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, German, and Kiswahili. In our efforts to reduce plastic use, we provide stainless steel water flasks for your hikes.
Day Experiences
Multi-Day Experiences
Multi Day Hikes
Multi-day treks with overnight stays in the forest villages of Mtae and Mazumbai.
About us Travel with the only fully registered tour company in Lushoto
Shambaa Eco Tours is the only fully registered tour company in Lushoto and all our tours can be individually catered according to personal preference and request. Our guides are permanently employed and we also utilize trusted freelance guides that have more experience in other sectors or languages to suit your needs.
Hear from our guests
Wonderful hiking experience in the Usambara mountains
We did two fantastic hiking tours in the Usambara Mountains with Shamba Eco Tours and can highly recommend them. The guides Kasim and Alex were very friendly, polite, and extremely knowledgeable, and explained many interesting things about the area, the... Read this review
Giadda
Highly Recommend!
Wonderful multi-day hike in Usambara Mountains. This was seamless - a few emails and this whole adventure was set. Every detail was taken care of. We did a 3 day hike Lushoto to Mambo - added a waterfall hike the... Read this review
Efrans
Magic
After a few days of Zanzibar, Lushoto was the beginning of my journey on the mainland. Arriving there by coach after a great and exciting ride, I spent two days hiking with Baraka, who quickly brought me closer to home... Read this review
Katy
Fantastic walking tour to Kisasa Waterfall - thoroughly recommend
Kasim our guide took us on a wonderful walk to Kisasa waterfall through local villages and farmland, stopping regularly en route to talk about the plants and how the local people use them for medicinal or cleaning purposes. Kasim was... Read this review
TamPed
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