Cultural Tours
Hadzabe,click speaking tribe.(Bushmen)
The Yaeda Valley is home to Hadzabe hunter gatherer people. The focus to visit this area is to learn and practice a real life of the Hadzabe tribe. This is a very special experience in this day and age since other tribes have lost their ancestors way of life to western culture.The Hadza are such fun people to be with and their bush skills are really amazing. The hunting method using bow and arrow is the oldest one,but only that, the jelly(like venom of black mamba) after boiling the roots of special trees on tip of the arrow make the animal to sleep but the meat is safe not poisoned. The country is a pleasing mosaic of open valley grasslands and rocky ridges occupied by thousands of baobab home to Hadzabe, African bees,snake and rodents.
In cooperated village communities (Datoga pastoralists (Black smith)and Iraqw/Iramba) shares the valley in different activities such as farming.
tourism has played a huge role in bolstering the self identity of Hadza who generally face severe prejudice due to a hunting and gathering lifestyle.Their number is getting smaller and smaller due to different factors.
The Iraqw(Cushites)Tribe.
The Iraqw people inhabit the Mbulu Highlands south and west of the Ngorongoro Crater, where they have formed a very intensive agro-pastoralist livelihood. The tribe entered to Tanganyika almost 530 years ago coming from Ethiopia through eastern great rift valley settled in Engaruka,Ngorongoro crater for a while and chased away by Maaasai Tribe
Deep valleys, terraced fields, houses perched on peaks or clinging to the edge of cliffs are typical to the enchanting landscape. Due to the high population density, and farming most of the native forest has been cut-down for agriculture or to plant non-native trees for fuel and building material. However the Nou forest is a protected forest.
The forest sounds like a forest from “nowhere” and indeed, it is an isolated little visited remnant of montane (highland) forest on the Mbulu plateau. The forest is the source of Yaeda,endayaya and Nambis rivers where Hhaynuu waterfalls is formed.
The highland forests rarely have the large mammal densities of the Savannah though there are still a few elephant using the area. But the old growth forest plants and trees are great and there are birds and critters one will not easily see elsewhere e.g. Olive Flanked Robin Chat . A visit to Nou integrates cultural interaction with walking and exploring this enchanted forest.The high elevation, cooler temperatures, fresh air filtered through a massive green canopy of leaves make this often a great place to spend a day or two for walking, learning forest ecology and a bit about the surrounding Iraqw people who are our hosts and guides while in the area. While in Tlawi clients will experience how to manufacture local red tiles for roofing , cooking pots using clay soil.Go fishing in lake Tlawi ,visit school,local original house and Catholic church built back to 1911 .