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- Dar es Salaam
- Capital
- Tanzanian Shilling (TZS)
- Currency
- 36,232,074
- Population
- TZ
- Country Code
Iringa
Travel Blogs from Iringa, Tanzania
starting to feel at home...
So i have now had some more time learing swahili, we're going at a really fast pace which is good but tiring. Generally though I'm having a really good time, I couldn't ask for better people to be here with, we all get on really well. We've had many ...
Masimbwe life
Where do I start? Food sounds as good as any seen as my tummy is rumbling now. Wierd as it seems I have put on weight, Me and Inno have been cooking up feasts every day and we have even got ourselves a few ...
Back to work
... 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 ...
Week 6- Situational Analysis at Lugarawa!
... of sustainability. We were all really excited about the concept! Defiantly a productive afternoon! Also we were offered a lift back to Iringa with him YAY!!! No slow uncomfortable bus ride!!! The next day (final day of sit analysis) we had accidentally ...
Week 9- A week in village
Well week 9 was almost a week of nothingness really. Village life is defiantly slow, but so far i really dont mind it. We still have no home but im really starting to get along with my partner Rehema really well! Thanks Will! (i get the feeling that Will ...
Harrowing Drive to Iringa
Every day feels like a week. Last night we were driving to Iringa, a drive they said would take 4-6 hours . It takes more like 9-10. Plus a semi broke down and blocked the road. Cars trying to pass by driving up the side of the hill on an incredible ...
Finally here!!
I am finally here, and actually writing an entry - sorry!! I have been here for just over 2 weeks now, and am currently in Iringa, after nearly two days either on a plane or in an airport, a day at the airport waiting for our lost luggage in Dar - ...
Its getting hotter again
Another day in the saddle, amazing camp site run by an Englishman who had walked round the world. Sorry not much happening apart from riding and sleeping. ...
Well that's one way to get home
Having been four years since I spent a month travelling round Tanzania I struggle to remember exact details about my expidition. However you don't spend that much time travelling without coming home with a few anecdotes. I don't know whether this can ...
Whole chickens
We weren't looking all that forward to this stop as other trucks had told us that it would be freezing cold but wasn't that bad to be honest. This was just a stop on the way north and there was nothing to do, and no time in any case. Dinner involved ...
Teaching, relaxing, about to have some fun !!!!!
... help assist him. I told him that I would be more then happy too. At the seminar. the NGO Enterprise Works located in Iringa came and delivered the village of Kikombo 5000 trees . So at the seminar me, Steve, and representatives of ...
Into Tanzania
Leaving Malawi and entering Tanzania, we were in another stretch where the sole purpose was to get somewhere else. The campsite at Iringa, though, provided a beautiful sunset and the hottest showers since Cape Town, so the day wasn't completely wasted! ...
Trying to get things done in my village !!!
... system in my village and to give kids all the resources that they need to succeed. Education is the future of Tanzania. Better education will help produce more doctors, lawyers, engineers, entreupreners; people who will help eliminate the "third ...
A packed Landrover and a village called Kipaduka
... understood the importance of taking their medication and when to take the ARVs. Two years ago when I visited Tanzania I had a similar experience with a mobile HIV clinic except there were more unhealthy looking patients than healthy. ...
I'm doing big things in my village !!!
Kimweni everyone !!! I'm sorry for taking a long time to update my blog. Its been a great and busy two months and I have allot to tell you so just bear with me. In January, I attended a PEPFAR conference ( Presidents emergency plan for aids ...
Moving, moving
Rode the bus for a good 7 hours or so and jumped off at Iringa. Didn't do anything all that exciting, just walked around the market, got some food, changed money, etc. Seems like a nice enough place, I'll keep you posted on my journey to ...
Ilula Hospital
Ok, I've got, like four minutes to tell you a couple of things and I promise to update with photos (if at all possible) as soon as I can. Right now the bus is waiting for me and I seem to be holding everyone up. We are delivering babies ...
From Dar to Iringa
During the ten hour bus ride to Iringa, I called Sally and Paul Harris to let them know I was on the way. Paul said - "Sally said to buy toilet paper at the lunch break.... Oh, the toilet paper is for you." It made me a little apprehensive to think that ...
A Few Things I'd Forgotten
The Ilula rain, the smell of it fresh fallen from the misty mountainous sky. The mixed scent of cooking fires, mud, body odor and diesel (ahh… the attributes of a developing country). The sound of the frogs and crickets at night, the never ...
Roast Beef
Long drive through Tanzania to the Old Farmhouse. This was a working farm. We arrived quite late, went for a short walk around the farm. Rach befriended a Labrador puppy. It tried to bite me. Apparently trying to pick up a bone a dog believes ...
Lights out
A long drive day. We crossed the border in to Tanzania early in the morning and drove over 500km through the day. There was some change in the scenery - parts were quite lush and green, and we climbed a lot of hills. We stayed the night at a campsite near ...
Last week in the city (i.e partying).
Sawa, last few days left in good old Iringa, a place I have definately grown to love. In some ways life has been too good here and I think I have been over complacent making it hard to leave for real this time. I now have six months in my little beauty of ...
Back in Iringa - Feb
... down to a little outside bar for some drinks, which was really nice. I can't believe my 18th is this Saturday, and I'm here in Tanzania. It's insane, but we have some pretty good plans - yay.. which are to make pizza at Krista's house for lunch, then head ...
Volunteering to the MAX!
... and Saturday our weekends are the busiest time of all. Being a bording school the students are from the major cities in Tanzania, bringing with them a slight swager and attitude, which I actually love. Our first lesson, when we walked into the class, ...
Entry no 1
... nice 9 hour flight in club (thanks richard!) we got to dar where we were taken to a bus station and exposed to my first tanzania breakfast, i had some sweet bread and after trying some of Leos I was converted to a whole fish fried, it was much better ...
London - Iringa - Lutheran Church, Mlandege!
... with the other English and American volunteers, and was put straight on a public bus for the eight hour ride to Iringa in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. I spent the ride falling in and out of sleep, but what I did see was stunning, as I hope you can ...
Training for the big time
Been through the first week of training now, which has been full on, mostly 12 hour days. However I have to say I much prefer it that way and have been having a wicked time. The most memorable moments of this week for me; Firstly has been doing ...
Day 63: Road to Tanzania!
... more sleep… we eventually got a space to lie down and had some sleep. At 10am we arrived at the border of Malawi and Tanzania. Exit was straight forward and we went back to the truck, but around there, some of our friends have found an ...
15th Jan
I am now at my hoemstay and have startyed swahili classes, my homestay is a woman who has kids that have already moved out, im dissapointed I dont have kids to play with and to teach me. Instead it's her, her auntie who is 85 and finds me hilarious ...
The Artist, The President and The Football Team
... , chicken vaccinations, pregnancy tests, students being sent to clean the farms, and now the president himself! Football in Tanzania is serious. Grown men suddenly turn into petulant children. Fans turn into soldiers. Referees wish the ground ...