Kahawa Shamba Cultural Tour
Kahawa Shamba Cultural Tour is a guided amazing Moshi excursion to a village coffee production on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Kahawa Shamba is a Kiswahili word meaning Coffee Farm.
The tour includes pick up/ drop off at your hotel, a 3 hour village walking tour, end-to-end coffee production the “traditional way”, full traditional lunch, and an expert local guide.
The guides are usually from from one of the villages engaged in this cooperative coffee production. They are extremely knowledgeable both about the coffee production process and about the plants, animals, and life in the area.
The guide takes you to one of the village home, where you are welcomed by the family and a short briefing about your activities for the day follows. You then get to pick the coffee beans, mill them to remove the coffee cherry, separate the dried husk from the bean, roast the beans, ground them, and enjoy the final product.
There after you walk through the village through the plantations and see how the coffee plant is integrated into the forest/ farms. Then follows lunch prepared lunch with the farmer’s family. The tour takes you to Kilimanjaro region – 30 minutes from Moshi town.
The farmers are members of Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union. The farmers are members of one of the oldest cooperative movements in Africa – Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union (KNCU). The objective of Kahawa Shamba project is to create an additional income to her farmer members from the existing tourism industry in Kilimanjaro.
The farmers are well trained to host the tourists in their respective villages.
Main Activities during coffee tour include;
* Coffee berry picking
* Coffee drinking at the farm
* A locally prepared lunch at the farm
* An excursion to a nearby coffee farm
* Processing of the coffee from bean to cup
* Single origin coffee packets are available for sell at the farm
* Explanation about organic coffee farming and Fair-trade standards
Kahawa Shamba Cultural Tour Prices
Kahawa Shamba Cultural Tour Prices Include:
Lunch Box + Drinking water + Price per person + Pick-up from your hotel in Arusha/Moshi and drop-off to your hotel & Professional English speaking guides. All are experts in African wildlife, culture, and tour guiding, many of who speak other European languages
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31st December 2024 |
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Notes
* The project site is located in Uru West villages, Moshi Rural district, Kilimanjaro region – Tanzania
* The coffee tour is informative and ethical in its use of the local community with a proportion of the profit going back to projects such as local dispensary’s
Kahawa Shamba Cultural Tour Prices Do Not Include:
* Tips or gratuity
* Travelers Insurance
* Communication charges
* Minimum of 1 person required
* Visas, international airfares and airport taxes; meals
* Sightseeing not included in the package; optional activities
* Personal expenses such as transfers to/ from the airport (supplement airport transfer cost applies for tours starting from the airport)
Booking & Reservations Kahawa Shamba Cultural Tour Contact
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Email: info@africanspicesafaris.com
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