Engaresero Cultural Tour

Engaresero village is located on the southern side of the famous Lake Natron a salt lake located in Northern Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border, in the eastern branch of the East African Rift Valley Escarpment. The Lake falls within the Lake Natron Basin Wetlands of International Importance Ramsar Site. It forms a major breeding ground for lesser flamingos worldwide. Its beauty with thousands of flamingo flocks is astonishing. Engaresero is also rich in Massai cultural heritage. The Massai community in Engaresero continues to practice its age old pastoral ways of keeping livestock, moving their herds in harmony with nature’s patterns.

Hot Spring Tour (3 Hours)

The tour starts at the tourism office at Engaresero village to the baboon caves, spend some time there before heading to lake shore for bird watching. Drive further down through acacia woodland and on the side of rift valley escarpment to the last point on a major hot spring through other numerous small hot springs.

Waterfalls Tour (2 Hours)

The tour starts from the tourism office at Engaresero village then takes its way to the rift valley escarpment where you leave behind your 4×4 vehicles. Tourists get off the vehicle after travelling 3 kms, then start walking along the Engaresero river gorges towards the waterfalls. The walking tour to & from the waterfalls takes two hours (but it does depend on the time spent enjoying the falls and water at the destination).

Biking Tour

The tour takes three hours. Start in the morning and proceed to the baboon caves. Enjoy the ride within the gorges of a small river for a couple of minutes. After exploring the Orpul then take a short bike ride down to the lake shore for a bird watching experience. Enjoy the lake scenery and proceed with a ride to the petrified historic footprints of our ancestors (120.000 years old) where the tour ends for the picnic lunch at the lake shore/hot lunch at your lodge/camp.

Rift valley escarpment tour-Embalulu Crater-Leparakash Plains (From the floor to the roof then back) (3-4 hours).

The tour starts from the office then walk up the rift valley escarpment. The slope of the escarpment is challenging but people do manage. At the Embalulu crater visitor will have opportunity to enjoy a panoramic breathtaking view of the Lake Natron, Engaresero Massai village, Oldonyo Lengai and other escapment features found in this active volcanic area. Astonishing view of Embalulu crater will print a memory in your mind by its beauty the tour Proceed to Leparakash plains where one will get to know the Massai’s livestock keeping activities undertaken by the these pastoralist.

Leparakash Plains to Engaresero Village Tour the tour will take (4 hours)

The tour Rift valley escarpment where one leaves back 4X4 safari vehicle and enjoys the plains of the wet season pastures for Massai livestock. Get a breathtaking view of the Lake Natron and other volcanic features found down in the rift valley and view mountain of god. Walk down to the valley through a walking trail developed during colonial times. Explore various medicinal plants found on the rift valley wall as you descend to Engaresero village.

Extended Biking Tour (3-5 hours)

Bikers coming from Serengeti Klein’s gate/Ngorongoro Conservation Area have an opportunity to leave back their 4X4 safari vehicle and start biking from Masusu where our professional biking guides will meet you and ride down to the beautiful valleys and gorges of the rift valley to Engaresero village/Lake Natron. This is very important opportunity to exercise and keep your body fit.

Ethno-Botanic Tour (2 hours)

The tour starts at the CBO office then takes a round walk in the Bush where various herbs will be identified and its medicinal content explained by the Massai warriors. Get to know various herbs that treat various diseases such as fever, malaria, pneumonia, chest complications, sterility and their use. Learn how to prepare various herbal plants ready to consume.

Herding Tour (2 hours)

The tour is conducted in different areas and seasons of the year due to livestock pasture rotation. Tourist will get to visit the Massai herding cattle’s where an opportunity to learn about livestock keeping and ways to look for green pastures around is guaranteed. Visitors will get to see and appreciate division of labor among the family members in taking care of the livestock cattle’s are the main Massai economic activity and the center of their culture. The tour is done in the evening as the livestock are about to get back into a boma where milking activities and heading cattle’s in their respective kraals takes place.