Details - What will you do at the Stone Age Experience?
Surprise and unexpected turns are essential components of the concept of REBIRTH. Therefore we don’t want to reveal each and every detail about your days at the Stone Age Camp. But to give you a better idea, we will explain in detail the first three days and then give an overview of what will happen during the remaining days.
>Day 1 – Arrival & Introduction
On the first day, participants will be transferred from JRO airport, Moshi or Arusha to Highview Hotel Karatu. Please read this information about your arrival. At Highview Hotel Karatu, in the evening there will be a briefing session in which necessary information about life in the camp will be explained.
Some staff from the hotel will demonstrate Stone Age clothing and you can choose from a variety of cloths and accessories to wear. The cloth will be locally made from skin, fur, straw, bones and loom woven from flax or wool. You can try the cloth in your hotel room. Later, there will be dinner (barbecued Kudu) at the bonfire, and entertainment from local acrobatics and drumming groups. A member of the local Iraqw tribe will come and demonstrate his traditions and weapons. If you want, you can already wear your Stone Age cloths.
Overnight will be at the Highview Hotel. For the following 9 days, this will be your last chance to enjoy the comfort of a modern bed, so use it!
>Day 2 – Going back 10,000 years
In the morning outside the hotel you will find a big table with Stone Age objects. You can choose three objects that you can take into the camp. Choose them wisely because you will need them at the camp! All your other belongings will remain at Highview Hotel where they will be safely locked.
After breakfast, we will drive to the Stone Age Camp at Lake Eyasi. You will be shown around the plot to get to know the ground. You will familiarize yourself with the installations and you can move into the huts.
In the afternoon some Hadzabe Bushmen will show up and ignite the fire at the fire place. You and your fellow Stone Age people must decide a plan about how to keep the fire burning unless you learn from the Bushmen how to make fire. The Bushmen will also teach you how to shoot with bow and arrow.
From now on, to get food, you will have four options:
• Hunting with bow and arrow or fishing with a net or spear (always with Bushmen)
• Gathering (e.g. plants, honey, fruits)
• Getting food from local tribes by exchange for other things
• Miracles (Food might show up in inexplicable ways)
On the first day however, you don’t have to care for your food as the Bushmen will bring some meat that they have hunted and will prepare it together with you at the fire. Vegetables will be cooked on a hot stone.
After dinner, the Bushmen will leave and your group can sit at the fireplace with the Stone Age Expert who will introduce you to the ancient myths of your new home - now you will realize that you are really deep inside Africa!
>Day 3 – Task: Making honey bread
Our task for today is to bake honey bread. For this endeavour, the group must be split into 3 subgroups. One group has to find honey, the other group will have to make the dough for the bread and the third group must build the oven.
Collecting Honey: The participants will walk with the Bushmen through the savanna to learn which things can be eaten, including leaves, nuts, flowers, roots, berries and fungi. To collect wild honey it is necessary to climb up the tree and to smoke out the bees.
Making dough: To make the dough, the grains have to be harvested first from the field using Stone Age tools. Then they must be grinded and so on… Hard work for a piece of bread!
Building the oven: Large stones and sand serve as a foundation. A frame will be built out of willows, which will be covered with a clay/sand/straw mixture. It can be smoothly fired directly after the construction to harden the clay. The oven will be later used for other cooking such as to clay bake fish.
In the late afternoon participants will notice that something mystic has happened at the Magic Baobab tree. Something is hanging up there - what is it and how did it get up there? If it is something useful, what can we do so something useful will appear again? The Shaman will know...
>Days 4 to 8 – Life in prehistoric time
On the following days, you will spend time to arrange food, which also includes fishing at Lake Eyasi using an outrigger canoe and exchanging food and objects with members of local tribes such as the Hadzabe, Tatoga and Maasai.
You will get tasks to solve with the group, but you will also have time for cultural activities including painting on rock and body painting (Paints used will be ochre, hematite, white and red chalk, and charcoal), drumming and dancing to trance.
You will learn that going back to the origins, there is so much more about life than what you think. But most importantly you will have lots of fun with the other members of the group and the local folks!
>Day 9 - Pure Voodoo Magic!
On the last day at the Stone Age Campsite there will be a ceremony in which you and the other participants will be symbolically “reborn”. This important event in the life of a Stone Age man will take place at cave, lit by fire drumming and dancing of members of local tribes. Inexplicable things will happen here. This is magic... voodoo magic!
>Day 10 - Return to the modern world
In the morning, after a night full of raving impressions, you will drive back to Highview Hotel. You can take a hot shower, get back your personal belongings and you will have lunch. After lunch, all participants will be transferred to JRO airport and will fly to Zanzibar. In Zanzibar you will be picked up and driven to a beautiful cottage beach hotel, located at one of the Indian Ocean's finest tropical beaches. Overnight (full board) at the hotel.
>Day 11 - Relax in paradise
You will spend another day and night at the beach in Zanzibar. Probably you will want to enjoy a massage (at extra cost).
>Day 12
End of program, transfer to outbound flight or connecting travel.
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