Serengeti, the land of the Maasai, has such great emotional appeal that for many people it has become Africa, a feat of mental gymnastics that collapses a fantastically diverse continent onto the head of a pin. A typical question put to a traveller returning from safari is, ‘What language do they speak in Africa?’ This implies that the continent is one country and one people, the Maasai. To be sure Africa is jumble of some eight hundred ethnic groups and over one thousand languages and even more dialects.

Our cultural safari package addresses that problem from a deeply informed perspective.  In East Africa the Maasai can be seen in Kenya and Tanzania. On the Tanzanian side of the border we mostly visit the Maasai who are comparatively still holding traditions. These tribal people live in the famous Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Here Maasai pastoralists co-exist with wildlife including dangerous ones like lions, leopards, and hyenas but also giraffes as well as others wildlife. We visit a Maasai village where we meet a Maasai family and elder who briefs them on guide to the Maasai way of life.

Another significant cultural safari is cultural walk in the Rift Valley. We will walk to Balaa Hill near Mto-wa-Mbu, one of the most culturally diverse villages in Africa. Balaa Hill is a place with excellent view of the whole town. You can visit and see everyday life and culture of the many different tribes living in Mto-wa-Mbu. You will get an opportunity to see a sample of various tropical fruits and get a chance to taste the local brew, the banana beer. You can also walk to Miwaleni, where you will be able to walk across the African traditionally rice and banana plantations.

We will take you also to Lake Eyasi, home of the unique band of hunter-gathers namely Hadzabe. They are a clan of about 20 of the last remaining over 300 click speaking people. You will be able to spend time with them in their camp and see the mobile homes, clothing, adornments and weapons that are all fashioned from materials found in nature. You can try to make a bow and arrow. There will be an opportunities to accompany a hunting party for meat, a unique look into the tracking abilities of these hunter-gathers. There will also be time to accompany the women in search of edible roots and berries. After a brief introduction you start taking pictures.

To be sure the African continent is one of the culturally diverse continents on earth. There are Tusi and Hutus in Rwanda and Burundi, Karamoja in Uganda and the Swahili along the long costal strip of the blue Indian Ocean and inside the Islands of Zanzibar and Lamu. We make itineraries depending almost entirely on the ideas of our clients