Engasurai African Safaris: Tanzania Cultural Tourism Programme

An insight into Tanzania’s Living Culture

East Usambara

What you expect is personal space, you will discover what a rewarding experience it is to leave your safari car behind and hike on the slopes of Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro with Waarusha, Wameru and Wachaga guides through lush tropical vegetation, as their proudly explain their neatly cultivated shambas with coffee, bananas, fruits, vegetables and dairy farming.

Chagga Tribe traditional ceremonies

Whenever you like the towns of Mamba and Marangu are ready to receive their cultural tourists. A home visit to traditional Chagga house, opportunity to visit a wood carving school and walk past caves and historic sites reminiscent of the ancient Maasai/ Chagga wars.

Hiking

Spend part of morning or afternoon to discover all the steps it takes to grow, tender, pick, dry, roast, pound and brew aromatic coffee. You will be participating in the process yourself before you finally enjoy the real taste of this refreshing drink and can take home a very personal packet of Tanzanian coffee.

A Living Planet

In the pastoralist areas in the North, follow the Iraqw, Barbaig and Maasai footsteps to explore traditions and a way of life very closely linked to nature and wildlife. Hark the famous drum beats and let the Walambya of Ileje in Southern Tanzania interpret to you the music and dances they inherited from their ancestors.

Masai herding cattle
Exploring the savannahs on a camel’s back in close vicinity of wildlife is waiting you.

Enjoy the local cuisine of mama with all culinary variations of different places: pilau, makande, chapatti, machalari, maziwa lala, ugali, nyama choma and even the local brew. The melting cultures and long history of the Swahili people of coastal Tanzania will enchant you.

Mto wa Mbu Local Cuisine

Briefing in Lunch sites

Enjoying Mama's dishes

Local Brew: Banana Beer

Follow the sunset during a river boat ride or rowing on one of the lakes with legendary tales that will raise your hair, you will paddle between mangroves and sail with fishermen to pristine sandy islands and beaches. Climb the revered Oldonyo Lengai in the rift valley, taking a break in the cool shade of giant baobab trees.

Baobab trees

The friendly inhabitants of Lushoto, Tanzania’s ‘Switzerland’, will encourage you on as you hike through the Usambara mountains as will the Ndali on the Luswisi Mountain Ranges in south- western Tanzania. Listen to traditional healer’s diagnostic skills and get the right remedial prescriptions for your ailments.

Tanzania's Swirtzerland

The Usambara Mountains continue to draw a large number of tourists which has led to a boom into other tourism sectors in the Lushoto area.

Meet the Sukuma Tribe of Kahama

Be guided by Maasai warriors in a tour of Longido, carrying a spear in one hand let it astonishing yourself to learn lion combats, of course without guns or any modern weapons.