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THREE DAYS BARBAIG /GOROWA TRIBE/LAKE BABATI CANOE/ HIPPOS TOUR
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From the Arusha Country Bus Station, board a 7.00 am Mtei Bus toKatesh/ Singida via Babati where you are joined by a Guide holding a poster marked Joas Kahembe/...................to Katesh arriving Katesh around 1.30 pm.
Late lunch and thereafter walk 5km to Dumbeta/Gijega Barbaig Village for Barbaig cultural insights/contrasts. The Barbaig is an authentic tribe; still conservative on their culture; cattle rearing , warrior like the famous Maasai with the women still wearing traditional ceremonial locally tanned goatskin gowns. Dinner and overnight in the Barbaig huts
Day Two:
Breakfast and then interact freely with this Barbaig Tribe., see how the locally make/sew their goatskin gowns; how the locally pound and grind maize (corn) flour; We do not organize any local dances, but you can chance marriage, circumcision, burial and prayer rituals. But since these Barbaig are warriors we organize a mock fight.. Afternoon walk back to Katesh for dinner and overnight.
Day Three:
At 6.00 am board a Mtei Bus to Babati arriving around 9.00 am, late
breakfast and thereafter walk 2 km to Maisaka Village where you visit a
Gorowa Tribe Elder Story Teller on how they arrange their marriages; how they
treat a girl who gets pregnancy before marriage; prayer rituals and their origin.
Walk back, lunch, rest and thereafter, walk 1 km to
Lake Babati for local canoe rowing while viewing floating hippos. Walk back for
dinner and overnight.
Day Four
At 7.00 am board a Mtei Bus to Arusha at the end of the tour.
Price US$ 155.00/135.00 per person each of 1/3 persons respectively, inclusive accommodation, guide, meals, all levies; excluding local bus transport ($ 20.00 per person Arusha-Babati-Katesh-Arusha), drinks and tips to the guide.
Day Four is not included in the price because it involves traveling back to Arusha.
Optional Car Drive at own extra cost