Notes from the field.
Hadzabe and Datoga culture at Lake Eyasi, Northern Circuit safari guides, Zanzibar and the practical advice our travellers ask for most.
Culture · 7 min
Who are the Hadzabe?
One of the last hunter-gatherer peoples in East Africa, and our neighbours at Lake Eyasi.
Culture · 6 min
Joining a Hadzabe hunt: what to expect
A pre-dawn start, a few hours of fast walking, and a morning you will talk about for years.
Culture · 5 min
The Datoga blacksmiths of Lake Eyasi
Neighbours of the Hadzabe who turn scrap metal into arrowheads, knives and jewellery.
Culture · 5 min
Hadzane: the click language of the Rift Valley
A language isolate with no proven relatives, spoken by fewer than 1,000 fluent people.
Culture · 6 min
Honey, birds and fire: hunting with a honeyguide
The greater honeyguide leads Hadzabe men to wild hives — a genuine wild partnership.
Culture · 7 min
How to visit a tribe without turning it into a show
Our rules for cultural visits: small groups, real consent, direct payment, no staging.
Culture · 6 min
A day in a Hadzabe camp, hour by hour
From the pre-dawn hunt to the evening fire, how the day actually unfolds.
Culture · 6 min
Maasai, Datoga, Hadzabe: who is who
Three very different peoples share the landscape between Ngorongoro and Lake Eyasi.
Culture · 5 min
Bows, arrows and the poison tree
How a Hadzabe hunting kit is made, from sinew bowstrings to desert-rose poison.
Culture · 4 min
Sunset on Lake Eyasi
A soda lake at the foot of the Eyasi escarpment, and the best hour of the day.
Safari · 6 min
How to combine culture and safari in northern Tanzania
Lake Eyasi sits within a day of Ngorongoro, Manyara and the Serengeti.
Safari · 5 min
Ngorongoro Crater in one day
260 square kilometres, thousands of animals, and the best rhino odds in Tanzania.
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