Cultural Heritage Center - Arusha - TravBuddy

The Cultural Heritage Center in Arusha presents crafts and artifacts from hundreds of tribes both local and from other parts of Africa. It carries everything from masks to traditional weapons to tanzanite to wood carvings of all shapes and sizes. The selection is amazing and it just could be a museum of all kinds of African crafts. But of course it is a store so it is possible to buy anything that you see and the largest items can be shipped anywhere in the world. Or so they say, I didnt try shipping anything myself.

Tthere are a lot of items of very good quality and the extreme variety makes it a one stop shop for all your needs for souvenirs during a Tanzanian Safari. Some items are not cheap but it is africa so nobody really pays the stated price. You are pretty much required to haggle and in my personal experience, by using different strategies like bundling items, etc I was able to get more than 35% off the initial price of the items I got.

Overall it was a great place to visit on my last day in Arusha. I am recommending Cultural Heritage to anyone looking for souvenirs in Tanzania and doesnt want to deal with questionable quality or low variety elsewhere as well as with the greater inconvenience of having to carry souvenirs along during the safari.