Discover one of the most delightful landscapes of Tanzania: the Meru region

With Meru Cultural Tours you can experience both the incredible nature around Mt Meru and the warm hospitality of its people. Located in Akeri, right at the foot of the mountain, Meru Cultural Tours offers a perfect base for interesting tours in the region as well as more extensive safaris to the famous National Parks of Northern Tanzania.

Take part in the rich and diverse real life of Tanzania

As our guest in Akeri we not only guide you around the natural beauties around Mt. Meru – we also invite you to participate in the daily life of the Meru people and to discover their culture and history.

Support sustainable development in the region

Coming to us, you are giving something back, too: Your stay makes a valuable contribution to improving the daily life of the Meru. Meru Cultural Tours was created to support the Akeri Vocational Training Centre – its profits are dedicated to providing young people with an education and, ultimately, to improving the economic situation in the region.

Experience Tanzania from a unique perspective – experience the real Meru!

Meru Cultural Tours is located at the Akeri Vocational Training Centre. We offer simple, affordable housing of good quality in a beautiful and peaceful country environment. With a view of the summit of Mt. Meru or down its slopes and over the wide, open savannah.

Our Meru Cultural House is a very special, quite unique place to stay. Right next to a typical Meru agricultural environment, where bananas and coffee grow under big trees, it combines traditional and modern building techniques. Based on the form of the traditional Meru roundhouse – the “boma“-- the Meru Cultural House was developed as a large, two-storey boma. On the ground floor it has a lounge with a small kitchen, two double bedrooms and a bathroom and shower.

On the second floor are four sleeping compartments, shower and bathroom. The large boma is especially suited for those looking for alternative forms of tourism, and for groups.

We also have a guest house with 3 double bedrooms, shower, bathroom, and a lounge with a small kitchen.

And there is a campground where you can pitch your own tent or stay in one of our large two-person tents.

Wherever you’d like to stay – in the boma, the guest house or in the campground – we will give you a cordial welcome and offer you our warm and genuine hospitality.

The beauty of its nature and the hospitality and warmth of its people notwithstanding, many families in the Meru region are poor. Population growth results in less and less land per family for those living on agriculture. In addition to bananas, many grow coffee and vegetables. But they suffer from the low price of raw coffee on the world market, and from the more and more frequent draughts caused by climate change. For many it has become impossible to live solely on the income generated by the products of their small farms.

We believe that education for the young is the best way out of this situation of poverty. Meru Cultural Tours is a non-profit project for financing education through tourism.

The profits Meru Cultural Tours makes go into financing the AVTC and improving the educations it offers. Meru Cultural Tours also creates employment opportunities for the tour guides trained at the AVTC and generates income for the region.

That’s what’s special about Meru Cultural Tours: With the money you spend on staying with us and going on our tours you both support the education of the young people of Meru and create jobs for them. Your visit furthers development in the region and creates ways out of poverty.