When you go to the Lake Eyasi region, you’ll got a very educational visit with two of Tanzania’s remote tribes, the Datoga and Hadzabe people. These exciting and wonderful people live many hundreds of years ago as their ancestors have done. The Datoga people are like the Maasai, they are just as interesting. The Hadzabes are Tanzania’s last nomads. They are live what the land has provided, a hunters too. Approximately, there are only 200 of these people left. It is educational to go hunting with the men, they speak a click language. We able to learn about their traditions and culture in the one village visited was from the Chief and his 7th wife.
Lake Eyasi can be reach after over one hour of dusty driving south-west of Karate and the Ngorongoro Crater one arrives at the northern shore, for about 50km to the south-west a mildly alkaline lake stretching. By the Crater Highlands, to the north-east the horizon is dominated beyond an escarpment the plains of the Serengeti. When the stronger Masaii tribes moved into the Serengeti and Ngorongoro, in over 100 years ago, the Datoga were pushed south and other indigenous bushmen living there. Many made Lake Eyasi and its surrounding bush and forests their home.
There is Kisima Ngeda farm located amongst the doom and acacia palm forests at the north-east end of the lake, by a small lava outcropping. To fresh water springs in the area, this owes its survival that allow vegetables and grass to grow. The springs also sustain a small reservoir used as a small tilapia fish farm. Owned by a German family, The farm is have main source of income from fresh milk produced the cows they keep and sold in local villages. Along the shores of the lake are the meadows and the forests, which home to a wide variety of wildlife including hippo, leopard, a variety of monkeys, greater and lesser flamingos, various birds, storks and pelicans.
Private campsites, several very pleasant are located in the forest clearings by the lake, these provide grassy tent spaces, toilet and shower facilities from local materials made as far as possible. A cool breeze keeps away mosquitos at night. For bird-watchers, this is an ideal place for those who just want to spend and to relax two or three nights in total peace.
In the Lake Eyasi region, there is a local tour guide by the name of Momoya Muhindoi. With the local people, he has an excellent reputation and other guides use him to assist with the tourists. He is related to one of the Datoga Chiefs, and speaks the local dialect/language.
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