Shambaa Eco Tours

Discover authentic hiking tours and cultural experiences

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Discover authentic hiking tours and cultural experiences, including rainforest explorations, unique wildlife sightings, and local village tours. Enjoy breathtaking views and much more…

Embark on authentic, environmentally-friendly hiking and cultural tours with us. Our offerings include short trips to stunning waterfalls and multi-day hikes with camping and overnight stays, all set in pristine African nature. Explore rainforests, and encounter unique wildlife such as black and white colobus monkeys, blue monkeys, myriad bird species, and chameleons. We also organize tours to national parks where you can see rhinos, giraffes, elephants, and more.

Discover the colonial history of Lushoto (formerly Wilhelmstal) through visits to old churches, cemeteries, historic houses, and East Africa’s oldest police station. Our village tours provide the opportunity to meet locals and learn about their traditions, languages, traditional medicine, and cuisine. Enjoy breathtaking views over the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania, Lushoto, located off the beaten track between Kilimanjaro, Moshi, and Zanzibar.

We are a fully licensed tour company offering a range of tours within Lushoto and the Usambara Mountains, as well as catered safaris, mountain climbing to Kilimanjaro or Meru, and cycling tours. Our guides speak English, French, German, and Kiswahili.

In our efforts to reduce plastic use, we provide stainless steel water flasks for your hikes. We accept all major credit cards for your convenience.

What our clients have to say about us

Have a hike to Irente Pointview

We had a nice hike from Lawns hotel up to Irente Pointview, through villages and cultivated farmland, stopping to see some work activities, like making juice from sugar cane for a local liquor and making bricks for a own house. The view of the underneath plains from Irente point, with a 800 metre vertical drop, is spectacular. On the way back, we stopped at Irente Farm Lodge Biodiversity Reserve for a healthy farm lunch of bread, cheese, yoghurt, home-made jam and fresh fruit. Their organic products are also sold at their small shop. Chande Mmicha, our guide, was great in explaining the village life and the plants and showing the chameleons on the trees. I suggest to all who want to have a nice and instructive hike on Usambara hills to ask for this guy as he is nice and qualified.

Date of experience: February 2020

Excellent experience!

We booked a 4 day hiking in Lushoto area, passing through local villages. Incredible views, wonderful local experience, we highly recommend it. Our guide was Chande – amazing, down to earth guy, knew all about the animals (and how to find them!), villages and best viewpoints. He has great music as well 😉
Date of experience: February 2020
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