Arusha 1 Day Cultural Tour Oldonyo Sambu Arusha Region

Arusha 1-Day Cultural Tour Oldonyo Sambu, Arusha Region. This full-day tour departs from Arusha and visits Oldonyo Sambu, a local centre located 35 km north of Arusha, off the Nairobi/Arusha highway.

Our cultural tour enables guests to interact with local people, including the Masai, and explore their rich cultural heritage. While visiting the Masai village, you will have an ideal opportunity to take part in a Maasai dance and buy traditional Maasai jewelry, art, and crafts to take home as souvenirs.

Other activities include riding donkeys, horses, and camels; visiting the Oldonyo Sambu market; and short hikes up nearby hills for a glimpse of Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Meru, Mount Longido, and Mount Kitumbeine.

Time permitting, guests can visit the fields to watch livestock in the lush pastures, visit a holy fig tree, and learn about beekeeping. Optional visits to a Masai traditional healer, a watering dam, and a traditional meat camp are also available.

Arusha 1-Day Cultural Tour: Oldonyo Sambu, Arusha Region. This full-day tour departs from Arusha and visits Oldonyo Sambu, a local centre located 35 km north of Arusha, off the Nairobi/Arusha highway.

Our cultural tour enables guests to interact with local people, including the Masai, and explore their rich cultural heritage. While visiting the Masai village, you will have an ideal opportunity to take part in a Maasai dance and buy traditional Maasai jewelry, art, and crafts to take home as souvenirs.

Other activities include riding donkeys, horses, and camels; visiting the Oldonyo Sambu market; and short hikes up nearby hills for a glimpse of Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Meru, Mount Longido, and Mount Kitumbeine.

Time permitting, guests can visit the fields to watch livestock in the lush pastures, visit a holy fig tree, and learn about beekeeping. Optional visits to a Masai traditional healer, a watering dam, and a traditional meat camp are also available.

End the journey with a meal prepared by the Maasai women. Later return to Arusha.

Learn about the History of the Masai Tribe: It is thought that the Maasai’s ancestors originated in North Africa, migrating south along the Nile Valley and settling over much of the Rift Valley, as well as the adjacent region from Mount Marsabit to Dodoma.

Learn about Maasai Historical Changes: After settling in grazing lands, more than two-thirds of the Maasai’s land in Tanzania was taken away by the British and the Tanzanian government to create both ranches for settlers and Tanzania’s wildlife reserves and national parks.

Learn about Maasai Culture: To be a Maasai is to be born into one of the world’s last great warrior cultures. From boyhood to adulthood, young Maasai boys begin to learn the responsibilities of being a man (herder) and a warrior.

The role of a warrior is to protect their animals from human and animal predators, to build kraals (Maasai homes), and to provide security to their families.

Learn about Maasai Homes: Since the Maasai lead a semi-nomadic life, their houses are loosely constructed and semi-permanent. They are usually small, circular houses built by the women using mud, grass, wood, and cow dung. The men build the fences and sheds for the animals.

Learn about  Maasai clothes, dressing, and beauty: Though they traditionally dressed in animal skins, Maasai women wear beaded jewelry – everyday Maasai dress today, typical Maasai dress consists of red sheets (shuka), wrapped around the body, and loads of beaded jewelry placed around the neck and arms.

These are worn by both men and women and may vary in color depending on the occasion.

Learn about the Maasai faith and religion: In their traditional monotheistic beliefs, the Maasai god (Enkai or Engai) was manifested in two forms: the black god, benevolent, and the red god, vengeful. Today, most of the Maasai tribe is Christian, and a minority is Muslims.

Learn about Maasai food: All of the Maasai’s needs for food are met by their cattle. They eat the meat, drink the milk, and, on occasion, drink the blood.

Bulls, oxen, and lambs are slaughtered for meat on special occasions and for ceremonies. The by-products of the animals – skin and hides – are used as bedding, while cow dung is used for building (it is smeared on the walls).

Learn about the Maasai tribe today: The effects of modern civilization, education, and Western influence have not completely spared this unique and interesting tribe.

Some aspects of the Maasai tribe’s deep-rooted culture are slowly fading. Customs, activities, and rituals such as female circumcision and cattle raiding have been outlawed by modern legislation.

Maasai children now have access to education, and some Maasai have moved from their homeland to urban areas where they have secured jobs. It’s a culture that is eroding quickly.

Arusha 1-Day Cultural Tour Oldonyo Sambu Arusha Region Rates Include:

✓ Lunch
✓ Mineral bottled water
✓ Oldonyo Sambu Market fees and village fees
✓ Services of our professional English-speaking driver/ safari guide
✓ Round-trip transportation from Arusha to Oldonyo Sambu Market and back to Arusha

Notes

* Half-day tours are available as well: The half-day tour starts with a visit to a Maasai boma to see the traditional lifestyle of the tribe. Hike up the Oldonyo-Was Hill to view the surrounding plains and villages. Later head to the center of Maasai women specializing in ornament making and to the historic tower a reminder of colonialism. Trek to a holy fig tree and then to a water spring.

Arusha 1-Day Cultural Tour Oldonyo Sambu Arusha Region Rates Exclude:

* Tips or gratuity
* Travelers Insurance
* Communication charges
* Minimum of one 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)

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