From Mt. Kilimanjaro to the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and Zanzibar, Tanzania is also endowed with some of the most breath taking attractions. Tourists will no doubt want to experience these sights.

It would be incomplete if any tourist were to leave Tanzania without realizing the other treasure awaiting discovery. With bountiful ways to experience the culture, interact with local people and enjoy magnificent scenery in many places, tourists could easily spend a few more days, weeks or even months in Tanzania complimenting their mountain climb or safari thus making their visit much more complete and rewarding.

Tourists now have the opportunity to choose form a variety of cultural tours organized by Ashanti Lodge Tours and Safaris.

In many areas, rural life is an attraction on its own. Carefully cultivated plots of land or lush tropical vegetation form a back drop for simple traditional houses, women are seen in colorful dresses or clad in Kitenge or Kanga balancing buckets of water on their heads. Villages participate enthusiastically in development projects, irrigation systems to construction work for primary schools. In the evenings, when soft moonlight bathes the village, it is time for cultural activities. Men and women dance to ancient rhythms celebrating for a few hours the joy of life.

Villagers are often willing to receive tourists and share with them the daily life activities around their village. They see tourists as an activity that can create employment and generate income which ca be used to improve their living conditions. Ashanti Lodge Tours and Safaris organizes visit to the following cultural sited:-

• Visit to ancient hiding caves used during the historic Chagga- Maasai wars.
  
• Many waterfalls through lush green valley with panoramic view of Kilimanjaro paying more attention to KINUKAMORI falls in Marangu.
  
• Visit to the home of Yohanna Lauwo, who was the first Africa to reach the summit KIBO in 1889 with Hans Meyer, a German.
  
• Visit lake Chala (at the border with Kenya) where local legends recount takes of a monster residing under the water surface. The monster ate Germany tourists who dare swim in the lake. Could be a relative to the famed Loch Ness monster in Scotland.
  
• Visit to traditional medicine men /healers and herbalists.
  
• Participate in the Chagga dances known as Rosi and IRINGI.
  
• Watch how the traditional local brew known as MBEGE is brewed from bananas and finger millet.
  
• Chance to see local blacksmiths at KOMAKUNDI village who make Maasai spears and tools using traditional methods.
  
• Visit local artists in Mamba and Marangu. Chance to meet Levi Mlawi- the artist who made the sculptor of a wailing lady at the Kinukamori falls.