You will be met at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi and transferred to a hotel in the Karen subburb of the city. The rest of the day can be spent at your leisure. A Tropical Ice courtesy vehicle and driver/guide will be available for visits to and around Nairobi. Evening briefing with your guide at the hotel.

Drive from Nairobi to Amboseli National Park with a picnic lunch en route, a game drive through the park may reveal Kilimanjaro peering through the clouds. The park is home to a healthy elephant population, you are also likely to see lion, cape buffalo, a variety of plains game, and countless species of birds. After the game drive, we come to our private camp situated within the Amboseli ecosystem. This camp is not only a welcoming oasis for us, but also serves to incorporate the Masai people to work towards preserving their pristine land for wildlife and visitors. Overnight in our camp.

Early morning game drive will unveil a completely unique view of the park and its wildlife. We will look for traces of the previous night's activity, as well as explore further into the park. We return to camp for lunch and a siesta. In the afternoon we may embark on a short walk and sort gear for the mountain.

Drive to the roadhead, passing through the border into Tanzania. After a picnic lunch we begin the hike up through Kilimanjaro's lower forests, this will take up the entire afternoon. Our first camp is located at 8,000 feet, just above the tree line.

This is a long hiking day that will take us on a traverse across the northern moorlands of the mountain. We will have a hot lunch along the way. In the afternoon, our trail will gently rise towards the northern shoulder of the second highest peak, Mawenzi. We will reach our camp at an altitude of 11,800 feet late in the afternoon.

This is essentially an acclimatisation day. A short hike directly up to our campsite brings us to the base the north face of Mawenzi. The rest of the day will be spent relaxing in camp, with the possibility of an afternoon acclimatisation hike in the vicinity of the camp. Altitude of the camp is 13,600 feet.

After breakfast we begin the long morning hike across "The Saddle" which links Mawenzi to the summit peak of Kilimanjaro, Kibo. The crossing of this moon-like landscape will take the entire morning. The Outward Bound Camp, at an altitude of 15,600 feet, will be reached in mid afternoon. The rest of the afternoon will be spent in the camp preparing for our attempt on the summit.

This is the longest day of the ascent. We will be awakened at around midnight and shortly afterwards we will begin the long climb to the crater rim of Kilimanjaro. This 2-mile journey will take approximately 6 hours to complete. Reaching the crater rim at Gilman's Point (18,600 feet) as the sun begins to rise. We will then continue clockwise around the crater to the highest point on the African continent, Uhuru Peak 19,340 feet. Weather permitting the summit should be attained at around 9.00 a.m. We then descend to Kibo Hut for lunch. The Saddle is then crossed in the afternoon, as we descend to our evening destination, our camp near Horombo Hut at 12,000 feet.

We descend the southern moorlands of Kilimanjaro which will take the entire morning and most of the afternoon. We will reach the National Park headquarters at Marangu in the late afternoon, thus completing our traverse of Kilimanjaro. We then drive for a short distance to the Kibo Hotel where we spend the night.

We embark on a scheduled flight to Maasai Mara National Reserve via Nairobi. Our vehicles will meet us at the airstrip and we’ll gamed-rive to our private camp in the Musiara section of the Maasai Mara, located in the most remote part of the Mara. Wildlife abounds here, and no doubt we'll hear the roar of lions and the whooping call of hyenas while we sit around our campfire in the evening.

We enjoy exploring the wonder of the Mara via a 4X4 Land Rover or Land Cruiser, Kenya's game country at its best. The grassy plains of this savanna landscape are dotted with occasional trees and an ever-present abundance of wild animals, while distant mountains and escarpments break the line of the puffball African sky. Return to our private camp after morning and early evening game drives.

The variety of animals in the Mara is extraordinary and we are sure to find all the classic African species here, including the surprisingly graceful elephants and aristocratic giraffes. As one’s time fuses with the landscape, we sharpen our eyes to observe the game that had gone unnoticed when we arrived the day before

After a morning game-drive, we take a scheduled flight to Nairobi. Our vehicles will take us to the hotel, where dayrooms await. Evening transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airpot.