Duration: Full day
Starting point: Arusha
Ending point: Arusha
Your day begins with an early morning pickup from your hotel in Arusha. There you meet your professional guide, and then you set off for a nearby Maasai community.
Maasai Cultural Experience
When you arrive at the Maasai village, you meet members of the local community. First, your Maasai host introduces you to their traditional way of life. Your host also explains the importance of family, livestock, community, traditions and the surrounding environment. During your visit, you may:
- Visit a traditional Maasai boma
- Learn how the Maasai build their traditional houses
- Meet local Maasai families
- Learn about cattle and livestock keeping
- Discover traditional Maasai customs
- See traditional beadwork
- Then join in traditional songs and dancing
- Also learn about Maasai clothing and cultural symbols
- Finally, buy locally made handicrafts directly from the artisans
In addition, your guide explains how traditional Maasai life is changing in modern Tanzania.
Traditional Lunch
After the cultural experience, you enjoy a traditional Tanzanian lunch of locally prepared dishes. Depending on the location and arrangement, lunch may include rice, vegetables, beans, meat, bananas, chapati or other local specialties.
Coffee Farm Experience
After lunch, you continue to a local coffee farm or coffee-growing area. Northern Tanzania is famous for high-quality Arabica coffee, especially on the slopes of Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro. So at the farm, you learn about the complete coffee-making process.
From Coffee Cherry to Your Cup
Your local coffee host explains and demonstrates:
- First, how farmers plant and grow coffee
- How they care for the coffee plants
- Then how they pick the ripe coffee cherries
- How they separate and process the beans
- Next, how they dry the coffee beans
- How they roast coffee the traditional way
- After that, how they grind the roasted beans
- Finally, how to prepare fresh Tanzanian coffee
You also have the chance to join in the traditional roasting and preparation. Afterwards, you enjoy a freshly brewed cup of local coffee.
Coffee Tasting
Relax and enjoy your freshly prepared Tanzanian coffee. Meanwhile, you learn more about local coffee farming and why coffee matters so much to communities in northern Tanzania. You can also buy locally produced coffee to take home as a souvenir.
Return to Arusha
In the late afternoon, you begin your journey back to Arusha. Then we drop you off at your hotel or at another agreed place in Arusha. This marks the end of your Maasai Village & Coffee Cultural Experience.
