Starting dates: Saturday October 1, 15 & 22
Maximum number of participants per journey: 12
Cost: 1700 EUR including everything during this week except alcoholic beverages.
Cost does not include the flight to Tanzania. You make your own flight arrangements, but are welcome to ask us for advice. We have flown with them all.
You will be picked up at the airport and welcomed at our hotel in the middle of the bustling area of Kariakoo. The chock of Africa will be immediate, but you can enjoy the air-conditioned rooms.
We are waking up with the sunrise to head off towards Mikumi Wildlife park around 7 AM. After around five hours of driving we arrive at Mikumi Wildlife Lodge where you will be accomodated in comfortable bungalows who are all facing the waterholes.
In the afternoon we explore stories about what brought us here. After watching the sunset over the animals we eat dinner at the open air restaurant.
You wake up for the sunrise by the waterhole. "The sunrise according to the Maasai" Now we have a full day to explore what we are looking for, here at the waterhole. We invite you to the space, to work as a group, in smaller groups, or you can choose to work by yourself. You will have plenty of time to observe patterns at the waterholes, to think, to talk. Now you are landing.
We eat an early breakfast and start our longest drive, to Tanga International Conference Center. This was for many years a dream of Ruth Nesje and Odd Isaksson who had worked in the foreign aid business but wanted to found a real business that would combine a sound business with a responsibility for the local community, built on values of diversity and sustainability. You will hear their amazing story, and be given space to explore your own dreams.
This is a full day in the centre. Mangrove walks with the Maasai watchmen at high and low tide. Lots of time for exercises, reflection & conversations.
Sunset at the Tanga Yacht Club
We leave make time for a relaxed breakfast and leave for Nanyogie Maasai Settlement where we will be welcomed and invited for conversations with the people of this community. We will open up for questions and listening on both sides. For the night, half of the group is invited to stay over night in the village while the other half will stay overnight in Maweni farm, up in the Usambara mountains.
Morning conversations around the Termite mound for the group in Nanyogie. The other group meets at the Soni waterfalls.
We drive back to Tanga.
In the night we have a great farewell party, and we all stay in TICC.
Saturday
The Metafari ends here. You can either travel back to Tanga with our cars (extra cost) or you can stay and continue your exploration on your own.
Ilya Travel in Tanga, TICC will be happy to help you finding activities, contacts, opportunities if you want to prolong your stay. Let us know what you want, or ask us to suggest something outside what you know!
