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Coffee & tribal tour in Tanzania

country:Tanzania
departures:Departures from Arusha every Tuesday and Friday throughout the year
price:From US $1085 (13 days) excluding flights. Price includes accommodation, meals, internal transport and taxes. Prices are based on groups of 10 to 20 people travelling together.
 
the amazing things you'll be doing
This tour involves 4 days of a special authentic Barbaig tribe cultural tour, an educational coffee experience and a wildlife safari.

The Barbaig is an off the tourist beaten track authentic tribe, conservative in their culture, nomadic, cattle rearing like the famous Maasai, with the women still wearing locally tanned ceremonial goatskin gowns. Mix (interact) freely with this tribe, see how they sew their goatskin gowns, how they locally pound and grind maize (corn) flour, hold interviews with men and women on how the women manage sharing husbands and why. Chance marriage, circumcision, prayer rituals.

You will also spend 6 days on a coffee product educational safari learning something about the coffee product at source which you always take at breakfast and breaks without knowing even the coffee plant and the processes it undergoes before it reaches your cup. Know what makes a good /bad quality coffee, compare the export /import prices. Taste the different cup qualities which determine the prices.

At the end of your holiday, spend 3 days on a wildlife camping safari chancing all the big five in free range.
day-by-day itinerary
Day 1:Depart Arusha for Katesh, sight seeing /mountain regitration, with overnight at Katesh
Day 2:Walk to Dumbeta/Gijega for Barbaig Village for Cultural Insights tour
Day 3:Mt. Hanang Trekking
Day 4:Lake Babati Hippos/Gorowa Cultural Insights
Day 5:Depart for Arusha/visit Arusha Coffee Estate
Day 6:Moshi small Coffee Farmers
Day 7:Tanzania Coffee Research Station/Small coffee farms
Day 8:Tanzania Coffee Curing Company
Day 9:Tanzania Coffee Board / Coffee Tasting Department
Day 10:The Coffee Auction
Day 11:Visit Lake Manyara Park
Day 12:Visit Ngorongoro Crater Park
Day 13:Visit Tarangire Park
how this holiday makes a difference
The visitors are interacting with the local community thereby breaking the racial barriers and hitherto black/white colonial hangovers. Through cultural exchange interviews, both visitor and host learn more about the cultural contrasts, and how the men manage many wives without the usual love hostilities. The men/women will tell/explain the benefits of marrying many wives and traditional reasons of allowing children outside marriage.

The visitor will learn more about real African Rural life as lived by ordinary people in the rural areas and know Africa in its real perspective compared to what is depicted in the International News Media. Through service charges to service providers the local women ' guides, family elders/fathers, children in the community earn direct income from tourists, hitherto denied them because of being outside the traditional wildlife tour routes. Through the Village and Local Government Levies and Project Work, the entire community benefit by having the hitherto compulsory contribution project works completed through our programmes. By strictly adhering to proper environmental codes and health conduct throughout our programmes the community gradually psychologically adopt better environmental protection and improved health standards.

Through the Coffee Safari, Tanzania Coffee will be promoted in different coffee consuming countries thus increasing sales with improved prices. We anticipate Coffee Buyers/importers/dealers will join this programme and thus always pick the coffees from these farms for purchase thus benefiting the coffee growing community.

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