Coffee Lodge Arusha

Back in Arusha, we checked into the Moivaro Coffee Lodge, which was a slight step up from the Ilboru. Here we spent a day unwinding and repacking our things for the flight home. We also had a chance to head back into Arusha town and do some last minute ...

... het lijf : een oud jaargenoot van Kaat - It's a small world after all. 's avonds gaan we iets eten in de coffee lodge, de 'sjiekste place in town'. Magen goed gevuld gaan we slapen om morgen uitgerust te beginnen aan het volgende deel van de ...

Spent today on a walking tour of Moivaro and seeing a few sites in Arusha.  We went to the market and were followed by "flycatchers", had lunch at a western style restaurant in downtown ...

... lady measured us and wrote everything down, I realized I left my flash drive back at the TZ Coffee Lounge yesterday. So I quickly ran there before leaving for Arusha. Luckily, the ladies kept it for me. Thank goodness! I'm such a klutz sometimes. Before ...

... and took us to stay at the Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge which was quite splendid. It is on an old established and working coffee estate and was wonderful! That evening Grace decided to go native and get her hair cornbraided and Sandy, who had rediscovered the ...

... compound and the gates opened we immediately saw people congregating at a church next door, motorcycles, and then the streets of Arusha.  People were everywhere just hanging out.  The street was paved but the side walks and were people lived ...

... by neighbors. We watched them work a bit and had a lesson in sign language. Shanga House sits on the oldest coffee plantation in Arusha. It's 110 years old and produces Arabica beans. They have a contract with Starbucks! The coffee trees have white ...

... interesting.  I hear the crater is the thing to see for safari - but I will also mention this in the Zambia part.Arusha is incredibly expensive for a safari - upwards of $200 park entrance fee now i believe.  my travel partner had never been on ...

... to Kilimanjaro International Airport in Tanzania.  We flew via Addis Ababa and Nairobi.  We arrived into Tanzania about 2pm and were met by Felix our diver guide who took us to the Moivaro Coffee Lodge in Moivaro, a village just outside ...

... finally being here the time flew. After a slight detour up a very bumpy road going to the wrong hotel we finally reached Moivaro Coffee Lodge at about 10.30pm. We had a very quick shower and change and came back to the restaurant for dinner. This ...

... and a bathroom with no doors.  Thank goodness for living together for so long. We remember taking a quick shower and saying, 'Good ni.......'  We crashed. Moivaro Coffee Plantation ...

... empfängt uns ein milder Wind. Alles herum blüht, der Frühling ist da.  Wie jedes Mal verbleiben wir die erste Nacht im Moivaro Coffee Plantation Lodge in ruhiger Lage nahe von Arusha, inmitten eines wunderschönen tropischen Gartens.   ...

... amazing place to stay if you want to treat yourself. One link you can have a look at the lodge for is http://www.africanmeccasafaris.com/tanzania/hotels/arusha/moivarolodgeestate.asp. When we all met up we found a very distraught Emily. Her school was ...

... site, ascend to the rim and depart for Lake Manyara, dinner and overnight, Jambo Campsite. Day 6: Lake Manyara – Arusha: After breakfast game drive in Lake Manyara National Park, picnic lunch and mid afternoon departure for Arusha and drop ...

Most people in the immediate village worked for the Lodge/Coffee Plantation. Along our walk we learned about the little village and ran into a bunch of school kids. They of course latched onto us, "Myzungu" (whites) and wanted their picture taken. We ...

... the stay, but I don't think anyone was expecting the kind of luxury with which we were greeted, on our arrival at Moivaro Lodge. Being a typical cash strapped backpacker, it is the kind of place I can only dream about. It was absolute heaven!! There were ...

... just walking down the road to get a big yummy plate of African food is enough for me. Last thursday we went to a place in Arusha called ViaVia, it's a touristy "bar/club" and they had a really cool live band and then later a disco for dancing. We met ...