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Hadza tribe immersive experience

Duration
4 days
Price
£3,336 pp.
Location
Tanzania, Africa
Hadza Tribe Hunting

Trip Highlights

  • Environmentally friendly travel and accommodation
  • Spend time harvesting honey and foraging in the Yaeda Valley
  • Hunt with the Hadza tribe!

What's Included

  • All transfers and guides
  • All park fees, activties and community fees
  • All accommodation and meals

A very rare opportunity in today's world

Spend time with the Hadza tribe gathering berries, digging for tubers, harvesting honey, making arrows and learning to hunt during this incredible, immersive experience.

The Yaeda Valley is home to Hadzabe hunter-gatherer people. This incredible 4-day immersive trip gives you a unique opportunity to learn from the Hadza tribes by taking natural history walks with them, hunting with them and by visiting their camps.

This trip has been carefully set up to allow you to spend genuine time with the Hadza community - it is structured, but not staged! What the Hadza people would like, is for you as a visitor to take home an appreciation of their culture, not as an antiquated tradition disconnected from the modern world but as a valid part of it. This is particularly important to the Hadza tribes as they often experience severe prejudice and discrimination because of their lifestyle. During your trip, you will learn about how the Hadza survived gathering berries and honey, hunting and about their ancient traditions.

The Yaeda Valley where this Hadza tribe is based is a pleasing mosaic of open valley grasslands and rocky ridges punctuated by thousands of baobab.

***We are able to offer shorter versions of this trip and to add this to a safari or beach holiday***

Trip Itinerary

Day 1 Head to the Yaeda Valley

Your adventure starts today! You can depart from either Arusha, Karatu or Tarangire, and Manyara or Haydom Airstrip are also an option.

Your driver will collect you in a safari-kitted LandCruiser. Today you will have a long but interesting travel day through the rift valley, up the escarpment, over the Mbulu plateau and into the Lake Eyasi basin to camp in the Yaeda Valley. You will see an incredible range of scenery and animals enroute.

On arrival, you will be introduced to your Hadza hosts who will be in the camp with you for your entire stay. You will be staying in a comfortable, mobile camp which has minimum impact on the environment.

Day 2 Forage with the Hadza tribe

After breakfast in your camp, you will walk about an hour to a nearby Hadza camp with your Hadza hosts.

On arrival, you will receive introductions and take a brief tour of the camp before you head off with the women to dig for tubers and pick berries and baobab fruit (when in season). During this foray, you will be accompanied by the men who will be harvesting honey. Head back to camp for lunch. Afternoon activities include making arrows with the Hadza men, target practice and an optional short hunt. You'll also have sundowners with stunning sunsets and views!

Day 3 Hunt with the Hadza tribe

Day 4 Morning Hadza hunt

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Duration

4 days

Location

Tanzania, Africa

Price

£3,336 pp.

Price Includes

  • All accommodation and meals, local spirits.
  • All park fees, community fees and activity fees
  • Transport during the trip
  • Safari guide

Price Excludes

  • Single supplements
  • Flights to/from the Yaeda Valley
  • International flights

From £3,336pp based on 2 people sharing one vehicle and one double. Excludes international flights & transfers to Arusha.

From £2,059pp based on 4 people sharing two doubles and one vehicle. Excludes international flights & transfers to Arusha.

Community values are very important to the Hadza people, and their land is seen as a communal resource. Tourism is judged worthwhile only if it enhances community land and resource rights. In particular, tourism should not permit individuals to profit at the expense of the community. Tourist proceeds, therefore, go primarily to community accounts, though smaller fees (structured by the community) may be paid to local individuals who take part in a given tourist visit.

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January

January is mixed when it comes to weather, temperatures rise whilst the chance of rain and humidity increases. It is still a good time to go, as the rates are lower yet the game viewing is still excellent.

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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  • Migration is still in the Grumeti area, heading north.
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July

July is the start of peak season, temperatures reach up to 30 degrees and the surrounding land becomes drier and spotting game is becoming easier.

  • The migration is in the Northern Serengeti moving towards Kenya.
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August

August is peak season, with bush land drying out game spotting becomes much easier. If you want to experience Tanzania game at its best, August is the time to travel.

  • The migration still remains in the north.
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September

Peak season continues in September, the Northern circuit can be very busy, if you want to avoid crowds it's best to visit the southern parks.

  • The end of the migration is still in the north with herds on both side of the Kenyan and Tanzanian borders.
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October

Peak season continues into October with good game viewing in the Serengeti and southern parks.

  • The migration has now crossed over into Kenya.
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November

November is the start of the rainy season, the rains tend to be overnight so it is still a popular time to travel. During this month you can take advantage of low season rates.

  • Migration crossing over into the Serengeti can be seen a the Tanzania and Kenya border.
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December

Rains continue in December, whilst the temperature and humidity start to build. Venturing out on safari is generally good, with large game still easily spotted.

  • Migrating herds in the north travel south back to Ndutu.
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