Tanzania Cultural Tourism
Culture Tourism
Tanzania is home to a great diversity of cultures and tribes. There are about a 100 different tribes each with it’s own unique language, religion & social system. Many of Tanzania’s tribes still cling to their time honored traditions and a staggering 25% of Tanzania’s population still follows African religions and beliefs. In our cultural programs, our clients visit and experience varied tribal cultures such as the hunter-gatherer Hadza people, the pastoral Datoga and Masai or agricultural tribes such as the Arusha, Chagga and Iraqw. We visit their homes, learn about the art of traditional healers and participate in local honey wine brewing. We might even be lucky enough to witness a traditional circumcision ceremony in one of the villages.
We offer two kinds of programs. Our tribal visits, which are short visits to various tribal villages, especially designed to be included in our normal safari itineraries, and our cultural programs which are longer immersion programs that offer the chance to live with African people and experience their life first hand while exploring their beautiful wilderness homes.
Tribal visits Our safari itineraries pass through the territories of many tribes and peoples. We believe that one of the most interesting things we can show our guests is the living culture of the traditional African communities we pass enroute to our safari destinations.
We operate exclusive tourism programs with various traditional groups that enable us to make short cultural visits to their villages and for a few hours or a day, taste their way of life. We visit homesteads, learning on their architecture, learn about daily chores. We make short hikes through the fields and pastures or go into the forest with a traditional healer to learn about medicinal plants.
View these example programs: Wachagga village tour , Wa-arusha village tour
Cultural programs Our cultural programs are longer, overnight programs, that offer the chance to live or travel with African people and experience their life style first hand while exploring their beautiful wilderness homes. Our programs are as varied as the tribal societies they visit. We go on walking and camel safaris with Masai people in the areas of Loliondo or Longido Mountain. These safaris really get off the beaten track and give maximum involvement in mingling with the local people and their ways of nomadic life. Overnight camping safaris reach the beautiful Lake Eyasi where we accompany Hadza tribes people while hunting and visit the villages of the proud and fierce Datoga herders. Our guides are all bilingual and will escort you into their wilderness homes, pointing out to you interesting medicinal plants, animals, birds, local customs and places of beauty.
View these example programs : Hadza & Datoga tour
Tanzania Maasai
Maasai Of Tanzania’s 120 ethnic groups, the Masai are among the best known to the western world due to their distinctive customs and dress, and their residence near some of the greatest collections of wildlife on earth. These traditionally nomadic herders and warriors live in Northern Tanzania and southern Kenya in the vast open spaces of the Great Rift Valley, sometimes called Masailand.