Built for student groups, families, friends and individual travellers who want more than a game drive, this six-day programme puts you inside a Maasai community rather than alongside it — carrying water, smearing a boma, beading with the mamas and learning enough Swahili to be useful.
The tour is facilitated throughout, with structured reflection sessions each evening, and it finishes with a safari so nobody goes home without seeing the Big Five. Group sizes, room configurations and the safari package are all set to suit your party.
Airport transfer and check-in, followed by orientation with your facilitators and fellow group members, an introduction to Maasai culture and a first meeting with the host community.
A morning water-collection walk with local families brings home what daily water access actually costs in time and effort. The afternoon is spent helping repair a traditional boma using natural materials.
Explore a rural Tanzanian market and practise your Swahili on real transactions, then join a beading workshop with the Maasai women, ending with traditional storytelling around the campfire.
A savannah hike with a Maasai guide reading tracks and plants along the way, hands-on training with traditional weapons, and a celebration dinner with group reflections.
A full game drive in the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater or Tarangire depending on your chosen package, focused on finding the Big Five, followed by an evening back at camp.
Facilitated group discussion on the week's experience, a final opportunity to engage with the community, then the afternoon transfer to the airport.
Group rates depend on party size, room configuration and which safari package you choose — Ruby (Tarangire), Emerald (Ngorongoro), Diamond (Tarangire, Ngorongoro & Serengeti) or Pearl (with a Zanzibar beach extension). Send us your numbers and dates for a full costing.
Request a QuoteThe programme is based in the Maasai communities around Arusha, finishing with a safari in Tarangire, Ngorongoro or the Serengeti depending on your package.
School, university, church or family — tell us your numbers, dates and learning goals and we'll build the programme around them.
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