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Since ancient times, these tribes have traveled to different locations in Tanzania, where they have recognized communities and kept their culture intact. Tanzania Cultural Tours offers the option of meeting and engaging with these fascinating people. Tanzania Cultural Tours is a beautiful journey of discovery that will educate you about the lifestyles, cultures, and traditions of the various tribes in the country.

Cultural and Historical Tours Tanzania offers you the chance to interact with the local people you visit and participate in various cultural events like dancing and singing. Please take as many pictures as you want so that you can keep these memories forever. Tanzania has an array of cultural treasures.

Some Famous Tanzania Cultural Tours

Swahili Culture:

In Tanzania, tribal groups are determined to preserve and protect their identity from passing along their values to upcoming generations. As tribes interacted more, they started adopting practices, thus creating Swahili culture. Typically, young children are taken to schools outside their communities to meet children from other cultures, where they interact in Swahili and adopt a more familiar culture.

Olduvai Gorge:

Explore archaeology, history, and the ancient ancestry of early humans at Olduvai Gorge. For anyone interested in human ancestry and its past, the Olduvai Gorge is a must-see. It is also fascinating from a wildlife perspective since many plants and animals live in the gorge and surrounding area. It is known for its wealth of fossils, including human and animal fossils, carved by water along the southern Serengeti Plain. Oldupai refers to the wild sisal that grows in this area and surrounds the gorge. There are several shows in the museum, including a cast of the infamous Laetoli footprints, along with other fossil bones and stone tools. Any journey from the Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater can include the trip.

Hadzabe Tribe:

In northern Tanzania, the Hadza is a modern hunter-gatherer person. The tribe, which has about 1,300 members, is one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes in Africa. Eyasi Valley and nearby hills are home to the tribe. They have been living in Tanzania for over 50,000 years. The way they live hasn’t changed much over the years, so they still hunt wild animals and gather wild fruits without shelter. Their primary hunting weapon is the bow and arrow.

Kilwa:

A quiet fishing village today, Kilwa was once a busy trading hub linking the goldfields of Zimbabwe with Persia, India, and China. Today’s ruins of this settlement and Songo Mnara nearby rank among the most famous Swahili building groups on the East African coast. Kilwa Kiswani can only be visited with a charted boat and a Kilwa Island tours Guide Association guide.

Mto wa Mbu:

120 km (74 miles) are needed to reach the village of Arusha from Arusha; a tarred road connects it. Regular buses connect the town with Arusha, and visitors can also fly in from Lake Manyara airstrip. Mahamoud, Kirurumu, and Magadini rivers are the primary water sources in the area.

Mto Wa Mbu Village offers visitors a unique experience. It is home to around 120 tribes – a melting pot of cultures, languages, and customs unique to Tanzania. The village is situated in the middle of the Northern Safari Circuit so that you will enjoy a welcome respite from your safari activities.

Located in the Great Rift Valley, Mto Wa Mbu Village is close to Lake Manyara and Tarangire National Park. A beautiful landscape surrounds the village, which is located along the main road leading to Ngorongoro Crater and Conservation Area and Serengeti National Park.

Ng’iresi village:

On Mount Meru’s green and steep slopes, Ng’iresi village is located 7 kilometers from Arusha. The villagers of this village are all Wa-arusha farmers. Wa-arusha is members of the Maasai but slowly moved from pastoralism to agriculture. Some Wa-arusha still lives in old-style bomas, while other build stone homes; some rely on the cows, while others cultivate large plots of land. This village is the perfect example of changes between traditional and recent African life.

Mulala Village:

Visitors to Mulala Cultural Tourism can see almost 100 family farms on a community-owned estate. Arusha, Tanzania, has aattractive landscape surrounding the building on the southern hill of Mount Meru. This village is above sea level at roughly 1600-1700 meters. Banana farms are part of the estate, coffee plantations, banana farms, honey harvesting, and cheese manufacturing. It offers spectacular views of Mount Kilimanjaro and lush vegetation, as well as a forest reserve.

Maasai Tribe and their Bomas:

Maasai are nomadic and pastoralist people inhabiting sizeable areas of northern, central, and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania across the border. A famous African Tribe. With their origins in the Masai Mara Game Reserve and the Amboseli Hills near Tanzania’s edge, the Maasai are one of East Africa’s most well-known ethnic groups. Traditionally, a boma is a collection of small huts made of cow dung,

Mud, and other materials. Maasai stick beds are in the houses, but it’s one of the most comfortable ways to survive in the bush with a blow-up mattress and mosquito net. A thorny bush fence surrounds the boma, protecting the tribe and cattle from other tribes and predators. Maasai villages can move on quickly as the huts are easy to put up and maintain. It is not uncommon for Maasai towns to become less nomadic as time passes. Traditionally, a boma is a collection of small huts made of cow dung, mud, and other materials. The houses have traditional Maasai stick beds, but it’s one of the most comfortable ways to survive in the bush with a blow-up mattress and mosquito net.

Iraqw Tribe:

Two thousand years ago, the Iraqw (not to be mistaken for Iraq) settled in the Ngorongoro area. They speak a Cushitic language originating in Ethiopia. When they decided in Ngorongoro, the Iraqw probably had cattle and cultivated millet. The people of the Ngorongoro Highlands, which spread south to Lake Manyara, are mainly farmers.  Houses built completely underground are unique to the Iraqw people. To defend themselves from the Datoga tribe to the west, the Iraqw people are believed to have adopted this house-building method. Visitors can now tour the underground houses and learn about their way of life. On any route from Ngorongoro Crater to Lake Manyara, you can do the Iraqw Underground House tour while staying at Bougainvillea Lo