6 Days Hadzabe Ancient Culture

Meet a responsible travel Africa guide at Kilimanjaro International Airport. You will be transferred to your lodge/ Home stay in Arusha Town followed by short brief about the adventure then dinner and overnight.

After breakfast, the driver will pick up from the lodge and drives you to Longido then to west Kilimanjaro / Sinya (Enduimet Wildlife Management Area (WMA)) arriving about noon for lunch then evening game drive and followed by dinner under the African sky. We will stay in the tents at the Sinya Camp. West Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania is bordered in the north by the famous Amboseli National Park in Kenya, in the east it is shadowed by the majestic Mt Kilimanjaro and towards the southwest lie Arusha National Park and Mt. Meru.

The area is home to the nomadic Maasai people who live with their cattle among the wildlife. Most of the area is made up of open savannah, mineral-rich flat pans, acacia woodlands and flat grass land and there are several small mountains that range in height from 1000m to 2000m

Walking safaris are a great way to get up close to the local flora and fauna and at West Kilimanjaro visitors can hike with a Masai warrior, exploring the plains and woodlands. In the evening you will visit a Maasai boma and experience how this tribe live. For those wanting to get an even more unforgettable experience why not spend one night at a Maasai boma and get a sense of how this semi nomadic tribe live and co-exist with nature.

After breakfast, our guide will help on packing all the luggage’s and ready to depart to Lake Natron continue off-the-beaten track to Lake Natron following the Rift Valley Escarpment northwards. Your drive passes through typical Masai land and soon Oldonyo Lengai – the holy mountain of the Masai will appear in the distance, far from the beaten track, you will find the Maasai’s Mountain of God— Ol Doinyo L’Engai.

Enjoy a guided bush walk to Lake Natron, whose shores shimmer in pink as thousands of flamingos come to breed on the alkaline lake. After animals die in the lake, their carcasses are preserved through calcification as they dry, resulting in petrified “mummies” of birds and bats. Lake Natron in Tanzania is one of the most serene lakes in Africa, but it’s also the source of some of the most phantasmagorical photographs ever captured — images that look as though living animals had instantly turned to stone. Alternatively, you can choose to wander to the nearby waterfall to take a refreshing bath.

After breakfast, you will head to Lake Eyasi. It is one of the few places left in Africa where tribal life remains relatively untouched by regional development. The Hadzabe have called Lake Eyasi home for over 10,000 years, and still keep their hunter/gatherer lifestyle; making them one of the last bastions of ancient African tribal life. The Hadzabe live in caves and they don’t wear clothes per se; they prefer wearing small bits of animal skin to cover their private parts. Their community is endangered because commercial production has taken most of their land away. Upon arrival, Afternoon check into your lodge and later evening you will go to meet the bushmen and organize activities deepen with them.

Early in the morning you will go with Bushmen for Hunting and experience how they hunt and kill animals for food and then later back for breakfast, after breakfast. You will proceed to the cliff ridges behind you drive through a majestic landscape, regularly meeting local residents and their beautiful cattle on our way heading to mto wa mbu for other local cultural experience of the day before you departing for Arusha to connect with your international flight back home.