Tanzania Cultural Tour

As Tanzania is country with a wide cultural diversity, cultural normally includes visits to remote villages where one can expereince the rich and fascianting the African culture. Cultural tours are spread all over from the Northern regions such as Arusha, Manyara and Kilimanjaro, Southern regions consisting of Morogoro, Mbeya and Iringa as well as the Coastal regions made up of Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and Tanga.

Cultural tours does not only ends with visiting remote villages in Tanzania but may as well include visit to Tanzanian historical sites such as the Olduvai Gorge, Amboni caves, Kondoa Irangi, Kilwa, Stone Townn and Bagamoyo town as well.

Maasai Bomas in Ngorongoro

The Maasai are a proud people that are fiercely loyal to their cultural beliefs, and they are one of the most well-liked ethnic groups in northern Tanzania. The Maasai are a pastoral people who reside in the Ngorongoro conservation area, an area multi-purpose land use where humans, their cattle, and wildlife cohabit and share the same protected ecosystem. In quest of pasture and water, the Maasai travel widely with their herds of cattle, sheep, goats, and donkeys.

While in Ngorongoro most of the guests on safari love to include a visit to a Maasai Boma. The Seneto Maasai Boma on the western slopes of the Ngorongoro Highlands about two hundred metres off the main road to Serengeti is another most famous cultural visitor spot. Another popular Maasai village is Irkeepus which is located in the Ngorongoro Highlands and a visit can be combined with a trek of Olmoti or Empakaai Crater.

Lake Eyasi Hadzabe and Datoga

Lake Eyasi is a very scenic soda lake found on the southern border of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a couple of hours drive from Karatu. This is a hot, dry land, around which live the Hadzabe people, often associated with the Khoisan languages in Southern Africa because of their click language. The Hadzabe are believed to have lived here for nearly 10,000 years and continue to follow hunting-and-gathering traditions. Also in the area are the Iraqw (Mbulu), a people of Cushitic origin who arrived about 2000 years ago, as well as the Datoga also Cushitic, the Maasai and various Bantu groups including the Nyakyusa, Nyamwezi, Chaga and Meru.

The Hadzabe, a hunter-gatherer tribe, live close to the shores of Lake Eyasi, as do the Nilotic-speaking Datoga tribe who are pastoralists. Visits to these tribes will include a visit to their homesteads, learning about their way of life, medicinal plants, and even animal tracking with bows and arrows with the Hadzabe hunters.