Let's go to the village

A great authentic experience! So much to do, but at a relaxing pace. Walk through the villages and interact freely with the locals.

Twende Kwetu Kijijini

Visit the Chagga underground tunnels, waterfalls (walk and swim), lunch, coffee farms, de-husk roast and crush your own coffee and drink it. Tour an amazing live museum. Oh, and a stop at a banana beer bar on the way “home”.

Marangu Cultural Tour

Highlights

Get the real feel of local life.
Delicious home-cooked meals in an authentic Chagga house.

Waterfalls
Explore the natural beauty of the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro to the waterfalls

Chagga Live Museum
Include a reconstruction of a thatched Chagga house with livestock inside, traditional Chagga tools, farm equipment, ropes made tree bark, genealogical history of the Chagga etc

Colorful Local Market
Marangu is the largest market for the sale of bananas in the country.

Chagga Blacksmiths
Learn about age-old indigenous tools made of iron. These include hoes, machetes etc.

Banana Beer
Drop into a local bar (Chagga bar) and drink the traditional “mbege” drink made from millet and banana.

Mt. Kilimanjaro Viewpoint
On clear day you can get magnificent views of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Underground Tunnels
Traditionally used by the Chagga people to hide from the enemies, the caves have partitions like kitchen, sleeping room, mortuary, livestock and ambushing chamber.

Coffee and Banana Farms
Majority of villagers are subsistence farmers, practicing cultivation on crops like coffee, banana, beans, yams, et

Marangu Cultural Tour - Waterfalls
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