SOUVENIRS YOU SHOULD BUY DURING YOUR SAFARI IN TANZANIA

COME WITH EXTRA MONEY TO BUY TANZANIA PRESENTS TO YOUR BELOVED ONES !

Tanzania is blessed with so much more distinctive items that found in Tanzania only.

• Tanzanite

Tanzanite’s only known source in the entire is a 3 miles strip of land near Mount Kilimanjaro, Northern Tanzania. Tanzanite is found in sausage-shaped formations.Tanzanite is impressive gem that comes to life in a couple of earrings, a stunning and special tanzanite jewelry has become sought after all the world.Tanzanite jewelry is loved entire the world, tanzanite rings in particular, being a popular choice for jewelry enthusiasts.

• Culture bracelets

Tanzania is a country with more than 120 tribes that have developed to a wide range of location and subjected to different weather and climate change, after undergoing different social changes they adapted hand craft skills. A far People wear their jewelry both as a display of their wealth and as adornments of beaty, most notably on special occasions such as wedding day. Most famous culture bracelets in Tanzania are Maasai traditional bracelets and jewelry in Village market, Tanzania.

• Maasai Blankets/ Shuka

Maasai shuka resembles to Kitenge, the story of this traces back to colonial era where Scottish missionaries were brought blankets to the nomadic Maasai society.Nowadays Maasai shuka have been modified to different colors and have been widely used in making other kinds of clothes like shirts, trousers, and shorts.

• Tinga Tinga paintings.

Nowadays Tinga Tinga African Paintings You can buy via Tinga Arts cooperative society website.The style founded by Edward Tinga Tinga who started painting his highly stylized animals and scenery in Dar es salaam in Late 1960’s using in expensive materials.

• Makonde African Sculptures.

The Makonde sculptures are made up of the African Black wood trees, always when people think of African art, they are thinking of Makonde sculpture. Makonde tribe ethnically lived in Southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique.Almost all of the Makonde sculptures are carved from a single block of wood no matter how complex the design.Early Makonde carvings were functional items hair combs, household necessities nowadays the carvings become more expressive and decorative in nature.Sculptures are also used with the ambition to educate, entertain daily routine life activities and teach about village life.Today sculptures are used to preserve traditional aspects of human kind even though many carvers are inevitable are influenced by demand of African Culture to the world [Exposition of African Culture to the World]

• Kitenge and Kanga.

This are East African pure cotton fabric similar to a sarong, mostly worn by Women and Young Women wrapped around the chest or waist over the head as a head scarf or as a baby sling.Kitenge is a colorful piece of fabric and flexible and can be designed and sewn is different styles it can be simple pants, jacket, top, a dress, a skirt, pants, romper and swimming costume.It is informal and inexpensive fabric with uniqueness border and street slums slogans in Swahili Languages and slangs.