Departing Nairobi in your shuttle coach, you travel to your hotel via Tanzania's safari capital, Arusha. Your overnight stay in Moshi is at the Springlands Hotel.

The shuttle bus will deliver you to the hotel, where you will be met for your briefing and pre-departure meeting.

After an early start to get to Kilimanjaro National Park, you climb through rainforest for your 1st night on this awesome mountain.

Your first hut is set in a forest clearing at an altitude of 2,745m.

Leaving the rainforest behind, you round the base of the Maundi Crater, then hike through beautiful open moorlands.

Today's hike is about 6 hours and gives you time to acclimatise a little more in preparation for your ascent to Africa's highest peak. Tonight you sleep at an altitude of 3,660m in A-framed huts set on a small plateau.

Today you enter the stark Alpine desert habitat. Trekking over the 'saddle' between Mawenzi and Kibo peaks, you arrive at the Kibo hut, at an altitude of 4,701m .

Be sure to get to bed early as you still have some way to go before sunrise in your final ascent to the summit tomorrow.

A very early morning climb takes you via Gilman's Point, on the rim of the crater, to Uhuru Peak.

Gaze over Tanzania and Kenya from Africa's highest point as the morning sun allows you to take in this magnificent sight.

Leaving Uhuru Peak, you descend Kilimanjaro to Horombo Hut (5,700m) for a well-deserved and albeit tired celebration.

Your last day on Kilimanjaro takes you via the Marangu Gate back to your hotel.

Today's hike is about 6 hours and, together with the memory of yesterday's achievement, you can look forward to some good food and a hot shower at the end.

A morning departure in your shuttle coach from Moshi takes you back to Kenya's capital by late afternoon, where your safari comes to an end.