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Lushoto Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Lushoto, Tanzania
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Usambara - Day 2 - An evening with the nuns!
This is a top pick! I found out where all the chicken shit came from. About 5am there was a cockerel cock-a-doodle-doing in the corridor right outside my room! Tea, chapatti and Karimata (a donut type thing) for breakfast at another dive joint in the morning before ...
Usambara - Day 1 - The drunken guide
This is a top pick! ... . The locals must have been happy that the rains seemed to be finally returning. The short rains last year had not arrived in Tanzania and I think these were the first real rains for 9 months or so. Coming into town all the locals kids were chanting ...
Arusha to Lushoto - The dreaded bus station
This is a top pick! ... road out of Arusha and green as we traveled back passed the coffee plantations and fields of plantains. I was surprised how green Tanzania was, although not like Uganda, I had expected most areas just to look like the pictures I'd seen beforehand of the ...
Usambara - Day 3 - The long ridge and dodgy kebabs
This is a top pick! Fresh bread and milky coffee to get me of to a raring start for the day. A bit of mist lingering but that soon burnt off. Farmland and villages to start the day before entering the cool of the pine forest. A locally planted venture used for local ...
First 2 wks March
Hi Everyone Thank you to all those that have sent emails. Well have been a bit off the air of late due to the fact I have been to the orphanage at the weekend and to Longido. Apologies. Firstly Longido. Longido is about 1.5 hrs north of here, possibly ...
end Feb Arusha
Hi Everyone Could not get into this last Friday. Have had a great 2 weeks. Been to a wedding, actually double wedding. The ceremony was very traditional, although the bride was dressed like an Aussie bride. After that we went to the reception!!!. A bit ...
To loshoto in a sardine can
We arrived at the bus station and what an experience this was. There were so many people and buses. The people were selling just about everything that you could imagine. The bus was supposed to leave at about 10am, however since the bus was full, ...
Lushoto
... home. After a brief meeting with a few officials we headed of to Mombo. A supposed 3 hour journey with our destination aim being Lushoto, up in the Usumbara Mountains. After a 6 hour journey, a lot of hassle and two bus rides later ( the later one ...
Usambara Mountans Hiking Trip Days 1 & 2
... at the foot of the Usambaras, hopped in a Daladala (minibus) and wound up the twisty (but paved!) mountain road to Lushoto. We arrived after about an hour of driving, hopped off the dala, and followed our guidebook's instructions to the Cultural ...
Day 213 - Tanzania, Road Side - I'm Hungry!
Woke with slight hangover but pleased to have not had any ghosts come visit me in my dreams. S&M was MIA but eventually found in a young ladies room. Ooooh appears to have been a productive night for him! Left camp at 9.30 drove into Dar Es Salam. ...
Chameleons in magnolias
... . We take Marianne's back for a test walk around the town, which was built in colonial times as a holiday resort for Germans. Lushoto is thus a completely different experience from Moshi, it rather looks like a Swiss ski resort, except there's no snow but ...
We're Bus(ted).
... we pulled away. The journey was a bit rough, to put it mildly. Every time we hit one of the Tanzania special speed bumps, consisting of three tightly spaced humps for maximum discomfort, the bone-jarring impact threatened every filling in my ...
Been to Dar es Salaam
Hi everyone and Karibu (welcome), Happy Easter to you all and hope the weekend in Augathella went well for each of you that went. I did miss the weekend. Easter here is not an event. Will tell you about it soon. Firstly since I lst wrote , quite a few ...
The Mountains
... peanuts, popcorn, toothpaste, hair combs, hats, toys, sunglasses, and anything else that is relatively portable. As we neared Lushoto, we started to climb into the mountains. Red clay and lusher foliage. Some gorgeous views of cliffs and waterfalls ...
Days 4-5: Langui to Mtae and Home
... early to get on a bus to go to school every day, but also because the on the bumpy twisty 3-hour ride down to Lushoto these kids were really sick- the middle aisle became something of a vomitorium. Lempress and I wavered between feeling sorry for ...
Kili - the halfway point
... swerved numerous suicidal dalla dalla drivers and negotiated some blind hair-pin mountain bends we arrived at Lushoto, apparently a favoured holiday destination during Tanzania's Germanic colonial era. It was easy to see why ze German’s were so fond ...
Usambara Mountains
Trying to write with a keyboard where all the keys are in the wrong place!! We are in the Usambara mountains in Lushoto - up high! I am so achey because we have been walking all day for about 8 hours up and down mountains! Ok - I didnt finish our ...
Loshuto & Usumbara Mountains
... . We are in a small town / village called Loshuto in the middle of the Usumbara mountains... this is the natural border between Tanzania and Kenya (to the north). Yesterday we walked to the top of one of the small mountains and we could see a view ...
Day 3: Lukosi to Langui Convent
We started with guacamole, omelets and chapatti (like a tortilla made w. oil rather than water) breakfast-great to sneak a few veggies in there with all that oil! Then we walked across the fields and up our first big hill of the day. I was ...
Hiking in the Usambaras
... 'd get on the flight to South America. We're also looking forward to the in-flight entertainment. Television here in Tanzania has rather accurately been described as "Wack" and "Swill" by several locals we met. Horrible sound and picture ...
Serengeti and Ngorongoro crater
If someone was to ask me how was Africa? the first thing that would have to come to my mind would be it was bumpy! The roads here are ridiculously bumpy. And being on a huge bus doesn't exactly help either! :) sometimes you are really flying in the ...
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