Tour9
Day One:
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/Robert Michaud 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 they locally make/sew their goatskin gowns; how theylocally 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 Mt. Hanang registration, preparation, dinner and overnight.
.Day Three:
Breakfast and at 6.00 am board a Bus to Dareda disembarking at Dareda Centre. Walk 3km to Bacho Agricultural Centre where you visit a Fish Pond Project, a mixed coffee/banana farm, the Iraqw Tribe cultural insights /contrasts including the Iraqw tribe local dance after a local beer drinking spree. Here you can participate in the local coress. At night you participate in the
Tanzania Killer Bee honey harvesting tasting fresh honey from the honey combs.
Dinner and overnight at a local house.
Day Four
At 6.00 am walk 3 km to the road junction and 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. At the end of the tour
Day Five:
At 7.00 am board a Bus to Arusha at the end of the tour.
Price: US$ 220.00; peer person inclusive accommodation, meals, guide, all levies local canoe hire; excludes local bus transport US$ 10.00 , drinks and tips.
Day Five not included in the price as it involves traveling t