| country: | Tanzania |
| departures: | Departures from Arusha every Tuesday and Friday throughout the year |
| price: | From US $205 - US $240 (6 days) excluding flights. Price includes accommodation, meals, guides, all levies, local canoe hire. We can arrange flights from the UK |
the amazing things you'll be doing
Enjoy three days of a special authentic Barbaig Tribe cultural tour. The Barbaig is an authentic tribe off the tourist beaten track, conservative in their culture, nomadic, cattle rearing like the famous Maasai, with the women still wearing locally tanned ceremonial goatskin gowns. Mix freely with this tribe, see how they sew their goatskin gowns, how they locally pound and grind maize (corn) flour.
Learn and understand traditional practices and local customs. We will then spend one day with the Iraqw tribe to experience their cultural insights, joining in their local dances after a drinking spree, visiting local fish ponds and choosing fresh fish for dinner. Taste fresh honey from Tanzania Killer Bees Project with optional climbing of the Rift Valley Escarpment through a natural forest. Visit a Primary School or Secondary School where the children will participate in classes and mix freely with the students, play football and learn local dances. This is a great opportunity for children to interact and learn and appreciate another culture.
Learn and understand traditional practices and local customs. We will then spend one day with the Iraqw tribe to experience their cultural insights, joining in their local dances after a drinking spree, visiting local fish ponds and choosing fresh fish for dinner. Taste fresh honey from Tanzania Killer Bees Project with optional climbing of the Rift Valley Escarpment through a natural forest. Visit a Primary School or Secondary School where the children will participate in classes and mix freely with the students, play football and learn local dances. This is a great opportunity for children to interact and learn and appreciate another culture.
day-by-day itinerary
| Day 1: | Depart Arusha at 7.00 am for Katesh via Babati where you will meet your guide. Rest before sight seeing |
| Day 2: | Walk/drive to the Barbaig Village, visit Barbaig bomas (homes) with overnight in the Barbaig huts |
| Day 3: | More visits to Barbaig bomas leaving late afternoon for Katesh. |
| Day 4: | Transfer to Iraqw tribe for cultural insights |
| Day 5: | Transfer to Gorowa tribe for Cultural insights/Lake Babati canoeing and hippos |
| Day 6: | Travel back to Arusha at the end of the tour |
how this holiday makes a difference
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The visitors are interacting freely 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, the entire community benefits by having the 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. |
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