Discover Tanzanian Culture
Would you like to get to know a little bit more about the Tanzanian culture and the everyday life
the Tanzanian get to know?
Choose a unique cultural experience tour from our programme and find out more trunks different about the everyday life of Tanzania.
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Olpopongi Maasai Village
Olpopongi Village is a Maasai Village between Arusha and Moshi. On arriving you will be welcomed by a Maasai who will guide you first through the Maasai Museum with an uncomparable collection of ancient Maasai items. After the past start to discover the present life of the Maasai people. Get a guided tour through the village, talk to the women and men about their everyday life. If you like accompany the Maasai warriors to graze the cattle and get to know their hunting methods.
You can choose between 3 options:
Option 1: Day Tour
Visit the Maasai Village, get a traditional Maasai lunch, get a guided tour through the Museum and the Maasai planes including explanation of hunting methods and traditional medicine.
Do during the day the same as on a day tour, in the evening you will have a traditional barbecue at the campfire. Overnight in a special guest house nearby the Maasai Boma with flushing toiletts and shower.
Option 3: Overnight - all inclusive
Here you get everything as in Option 2 plus afternoon tea and cakes, non alcoholic drinks included.
Income from tourist visits will be used towards developing educational projects.
Kahawa Shamba
Income from tourist visits will go into community developing project, e.g. schools.
Mto wa Mbu
Mto wa Mbu on the way from Arusha to the Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro and Serengeti is located in the Great Rift Valley. An ideal place to have a stop over and get to know about local farming and fruits. Take a bike tour along the shores of Lake Manyara and enjoy local lunch under banana trees.
Offers:
- A walk to through the farms in the green oasis at he foot of the Rift Valley
- A climb to Balaa Hill from where you can see the whole town
- A view into the culture of many different tribes living in the area
- A trip to the Miweleni Lake and waterfall
- Visits to development projects that aim at improving agriculture and start income generating activities for the farmers
- Explanation about the irrigation system
- Bike Tour along the shores of Lake Manyara
- Local lunch under banan trees
- Visit of Masai Boma
Income from tourist visits will be used to protect the environment, promote education and empower women in the village
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Mulala
The Mulala village is a typical rural setting on on the southern slopes of Mt. Meru and surrounded by spectacular scenery. It lies 1,600 -1,700 above sea level and you wind your way up the mountain through a maze of lush, green vegetation dotted with small farms. The women of Mulala have united in the form of the Agape Women’s Group. Through this group, they try to support economic activities of the members and start new income-generating projects, the Mulala Cultural Tourism Programme. When you arrive there, you will be warmly welcomed by the village women.
The Mulala women have organized the following:
- A tour of Mama Anna’s quaint cheese making unit, this being the starting point of the tour
- A nice garden where you can relax and enjoy a beverage or simple, traditional meal
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Guided tours criss-crossing coffee and banana farms, walking through the forest reserve or by the Marisha river bank and enjoying spectacular views of Mt.Meru and Kilimanjaro
Tours
AGAPE Women traditional activities tour (1 to 2 hours)
Visit the farms of the Agape Women’s Group. The women will explain their farming methods and show you the various economic activities they have started, like cheese-making, bread-making, flower seds, chilli growing and sewing.
Mount Meru forest reserve tour (1 to 2 hours)
Walk into the forest reserve and climb up to the foothills of Mt.Meru, crossing the beautiful natural forest, home to many species of birds and monkeys.
Marisha River Tour (2 hours)
Enjoy the scenic Marisha river bank, thick with tropical vegetation and home to colourful birds and primates. The guide will show you the most common medicinal plants used by the villagers.You continue to the Ziwa la Mzungu(white man’s lake) to see a big colony of fruit bats.
Lemeka Hills Tour (2 hours)
Criss-cross the coffee and banana farms and head up Lemeka Hill for breath-taking views of Mt.Meru and Mt.Kilimanjaro and of Maasai plains. Also visit the farms of Moses, the traditional healer of the village.
Income from tourist visits will be used to improve the school buildings, the kindergarten and the dispensary
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Afya Bora Projects
The projects of Afya Bora deal with the clarification about HIV/AIDS
with the Maasai in the Simanjiro District, as well as support of the education by nursery schools in the Maasai Bomas.
