The Hadzabe are such an ancient tribe that National Geographic calls them “the closest living relatives of the humans who first left Africa to migrate to the rest of the world.” Peaceful in nature, this people, now reduced to less than a thousand individuals, represents the last example of the true hunter-gatherers of East Africa. They live in small nomadic villages and do not know agriculture, writing and any form of political organization. The women are dedicated to the search for herbs and medicinal plants and to the collection of wild fruits and tubers, while the men hunt using bows with poison-tipped arrows. The Hadzabe speak a click language, made up of popping sounds (produced by putting the tongue against the palate in certain positions), each of which has its own semantic value. Early in the morning you can participate with the Hadzabe men in bush hunting or learn with the women the use of medicinal plants collected in the savannah.
