Country Info
- Dar es Salaam
- Capital
- Tanzanian Shilling (TZS)
- Currency
- 36,232,074
- Population
- TZ
- Country Code
Iringa
Travel Blogs from Iringa, Tanzania
Happy New Year everyone, Looking foward to 2008 !!
... I have allot to tell you so please bear with me here. To remind you I went to Singida, Tanzania for Thanksgiving. Although I didn't spend thanksgiving with my family, I had an amazing experience. Me and many other volunteers stayed ...
Safari near Iringa
Can't remember exactly where the safari park is but it's within 100 miles of Iringa I ...
19th January
Hi all, Hope you're all well... I had written a decent update, but the network connection in the internet cafe died and I lost all the text, so I'll keep it short now... Everything is going well here - since I last wrote I'd like to think my ...
Nimeamka, hai, huru, nitayari!
... able to find all the ingredients to bake a cake in such a small village with such scarce resources! I'm now back in Iringa for a morning, after a gruelling 17 hour trip yesterday. My phone was stolen on the bus, so I don't know how I'm ...
Adventures (and rats) In Kipaduka
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 Another day packed in the back of a Landover out to kipaduka for the perinatal/vaccination/family planning clinic. I started with Dora (Mama) Saga seeing pregnant moms for prenatal visits. It all started out great. ...
Making a difference in my village
... me happy was that on the third day of the conference a high majority of the people that showed up were teachers. In Tanzania, a high majority of younger people are getting affected with AIDS each year. Its important to educate the teachers ...
Karibu, Karibu, Karibu, wengi wtu
... aligned photo tag: So we were quite the crowd and it was nice to have a few beers and a bt of chat about peaceful Tanzania. The trip home was certainly memorable as well. I decided to jump in the boot with the four kids and got them to ...
Ahhh everything in 30mins
... to make people come.. they will come in flocks, if for the wrong reasons. My time has run out and Ive got to catch a bus to Iringa where Im going to surprise a few of my international vols mates who its there birthday, its going to be wicked. Im ...
AFRICAN CAMERA DEBACLE
... pictures. Oh, how I will come to miss it! No one attends my party. Aug. 24 - I enter a photo studio in Iringa, Tanzania. I give them one of my six rolls of film. I come back an hour later and am given one ...
Ups and downs...
... throw over it - a method that proved very successful, and the fire was soon out, with no injuries! But hey - TIT! (This is Tanzania) - and crazy stuff happens! Sorry there are no photos yet, as I've left the camera in my room, but hopefully they'll ...
Day Thirty - Iringa
... we just packed tents and got on the truck. We crossed the Tanzanian border easily and had breakfast at the border just after 8am. Tanzania is just as green as Malawi but seems much more developed, even straight after the border. We drive through tea and ...
Some pics for you...
Not much to say but hopefully I've figured this computer thing out to give you a sneak peak at some of the photos I've taken here. I've had a week full of meetings and more hospital experiences not a lot unlike previously written. We've been ...
Sorry... another downbeat entry
... others in the car fled to avoid trouble, and the next day Wilson was in Moshi - around 12 hours away, in the North of Tanzania near the Kenyan border. Understandably, Andy was a mess, shaken up and upset, since he'd been the one in hospital with her as ...
OOOooohhh...two days in a row!
I think everyone that travels probably has this experience but bear with me. I travel to experience another place...preferably one extremely different than my own comfortable backyard. I also travel hoping to learn everything I possibly can ...
tanzania
... more funny than scary. Anyway time to go, if anyone wants to send me a letter or package that would be warmly welcomed the address is : Steph Mulhern c/o Hamim Kilakama /SPW/IFCU building/1st floor/PO box 737/ Iringa/Tanzania. Love to ...
The Start of This Blog
... and I are from Texas. Two of our children were born in Colorado, one in Texas, and one here in Tanzania, in our house. Yes a home birth in Iringa is a story within itself. We love traveling and have seen a good bit of Tanzania. We love Tanzania and have ...
Nyanyembe - Situation Analysis
... analysis' in my village Nyanyembe, Mbalamaziwa ward, Mufindi District. My village is absolutely stunning, set on the road from Iringa to Njombe, it overlooks beautiful lush green hills, is really spread out (so lots of walking!), covered with maize and ...
Back to school (and photos at last)...
... of female Tanzanian volunteers to begin with. Last weekend a few of us went to the Ismila Stone Age site just outside Iringa for the day, an amazingly strange but beautiful place made by wind and clay erosion. Check out the pictures (if they ...
Baobab valley
After travelling all day we arrived, after dark, at a camping area. A sandy area that had scorpions running around and we had to learn how to put up the tents. We were now on the African mainland and the truck, our bouncing home for 4 ...
Lunpanga week
With Inno away with family problems (after he returned i found out they are big, if not massive problems, I feel so sorry for him right now. The word pole could not be used more sincerly. I cant write about such issues casually in a ...
Met a man who walked across Canada.....
... hot chocolate, 3/4 coffee from Wetaskiwin. He talked about how he loved the coffee and it was so expensive to get imported to Tanzania. Tomorrow we head to Malawi which I am really looking forward to because it will be nice to see a new country in ...
Maji Salama and Festivities
... is also pretty serious as such a thing can quite easily turn out with a person being killed! ( TIT- This Is Tanzania) THE EDUCATIONAL VISIT, all 10 volunteers arrived at 8am (minus Inno who was with the witch doctor), although by very ...
pole pole computer (Day of Haggling)
After 20 minutes I've finally got to the intended page, it's a good job Tanzanians are so relaxed. We are spending a day in the market, haggling over goods to practice our swahili, its excellent practice but I cant help but feel quite harsh bartering ...
Week 3- Last week of Kiswahili.... Poa
... been taken to his uncles. What a relief... I still found the response of the family a bit odd but ah well this is Tanzania now! Anyway after I new that salaam was home safe I felt better about packing and leaving. I was escorted by the entire family into ...
My last and most dangerous month in Masimbwe!
... off our programme with a VCT. 53 people got tested bringing up our total to 200 people tested, 5 were positive, the average in Tanzania. We had some last moments with our close friends in village the amazing Godfrey, Tecla, Dennis, Neema and mama Mariam ...
Crazy times
... to help show us the way! He was great, but only took us to what he called 'the main path', but of course this being Tanzania, nothing is as simple as it sounds, and there were many turnings and it was not straight at all so we had to shine the torches ...
Week 8- Farewell to Iringa
... right. So we were sitting there with a whole pile of gear in the boiling hot sun, waiting till who knows when. This is Tanzania.... The land of waiting. It's a good thing that im innately lazy and don't really mine sitting around not doing much all day. ...
Slow Going Time
We had an 11-hour drive time and we had a 4:45 am leave time. We would also be having breakfast after we got on the road which doesn’t make sense to me. And it kind of makes me angry at the same time to because as soon as I wake up, I ...
Dar -> Changarwe -> Iringa!
... how well this is going to go down!) It will be an interesting month we think!!! We left earl on sunday morning to catch a bus to Iringa, it was a mini bus and 6 and a half hours is les than comfortable when you have 4 seats with 6 people! It was very ...