Gemstone Tour

Mission

We are a team that creates unique and socially responsible travel, providing services beyond expectations.

Vision

To strengthen our position as the leading tourism company providing quality, creative, innovative, and empowering society through socially responsible activities.

Value

To strengthen our position as the leading tourism company providing quality, creative, innovative, and empowering society through socially responsible activities.

Our country is not only home to the wildlife biodiversity that it’s been blessed with, but it’s also home to some of the world’s most beautiful and rarest gemstones. Immerse Africa welcomes you to Tanzania, Home of Tanzanite, one of the rarest gemstones in the world. We invite you to visit the Mererani and Lemshuku hills where Tanzanite and Green Garnet are found respectively. Experiencing this gemstone tour will be an experience of a lifetime. The main gemstone that we focus on this tour is Tanzanite, Tsavorite, and Tourmaline, which are all mined in an area called Mererani hills (Mererani)which is just adjacent to Moshi.

Why is this tour special because it allows you to see and understand the whole mining process of the Tanzanite gemstones which it’s the only known source in the world a 4km strip of land near Mount Kilimanjaro, northern Tanzania? This single limited source renders Tanzania at least a thousand times rarer than diamonds. Understanding the mining process can be very interesting as it allows you to experience how local miners and big-scale miners do their work and how they interact and operate in the same environment. You will get to meet up with the miners personally and exchange ideas and hear their stories, on how they ended up in the mining industry and how they feel about their jobs, and much more. You will also get a chance to camp and visit the mining shafts so you can see where all those gemstones and jewelry are from to end up in people, wrists, ears, or necks.

Tanzanite

Tanzanite is in the variety of the Zoisite (a calcium aluminum hydroxyl Sorosilicate) It was discovered in the Mererani Hills of Manyara in Northern Tanzania in 1967, near the city of Arusha and Kilimanjaro. Naturally formed tanzanite is extremely rare, still found only in the Mererani Hills. Tanzanite represents a happy life filled with fortune

Tsavorite has earned its place as one of the world’s finest colored gemstones. Its high refractive index and dispersion levels translate into wonderful brilliance and it is far less included than its cousin, Emerald. It belongs to the variety of Grossular garnet. It was discovered in 1967 near the Komolo village in northeastern Tanzania’s Lelatema hills by Scottish geologist Campbell bridges.

Immerse Africa offers you a gem tour that will give you an unforgettable journey filled with adventure as we visit mining sites both in Mererani and Lemshuku in Tanzania. The tour will last two days and one night

Learn more about Tanzanite and Tsavorite also descend underground and experience the magnificence and witness the rock formation of these beautiful gems.

The gemstone tour experience package

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Tour highlight

A tour in the Tanzania mining area through the different mining zonez in Mererani from Block A to Block D where you will also learn of how mining is done and the types of equipment used.

A tour on the shores of the beautiful lake kidawashi on the way to lemshuku

Camping in the Lemshuku area

A tour through different mining sites and the local village in Lemshuku

An underground mine tour in Tsavorite mine.Learn more about Tsavorite,how its mining is done,the equipments used,and its rock formation .Beautiful sundown with barbecue,socializing and interacting with local miners

TOUR DESCRIPTION

DAY ONE

In the morning guest shall be picked up from their hotel. At 7 am will depart a short journey to the Mererani hills where the rare blue gem Tanzanite is found.It is a two-hour-and-a-half journey filled with adventure as we pass through local villages and terrains with beautiful landscapes.

On arrival in Mererani, we will visit different mining zones divided into blocks from A to D. You will learn the history and formation of Tanzanite,how it was discovered, how its mined, equipment used in mining, and how it has changed the lives of the locals, You will get to visit a mine that had multiple productions.

Lunch will be served after the Mererani tour then we will depart on a 2-hour journey to the hills of Lemshuku where the Tsavorite/Green Garnet gemstone is found and also where you will camp for the night, on our way we will pass through some Maasai local village on the shores of Lake kidawashi. On arrival in Lemshuku shall settle for sundown and have Nyama Choma in the evening.

Meals: Lunch, Dinner

DAY TWO

On the second day of the gemstone tour, breakfast will be served early in the morning as you enjoy a beautiful sunrise. Africa breakfast,you will learn and discuss the history and formation of tsavorite, how it was discovered, how it is mined, the equipment used in mining, and how it has changed the life of the locals of the area. You will tour around where you will be shown different mining sites that have an experience in the depths of the earth and get their hands dirty. They will be provided with safety gear and guidance all the way. Lunch will be served after the tour and them we get ready for our departure back to town where you will be dropped at you accommodation and that will be the end of the tour with Immerse Africa

Meals:breakfast and lunch

What’s included:

Tour according to the itinerary

Transportation in a 4×4 safari vehicle

Professional, English-Speaking Guide

Overnight accommodation according to the itinerary

Meals according to the itinerary

Mineral water, beers, soft drinks(For any special enquire on specific drink please notify when making your booking)

Flying doctors Services

All the mentioned activities

All government fee

Items excluded