Wanderlust Afrika

Hadzabe Bushmen Tribe

This experience is not for everyone!

It’s literally “Time Travel”!

Teleportation from the Modern Age to the Hunter-Gatherer era!!

 
[Original]   [Authentic]    [Cultural]   [Beyond the 5 Senses]    [Hypnotizing]   [An Age-changing experience]
 

“Go hunting” or “Spend few days” with them!

Experience their daily routine together.

Become their guest rather than like a tourist.

Sleep together, eat together, hunt together!

Observe their survival!

Experience their food preparation skills, hunting techniques, cultural norms and more..

 

The Hadzabe Tribe is an Indigenous Ethnic Group, they live as clusters, at a Baobab tree covered savannas, around Lake Eyasi, in the Rift Valley region of Northern Tanzania.

  • In today’s world, they live in the traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle; feeding with the meat of the hunted animals!
  • Additionally, they collect wild honey and the fruits as grown seasonally.
  • They don’t raise animal, they don’t agriculture, even more they don’t stock food.
  • They are the last original nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe in Africa.
  • Due to their lifeway, in regard of they cannot live otherwise, it is the only group, allowed by the Tanzanian government “to hunt”.
    • They hunt by walking for long hours, in the wilderness surrounded by wild animals, without getting noticed. They wear animal skins. Especially the Baboon skins they wear, camouflage themselves very well while hunting. They live in harmony with each other meanwhile with nature.
    • Their hunting tools are bows and arrows.  They have very few belongings, just something needed for survive like; bow, arrow, some tools for cooking, and may be other few items.
    • They know how to make a fire by rubbing wood. They easily hunt animals such as zebra, giraffe, buffalo, monkey, large and small birds.
    • Women and children prepare the hunted animals. Furthermore women collect fruit, berries, wild honey and look after the children.
  • They have a barter-based economy.
    • They don’t take money from anyone, including tourists or government.
  • There is no specific leader or central authority in the community.
  • It is known that they don’t use time concept or modern calendar.
    • For them, the present is the only moment that exists.
    • They live in the actual moment.
    • They don’t worry about the tomorrow or over future.
    • They just focus on that day.
    • They believe that in case when they need, they will have the necessary amount of food for feed.

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