Cultural Tour
Come as a tourist, Explore like a Local.
Cultural safari experience with Heavenly Horizons put premium on real-life interactions, practical experiences, and non-staged insights into how different tribes still live on this wonderful side of the world. Our culture-based safaris are designed around non-touristic communities, introducing you to individual groups in an engaging and authentic manner. For this reason alone, even the longest safari can only scratch the surface of what this experience can bore you.
Through first-hand experiences by our local guides, a cultural safari can include anything from joining morning activities in a traditional Maasai village to spending time with Hadzabe hunter-gatherers near Lake Eyasi. Spend some time with the blacksmiths of Datoga tribe and learn how they melt metal to make arrowheads, or else go on a guided boma tour with a Maasai guide to gain insight into their traditional practices, social structure, and beliefs.
A cultural safari in Tanzania with us focuses on authentic and genuine interactions with some of the most ancients ethnic groups in the country, practical experiences, and honest insights into how these groups live today.
Famous Ethnic Groups
Hadzabe
Living in a society that is so wrenched away from the natural world, in favor of our modern world, that we have lost touch with almost all things that make us “Human”, there’re very few people alive today, who can truly say that they understand the ways of our ancestors.
The Hadza People, whose locality ranges from the Cradle of Humankind, deep in Northern Tanzania, near Lake Eyasi, are one of the very few societies anywhere in the world who still live by hunting and gathering.” The fact that there remains such a group of people in our day and age, is a testament to their skills of survival, and knowledge of their environment.
Datoga
A Datoga visit often combined with the Hadzabe tribe near Lake Eyasi, offers a unique cultural experience into a pastoralist society known for ancient metalwork (jewelry, arrowheads), traditional farming, and rich cultural traditions like dancing and storytelling, with visitors learning about their daily life, witnessing crafts like blacksmithing, and respectfully interacting with the community.
Tours typically involve being welcomed by the tribe, participating in activities like grinding corn, seeing how they forge metal, and understanding their deep connection to livestock and the land.
The Maasai
A tour to a Maasai boma offers a unique cultural immersion to learn about their traditions, involving tours of their houses, witnessing dances, seeing livestock, meeting families, and buying crafts, but it’s crucial to choose authentic tours near Arusha/Kilimanjaro and be respectful, especially by asking permission before photos and understanding commercial aspects to ensure a genuine experience.