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In the hot, dry area around Lake Eyasi, live the Hadzabe (also known as Tindinga) people who have been in-residence" for around 10,000 years.

Anthropologically, albeit distantly, related to the San Bushmen of the Kalahari, the Hadzabe possess a thrilling ‘click’ language and the precise hunting skills of the bow and arrow along with their food gathering traditions.

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A consistent stream of budding newly graduated anthropologists report that they are approximately 1500 true Hadzabe families living traditionally – nomadic and happily feasting upon baboons and other small game. The term ‘family’ is used loosely and encompasses a free-living society, where there is space you are welcome to sit and eat or lie down and sleep.
After night-long discussions amongst the men of the Hadzabe, a pre-dawn departure for hunting often follows with game meat on the menu. The women remain in the ‘camp’ preparing freshly collected ‘berries’ and tending to the children – who are more often than not, efficient hunters and gatherers by a tenderly young age, leaving only the very young at home with the women. The absence of fresh water is common-place and a selection fresh fruits and vegetables rare but against a modern nutritionists recommendations – they are surviving.

In these southern arid areas of the Great Rift Valley outskirts there are also other tribes that live near the Hadzabe but do not possess a similar culture – the Iraqw (Mbulu) are cattle-loving pastoralists like the Maasai that are also in the area with various other Bantu groups. There are no known serious conflicts said to have occurred in recorded written history between the tribes, only perhaps amongst themselves.

Trip Starts:

Kilimanjaro International Airport

Trip Ends:

Kilimanjaro International Airport

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