Cultural Tours

The first couple of days involved getting a flavour of Tanzanian culture. I visited the Arusha museum which was interesting. Composed of a few buildings ranging from human development, the environment and the history of colonialism in this area. It was informative and taught my much about the wildlife, they had an elephant’s skull, so big!

Another day, Quinn (a volunteer who arrived a few days before me), Bella (a cultural tour guide and kili/meru guide who lives and works at peace Matunda) and I visited a pottery production workshop. The friendliest man greeted us and talked us through his clay pottery method; from the sourcing of the clay, the meticulous feeling for lumps in the clay done in a way which resembles kneading bread to spinning the clay on a pottery wheel which was powered by the man’s leg, it was amazing. He not only seemed relatively old he hoofed himself up on to this contraption and manoeuvered this machine with immaculate precision to form a large terracotta jug in barely no time. He showed us his kiln which he’d built himself, it’s incredible how the people here work purely with what their land has provided them.