Magamba Eco-Cultural Tourism is a Registered Youth led Community Based Tourism program in Lushoto Tanga Tanzania.
Magamba Eco-Cultural Tourism is located 13Km from Lushoto township in Magamba Village, Kwemonko street just beside Spiritan Novitiate, (Oaklands). Our center is settled on a valley bordering the Magamba Nature Forest Reserve and the local community houses hanging on the rolling hills at Kwemonko about 30minutes walking from Magamba Nature Forest Reserve headquarter.
This makes Magamba Eco-Cultural Tourism the only tourism organization that allows visitors to get time and easily to access the Nature and culture to a very close.
While in our center you can enjoy a very cool and evergreen environment with a healthy Oxygen air from the Magamba Nature Forest Reserve at the same time enjoy the beautiful view of the farm land and the forest while sitting with a cup of coffee from our small farm house.
Looking very careful can see the chameleons in our beautiful garden hunting the insects coming to feed in our garden. While relaxing in our farm house balcony can see the birds flying around our gardens. If are hiking to the forest can book a hot local lunch at Magamba Eco-village which will be saved by local mamas in the village.
Our Center is decorated by various fruits trees such as peas, pitches, Apples, Plums, Avocados, Bananas, some coffee trees or learning while enjoying a cup of coffee. Some visitors never tried a sugarcane with their teeth we have the sugarcanes in our garden for enjoying, later can go around the village and test local beer from sugarcane.
It is a special place, highlighting the area with historical and cultural customs along with the rich land use and traditions. Its landscape comprises spectacular view point’s magnificent mountains peaks, walking trails, Natural forests and interesting Cultural interactions. Its landscape reflects an area as a rich with heritage and tradition preservations.
What we Do:
Using Tourism to create opportunities for local people especially youth and women’s in countryside who rely heavily on natural resources to obtain their needs, Working on Environmental related issues which have been increasingly visible in hindering the development of rural lives for decades, which resulted on loss of forests and other natural habitats, due overexploitation of natural resources, contamination and lack of safe water and sanitation in a large proportion of the developing world which continues to affect societies and hinder development.
Our Eco & Cultural Tourism programs contributes to the achievement of MDG on environmental sustainability and integration to principles of sustainable development into country programs, and reversing the loss of our Natural Biodiversity as well as environmental resources. In addition, the initiatives linked to other goals, such as contributing to the achievement of MDG 1 to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger and strengthening communities’ ability to deal with the effects of climate change, particularly poor populations that are most vulnerable to climate change’s impacts.
Welcome to Lushoto and welcome to Magamba Eco & Cultural Tourism
Cultural Tourism A tool for Poverty Eradication 