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(image) – Inside Ntondolo Cave
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(image) – Enjoying local flower gardens
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Forest
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Established in June 2008 with the Vision of Making Kilimanjaro a green village through tourism, people of Machame-Nkweshoo welcomes you to explore Cultural and Natural Heritage of Wachagga ethnic group that lives on the green slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. – During your visit, you will enjoy beautiful landscape with great valleys, deep gorges, rivers, natural forest and local agricultural activities on small farms. On the other hand you will interact with...
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Myths
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(image) – Participating in local vergetable gardening
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Take a walk to Nkosalulu water falls in Makoa river that flows from Mt Kilimanjaro forest. The river with it waterfalls is surrounded by banana and coffee farms where visitors will see the indigenous people farming by traditional means.
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‘Get a taste of Kalali market’ – A walk through a local community market on Monday and Thursday will give you a good perspective on how Machame people live, eat and interact to each others. This tour will give you an insight into local economy and daily life activities of Wachagga people.
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These are massive underground tunnels (some caves reaching several kilometers) dwellings where the Chagga tribes hide from Masai warriors during inter-tribal wars. Appreciate the architectural designs of the caves and listen to stories on how they were effective as hiding tunnels. You will get the full story of this war and the caves from our experienced guide when you arrive at the cave
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An opportunity to visit Local Primary Schools (age 7-15) and Secondary Schools (age 15-20) You will be able to integrate with both pupils/students and teachers in classrooms and outside.
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An opportunity to visit places where first German Missionary to Machame area visited many years ago. Explore some of the remaining memorial stones some put in place by Mr Johannes Rebmann who came to Machame around 1840s where they built the first church in the area. Get an insight on how these missionaries worked to expand the missionary tasks in other parts of Kilimanjaro and the rest of Tanzania. Take a round walk to explore the whole route of the missionaries in the area and enjoy...
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Walk through coffee and banana farms to learn how coffee is grown, harvested and prepared into a cup of coffee in local people’s style. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn local skilful practices of preparing the best quality Arabica coffee using traditional ways. While drinking a locally prepared cup of coffee, you will also be getting stories of how local farms are managed and different ways of preparing and processing coffee
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