Iringa, Tanzania Travel Blogs

The Cast and Crew of the Big Brother Truck
Oct 6, 2006 (1 photos)

... on the beachfront camp site in Dar es Salaam it was time for our longest drive yet (about 11 hours) to southern Tanzania. Seems like a good opportunity to introduce you to my fellow passengers: Swiss Susy The only passenger my age! Lives in Basel ...

Iringa
Jun 11, 2008 (4 photos)

... with the help of our trusty ear plugs we both had a restful night. The next day we spent walking about the small town. Iringa is the main base for safari's heading out to Ru aha National Park situated some 130kms away. Unlike Arusha we didn't get anyone ...

Oct 10, 2009
Oct 10, 2009 (3 photos)

Hujambo Tanzania!
Apr 29, 2008 (14 photos)

... Tanzania could do with a few of those billboards as well. There are also a surprising number of police road blocks here in Tanzania. We even spotted our first speed camera since leaving SA! But like everywhere else, so far we've just been waved on ...

Chitimba to Iringa
Aug 9, 2008

... overland truck for the boarder crossing - it was painfully slow being processed in the Malawian office, but much quicker entering Tanzania. It was a very long day of driving, but the campsite was really nice and we upgraded to converted stables as ...

Safari
Oct 24, 2006 (21 photos)

... . When these people have spent 2.5 months with sporadic water, electricity, and horrible daladala rides, then they might have a case. Iringa, one word, actually 2, nice & COLD! well chilly anyway. It was so nice to spend a night where i actually had ...

Happy Halloween!
Oct 31, 2009

... learn about thislittle oasis of craft making. It is so cool, and all of the things people learn to make can be seen throughout iringa. I am doing my ethnograohy project here and so I will be able to learn more about the infrastructure of the place and how ...

Another transit
Aug 1, 2006

Drove through Mikumi National Park. Spotted: Elephants Giraffes playing with horns Small flock of mousebirds

More driving on the bus
Aug 1, 2006 (4 photos)

Genrally speaking, I am begining to pick up signs of frustration from everyone on the tour. We spend an awfull amount of hours on the bus going from A to B. And unfortunately we are not allowed to get out much and interact with the locals. Personally as ...

valley of the baobabs
Apr 30, 2008 (23 photos)

... own reliable vehicle, we should try some of the secondary routes, the roads less travelled. If ever we were to return to Tanzania, the well-trodden tourist hot spots would always be accessible. So finally, our plan was to try out the B127 dirt road which ...

Hello Tanzania!
Aug 22, 2006 (6 photos)

... into ever more rugged mountain scenery. We were heading for the campsite at the Old Farmhouse at Iringa, still 600km away from Dar. - - - - - - - Tanzania has a different feel already from Malawi. The houses and buildings are, on the whole, more ...

mvua mbwa na paka nje leo
Nov 5, 2009

... and writing up our public health synthesis paper and also our ethnographies. So many cool things have been learned recently, Iringa has defnintely been a cool and eye opening experience. Many ideas have come together, ideas that will come home with me. ...

Giraffe are curious and Elephants are loud.
Feb 25, 2007 (9 photos)

... city buying onion seeds.  We had a good evening of chatting with him, his English was pretty good, about live in southern Tanzania.  "It's a hard life, but we're happy." was one of his mantras.  It was hard to understand him sometimes, but ...

Iringa
May 28, 2007

May 28: Nothing much from today other than crossing into Tanzania. Immediately we started working on our swahili phrases with the locals. We drove most of the day to get to Iringa to stay at one of the nicer campsites so far. We had a traditional Maasi ...

a muddy day
May 1, 2008 (31 photos)

... the famous Serengeti National Park and Ngorogoro Crater. It would cost a small fortune, but when would we be back in Tanzania again? The whole evening felt a bit surreal: yesterday we were sitting and chatting with 4 Maasai men at a deserted campsite ...

Lions, Elephants and Zebras - from a bicycle!
Feb 25, 2007 (21 photos)

... 're not stupid, there's plenty of souls needing saving in the highlands where the climate is more agreeable....) One more week in Tanzania, then on to Malawi! We met some folks this morning working at an orphanage down near Tukuyu - the last Tz town ...

Well the god's must be watching
Oct 27, 2009

... outside. The farms were all terraced and covered every inch of mountain I could see. A site that I did not expect to see in Tanzania, and it was cold too, another thing I didn\t expect to feel. All the people in Tchenzema live off their farms and have some ...

Sausage Truck
May 10, 2006 (1 photos)

... have to do potwash and other such things, its not too bad thogh. Sitting on the truck has given me time to reflect on Tanzania - its pretty good for British people as there is a lot of familiarity, the language, 3 pin plugs, driving on the left, however ...

The Nightmare Before Christmas
Aug 31, 2006

... . I had a lot of fun in Zanzibar but it had to be my least favourite place so far. The 8 hour overnight ferry back to Tanzania was pure hell. It started off well - we got our own compartment and I nabbed a nice space to lie down on a matress. My ...

This town Rocks!
Jan 22, 2007

... . On Saturday morning, we headed out early to Isamila, a historical site where evidence of Stone Age civilization has been discovered.  Tanzania holds the key to quite a chunk of human history, as homo sapien (that's you) is thought to have evolved ...

Iringa, Tanzania
Jun 21, 2008 (1 photos)

... night in the tent. I hardly slept a wink, which did not bode well for our marathon 12 hour drive across Tanzania planned for today. After a 5 a.m. departure from the campsite, we stopped for breakfast at a small roadside café in the middle of Tanzania, ...

Karonga to Iringa
Dec 26, 2006 (3 photos)

Woke up very early on Boxing Day and crossed into Tanzania, driving through the rolling hills of the Tanzanian Rift Valley to our campsite near Iringa. We drank Amarula and hot chocolate to stay warm that night.

Iringa
Jan 3, 2008

Farmhouse

amekufa?
Aug 18, 2008

... pointless to write again, but hey ho. so Im now in east africa and have been for about 2 weeks seeing people in Tanzania, we are in Iringa at the moment, but spent about a week in dar at the begining, longer than we expected as i managed to have ghanaian ...

Sound as a pound (Kiswahili training)
Jan 19, 2008 (14 photos)

Hamjambo kila wtu, following my recent brilliant news I thought I should give you a bit of an update on my travels! Life is pretty sweet, I am basically back at school but a very, very happy school: one where we are allowed to make up rude sentences ...

10 things ive loved about month 2
Mar 4, 2008

10 things I love about month 2! 1)the most brilliant Tanzanian hairstyles. It's literally the consistency of wool and doesn't grow longer than 15cm because it has no natural oils, very strange. 2)Sitting in my room listening to the rain on the roof ...

Back to work
Jan 29, 2008 (5 photos)

... so I get confused easily when I'm trying to speak!  I wish I could talk to all of you on the phone to share more stuff but my time is running out here on the computer.  I miss you all and hope you are all staying warm!  Love from Tanzania!

half way through training
Feb 10, 2008 (5 photos)

... we went to a HIV testing clinic and a lot of us got tested, as far as I know everyone was fine. the tanzania girls are all quite quiet but are nice once you get them talking and the guys are a mixed bunch, some are really loud and ...

Masimbwe Post-Test Club
May 2, 2008 (1 photos)

... anyone would really like to sponsor this group I think the only way would be to give money to my parents, which I can get out in Tanzania, this would be great in order to get one of the projects up and away.    For the time being we are going to ...

Into Tanzania and beyond
Oct 8, 2006

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