Marangu Village Cultural Day Trip Tour

A full day tour with many impressions – Chagga caves, coffee tours, the Kilasiya Waterfall and Local people visit. The trip to Marangu village takes about one drive to get to the village. Meet our English-speaking guide at Marangu Mtoni for the briefing and the highlights of your excusion.

Your executions will begin with Kilimanjaro National Park, Marangu gate. Marangu Gate (1720m) is a starting point of Kilimanjaro climb adventures and one of popular routes to the top of Kilimanjaro. Your guide will give a brief history of Marangu route and why is famous for Kilimanjaro trekking, at the gate you see will the ascending climbers making preparations. Please note you will see all these activities outside the gate since the Climbers only are allowed to get in.

Afterwards, we will take a short hike to a nearby valley with a small waterfall, well known as "evergreen valley" by locals. After the hike we drive to the other side of the vllage to learn more about the history of the Chagga tribe and visit the caves dug by the Chagga during the wars with the Maasai some 200 years ago they were used to hide the children, women and cattle during the Maasai attacks.

The opportunity to visit a vintage traditional Chagga house, food storage facilities, stone grain grinders and plants that are traditionally used. Coffee tour, go to the farm, see how coffee is cultivated, harvest and processed to a cup of coffee in a local way and finally drink your cup of coffee.

After hot lunch at one of the local restaurant, the hike to Kilasiya Waterfall will start. It is short and exhausting trail but it worth the effort, you can deside swim or just touch the water from kilimanjaro. After satisfaction we drive back to Moshi with good memories of the tour.