Cultural Tours Tanzania – Maasai

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Cultural tours in Tanzania especially to visit the Maasai people is one of the most exciting trips in Africa though Tanzania safaris are famed with visits to the vast safari parks like the Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro crater, Lake Manyara National Park, and the Zanzibar beaches leaving out the cultural tours.

However, on top of enjoying the wilderness adventures as well as the white sand beaches of the Indian Ocean tourists can learn about the diverse cultures and people who call Tanzania home, each culture is unique and defines a different group of people.

If you want to learn a little about the people of Tanzania, then a cultural tour is handy. This can be added to any kind of safari in Tanzania. Many villages around Arusha in northern Tanzania have been made accessible to visitors to have a glimpse of the authentic lifestyle of more than 120 tribes in rural Tanzania. These can be visited on short day trips from Arusha at affordable costs.

Cultural sites in Tanzania

Some of the popular cultural centers to visit during any Tanzania tour include Mto Wa Mbu multi-cultural village, Maasai Boma, and villages in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Lake Eyasi in the land of Hadzabe and Datoga, Ng’ireshi village of Waarusha tribe and the Mulalala village of Waarusha and Wameru tribes.

The Maasai are one of the most popular tribes in Tanzania and among the best-known local populations internationally. They are a Nilotic ethnic group in northern Tanzania and southern Kenya. The Maasai are popular and often visited because they reside near the many game parks within the African Great Lakes alongside their distinctive customs and dress code.

The Maasai speak the Maa language, part of the Nilotic language family that is related to the Dinka, Kalenjin, and Nuer. However, those living in urban areas speak the official languages of Kenya and Tanzania which are Swahili and English.

Maasai are pastoralists and have resisted the urging of the Tanzanian and Kenyan governments to adopt a more sedentary lifestyle. The Maasai people stood against slavery and lived alongside most wild animals with an aversion to eating game and birds.

The Maasai are traditionally polygamous and this is thought to be a long-standing and practical adaptation to high infant and warrior mortality rates. Their music traditionally consists of rhythms provided by a chorus of vocalists singing harmonies while a song leader sings the melody.

Cultural experience

Women chant lullabies, humming songs, and songs praising their sons. The exception to the vocal nature of Maasai music is the use of the horn of the Greater Kudu to summon morans for the Eunoto ceremony.

They do a lot of body modification with piercing and stretching of earlobes. Various materials are used to both pierce and stretch the lobes, including thorns for piercing, twigs, bundles of twigs, stones, the cross-section of elephant tusks, and empty film canisters.

Women wear various forms of beaded ornaments in both the ear lobe and similar piercings at the top of the ear. Amongst the male circumcision is practiced as a ritual of transition from boyhood to manhood.

Taking cultural tours in Tanzania is one way of learning about the people who treasure this land so much. It creates a different feeling to visit a place and understand the people which makes one appreciate the different kinds of people and what they believe in.

How long does it take to participate in a cultural tour in Tanzania

A cultural tour can be done just on a day tour or just in a few hours of your trip. In case a tourist needs to visit a specific group of people, it is advisable to communicate to your Tanzania tour operator to organize the trip and include it on the itinerary.

This is because the different trips are in different regions of the country and therefore interest in visiting them should be matched with the other tour be it wildlife viewing, birding, beach holiday, or any other form of adventure.

For tours beyond Tanzania, it is recommended to always take primate tracking tours as well as wildlife trips. East Africa has the best primate trekking trips and these include Uganda gorilla safaris, Rwanda gorilla tours, and chimpanzee trekking in Uganda, and in Rwanda.

These are unique forms of trips very different from the usual game drives in the popular national parks that host wildlife. All these trips can be customized by Acacia Safaris at any time of the year.

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