HADZABE TRIBE

Discover the Hadzabe Tribe: Living Legends of Tanzania

Hadzabe Tribe Bushmen | Hunter-Gatherers

It is a once-in-a-lifetime experience walking, running, and hunting with the Hadza.

This cultural experience with the Hadzabe involves more than just a walking safari: hunting, foraging, and interacting with one of Africa’s last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes. Fabulous Image Expedition Ltd has a long-standing relationship with a fascinating group of Hadzabe people living close to Lake Eyasi’s banks.

Exploring Hadzabe Culture: A Journey to the Stone Age

One of our cultural tours in Tanzania is to visit the Hadzabe people. This will take you back to the Stone Age. The Hadzabe depend on hunting and gathering wild fruits and plants so that you will have the experience of a lifetime.

Therefore, many African visitors are familiar with the Masai people; the Hadzabe of Tanzania’s Lake Eyasi region is no less fascinating or representative of African culture.

Still leading the same hunter-gatherer lifestyle that has sustained their people for generations, the Hadzabe hunt using locally made poisons and ingenious camouflage.

Visitors to Tanzania can visit with these traditional people and witness a thrilling sunrise hunt to see how these hardy people have survived in the sometimes harsh Tanzanian wilderness for thousands of years.

Engaging with the Hadzabe: A Morning with the Hunter-Gatherers

However, a tour to Hadzabe starts early in the morning. You will drive 30-60 minutes from the lodge to reach the Hadzabe clan.

They will sit around the fire to warm up before their morning hunt.

At this time, they will be chatting, chanting, making new arrows, and smoking marijuana or tobacco. They will also like to offer you a pipe and smoke, but you will not offend them if you say no. They will demonstrate how they make fire with sticks, which they have been doing for thousands of years.

Experiencing Hadza Culture: A Journey into Hunter-Gatherer Traditions

These are friendly people so that you can sit with them too.

Learn how to make fire.

You can take pictures, interact with them, and talk to them, and we will guide you.

Hadza women are also friendly but not as charming as the men. I think men are more captivating because they smoke a lot, which makes them a bit high.

Day 1-2: Hadzabe Tribe Bushmen

HUNTING

Hunting starts around 7 AM, and a group of men (usually) take their bows and arrows and go hunting. Here, you will join them for hunting by following them. The Hadza eat almost every kind of animal, so they hunt anything they come across. They hunt birds, baboons, impalas, and other animals.

BUSHMAN SKINNING A DICK DICK

If the hunting is successful, they will make fire and BBQ. They will offer you a piece of meat; if you don’t want it, you can politely say no.

Participate in collecting fruits and wild honey gatherings, try your skills using a Hadzabe bow and arrow, and try your luck in a hunt. During the rainy season, they find a lot of honey, so sometimes they can harvest some while hunting. The hunting takes about 2 to 4 hours.

GATHERING

Hadza women picking berries. Gathering is another excellent activity that you can do with Hadza women. The women collect fruits, pick wild berries, and dig for tubers. You can join a group of women foraging. If interested, you can participate in this activity. You can help pick berries or collect fruits, which they greatly appreciate.

ARROW PRACTICING
Arrow practicing is an exciting activity as the Hadza are willing to teach you what they know/have.

Hadza Tribal Dance

Hadza involves a lot of dancing and singing, and most songs are about courage, life, and animals. People sing and dance whenever they are happy or when there is plenty of food. So the tour will conclude with traditional dancing.

DATOGA

Another excellent experience is visiting one of the Datoga families around Lake Eyasi. The tribe has different clans; some are blacksmiths, while others are pastoralists.

DATOGA BLACKSMITH

This one is exciting to visit as they use ancient blacksmith skills to make arrowheads, knives, spears, bracelets, rings, and handmade jewelry.

ARROWHEAD

You will see how they melt braces, copper, or aluminum and make arrowheads, knives, or spears.

DATOGA PASTORALIST
A tour of these people is very significant; you will visit a family of a husband and his several wives, as they are polygamous. The women from the tribe are beautiful and friendly; they will welcome you with charming smiles.

GRINDING MAIZE

Have you ever done this before? They will teach you how to grind maize with stones. Enjoy the Hadzabe Tribe Bushmen cultural tour in Tanzania.

End of 2 Day Hadzabe Tribe Tour