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- Dar es Salaam
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- 36,232,074
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Mbeya
Travel Blogs from Mbeya, Tanzania
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Two Nights in Mbeya
This is a top pick! ... chicken and ugali (nsima, sadza, pup, all the same corn mush) with him and his sister at her home. Internet is cheap in Tanzania, less than a dollar per hour, sometimes 50 cents. I made contact with Prosper, my Dar es Salaam contact, via phone. He said ...
You Can't Get There From Here
This is a top pick! ... long. We had heard there was a train heading out the next morning (there are no roads that head east from Kigoma to the rest of Tanzania) so we decided to try and grab some seats. We were up at five am and headed to the station. Hundreds of people were ...
Northern Road Trip 1
This is a top pick! ... As a general rule border towns are lousy places, but Nakonde must rank among the worst. The frontier between Zambia and Tanzania is an open one, established decades ago to facilitate trade between two of Africa's most peaceful countries. Locals pass ...
When we lost our innocence
This is a top pick! ... police, but they couldn't have helped us and the place was tainted for us now. Both of us wanted to get out of Tanzania. We got on the bus. We had 12 hours to process the loss of our backpacks, and all the cheap but extremely ...
Back to Tanzania/Mbeya
This is a top pick! ... border make such a difference to the attitudes of the people you encounter. It was just so oblivious we were back in Tanzania. Anyone who has crossed this border will know exactly what we are talking about. Not wanting a repeat performance of the ...
Mbeya
This is a top pick! ... up on news, have a drink and play tennis while their children swim in a water that seems too cold for me. Some have lived in Tanzania for 4 or 5 years, working at the hospital or at the university. So, I take this opportunity to ask this Black man how he ...
Mbaya
This is a top pick! Mbeya 13th June 2008 For the first time since our safari days early on in our time in Tanzania we wake up to a lovely sound of bird song. No engine noise from cars or buses, no people talking in the hotel corridor with loud voices No calls for prayers ...
One and a half mzungu's
... did within Tanzania were beyond incredible but outside of that perhaps the place was just different to what we expected. Apparently, Tanzania is regarded as quintessential Africa and how you might imagine Africa to look like but it took us a little while ...
Day Two
Day two - and what a day it was. Where to begin... we were up bright and early before our "Jambo Jambo" wake-up call and I was able to upload the blog I wrote last night. My wireless connection is unreliable so I am writing everything in Word ...
Who the Malawi!
... this journey was a 6 hour minibus down to our destination town Mzuzu. The local minibuses work on the same system as in Kenya and Tanzania they leave when they are full and then stop to pile more people in on the way. This minibus took it to new extremes ...
Tukuyu
Tukuyu is a small town set in the hills of southern Tanzania, about 40 km north of the Malawi border. Agriculture plays an important role in most people's lives. Tea plantations are one of the most important crops grown here along with bananas and other ...
Dam Border Crossings
Okay so we have successfully negotiated the Zambia/Tanzania border crossing. Both were not without significant frustrations. We were primed by other Tourists that the Tanzanian go slow strategy was a plan to elicit bribes so we were prepared for ...
Mbeya, Tanzania
Nov 12th-Up early to catch bus. Long day which was 12-hour+ on the road, nice bus though. Arrived in Mbeya at about 7pm. We were met at the bus station by the usual taxi men and the usual hotel touts. We wanted to stay near the bus ...
Dar to Mbeya
Hello from Mbeya, Tanzania's capital for rancid chicken curry! We've only just eaten said curry so can't be totally sure if it was rancid, but it certainly appeared to be. Anyway, we've safely made it from Dar to Mbeya, a journey of about 1000km. ...
Malawi Wowee!
... free to go. Only in Africa. We hung with Greg and the Brits another couple days, making our way gradually north toward Tanzania and the inevitable adieu. We have been so fortunate to meet and travel with such amazing people over the last few weeks, ...
Trip to south East Tanzania
... to be usual, we saw giraffes, zebras and elephants. At this point I want to mention something about driving and bus travel here in Tanzania. First of all, driving is on the left hand side, like UK and some others. There are heaps of bus companies, all ...
Trip to south East Tanzania
... to be usual, we saw giraffes, zebras and elephants. At this point I want to mention something about driving and bus travel here in Tanzania. First of all, driving is on the left hand side, like UK and some others. There are heaps of bus companies, all ...
Mbeya Rats
... , "Bad things happen everywhere. It is our fault for trusting him and we thank you very, very much for helping us. Tanzania is a beautiful country." James' friends never showed up. The mzee bought us breakfast and dinner. We insisted on paying for ...
Cool, cool Mbeya
A few days with Father Roland in Tanzania March 23-26 Driving down the road in Tanzania from Dar Es Salaam to Mbeya, I have chosen to attempt to write on the computer on the bumpiest part of the road. It means that I have to write with two ...
Isimira & Mbeya
... at least once today but nope. None of that here, one of the cops even gave a fistbump after saying "Jah never die". I quite like Mbeya, seems like a chill enough place to spend a few days but Lake Malawi is only a stones throw away and the warm heart of ...
Trekking time
... sat down to enjoy the view, and the incredible peacefulness and serenity. Ahh the serenity. This really was wonderful, with Mbeya sprawling below us, almost all around the mountain, and lush green forests and fields of crops visible everywhere. This was ...
Getting tired
Lack of sleep is getting to me. Despite being mentally exhausted by the end of the day, I don't do much physically. My body isn't tired, and my mind continues to plan the next meal. I had a good week with regards to food. A chantrelle mushroom ...
Happy New Year!
This is a top pick! Woke up at 5:15 to catch our bus to Arusha at 5:30. We got on the Hood bus, and had pretty nice seats in the front, with only one seat in front of us. We spent ALL DAY on that bus. ...
Tips for an 18 hour bus trip.
... be the next JHB. Tea is now the main crop grown in the region and other than that is the administrative capital of the Mbeya region in Tanzania. Overall, Mbeya isn’t too bad a place – reminds me of something similar to Nelspruit or ...
800 Kilometers to go
We started the day super early - we were all on the truck by 4am ready to start the massive 800km drive to get us to Malawi. Not much happened on the truck other than a few card games - everyone was still sleepy from the night before! After 12 hours of ...
Premiere impression Tanzanie
Je dois m'arrêter en cours de route du cote tanzanien pour prendre un bus de bonne heure pour dar es salaam - la capitale de la tanzanie. Réveil 5H du matin pour acheter mon ticket et partir à 6H du matin. J'ai du faire 10 hotels avant d'en trouver un ...
Night train to Tukuyu (via Mbeya)
Night train Across Tanzania At around 7:15am, after having a rather rapid breakfast, we left the Tanzania Episcopal Church (TEC) Conference center for TAZARA train station; we were advised not to arrive later than 8 am, otherwise we could have ...
Up up and away
... of Tanzania at work. Our guide was a great gentleman Mr. Nojallan who had perfect English and answered a lot of questions we had about farming, tea growing, and just Tanzania in general. Tomorrow we will cross into Malawi. Whooie, new ...
A bumpy journey to Mbeya
... was able to stretch my legs out a little. Mbeya is a strange town, a major crossing point of routes, connecting southern Tanzania to Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. Upon climbing down off the bus I was immediately surrounded by touts, trying to grab my ...
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