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Enjoy a unique tribal experience on this short tour to Lake Eyasi, where you will explore the area's wilderness and greenery while meeting the Hadzabe and Datoga tribes. Learn about their lifestyles and cultures with the help of your tribal guide, including how they hunt, track wildlife, and make fire. You will also visit the Maasai market to meet Maasai people, see their crafts, and taste their food, including the famous Maasai BBQ.
Enjoy a Hadzabe tour walking into the bush with the only hunter-gatherers remaining in the East African region.
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Day by day
Meet your tour guide in Arusha and depart for Lake Eyasi.
Engage with the elusive Hadzabe tribe and learn about their fascinating culture.
Enjoy a picnic lunch and visit the Datoga village for an immersive tribal experience.
Have dinner and stay overnight at Lake Eyasi Campsite.
Start early with your bushman guide to meet a group of resident Hadzabe people. Enjoy a Hadzabe tour walking into the bush with the only hunter-gatherers remaining in the East African region. The Hadzabe speak a click-based language and move their encampments with the seasonal movements of the wildlife.
Your guide, a member of the group, will explain how they hunt, track wildlife, make fires, and even take honey from bees' nests before introducing you to his people and showing you their customs and way of life.
In the afternoon, travel to the Maasai market and appreciate the spectacular views. Hundreds of Maasai gather each Thursday afternoon at the bustling Maasai market, where guests have the chance to see their crafts and taste their food, including the famous Maasai BBQ. A larger, village-wide market takes place on the 22nd of each month.
In the late afternoon, drive back to Arusha for the overnight.
Meals included: Breakfast & Lunch. No accommodation is included on this day.
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One-night accommodation
Guide fee
Village entrance fee
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The price for children is 300 USD per child.
Your cultural tour will directly support the villages' desire to become more self-sufficient, preserve their indigenous culture, and aid environmental conservation efforts.
For cultural tourism, Kitonga Tours Company is free to take you to the tribe of your interest, but on this page, only three tribes are presented in summary.
HADZABE: In the morning, clients will join the Hadzabe, interact with them, and learn how to make fire using two dry sticks, a method that has been used for thousands of years. The Bushmen will teach them how to use their bow and arrows, collect tubers, roots, and fruits with the women, or join the hunting men. Hunting is done in the morning, and clients will follow the hunters to see how it is done. Honey gathering is also part of the experience, but depending on the season, it takes place during the rainy season.
DATOGA: Once they are done with the Hadzabe Bushmen, you will join the other tribe called the Datoga, who resemble the Maasai culture. These people are also blacksmiths, making weapons such as arrowheads and knives, which they trade with the Bushmen. Tourists can see how they make these items - arrowheads, spears, knives, bracelets, and more - grind maize with stones, and melt brass, copper, or aluminium.
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Your 2 days finish where they began, in Arusha.
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