HADZA AND DATOGA TOUR (bushmen)
The Hadzabe are a hunter-gatherer tribe that inhabits the Rift Valley in the vicinity of Lake Eyasi. The Hadzabe are a ancient community that still hunts as a main source of protein Like the forest Twa of the Congo basin forest and the Okiek and Ndorobo of Kenya. They live in communal camps that are built at different locations depending on the season and game availability.
We descend down the escarpment of the Rift Wall into the Lake Eyasi region to ChemChem area. It takes a while to locate a Hadzabe camp. When we arrive at the camp we join the people and their daily activities. We learn and participate in their day to day tasks: mending of the hunting bows, collection of herbs for medicinal uses or poisons for the arrows, hunts, firewood gathering, water fetching etc. Next day we spend the morning with the Hadzabe until lunch.
In the afternoon we visit a Datoga village. This pastoralist tribe was the barrier that stopped the southwards migration of the Maasai. We visit a traditional village, entering a traditional homestead, learn about the women's typical dress and scarification. We then walk with the herders. Sometimes a short walk is arranged on the beautiful lake shore. Nights are spent camping in our fully catered camp.
