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On our way to Dodoma, we made a short stop at Igeleke to see ancient rock paintings. We hired a tuk-tuk to get to the site (5,000 TZS) and picked up a man with keys (🎟️10,000 TZS; 📞+255766662777, 📞+255763540698)) on our way there. The ochre drawings depict human figures, an elephant, a...
Brigitte was our guide today, who took us through the story of Neema Crafts in Iringa. It was established by Susie Hart MBE in 2003, who was born with a disability and recognised the need for employment opportunities for others with disabilities. However, the Neema Crafts centre is also a...
We spent a day in Iringa, a small city situated at 1,600 meters on a cliff overlooking the Ruaha River Valley. Iringa – once built by the Germans as a bastion against the local Hehe people – is now a convenient base for the southern parks of Tanzania, notably Ruaha National Park, the...
We spent several days driving on the TanZam Highway, built between 1968 and 1973, with financing from a joint effort between Sweden, the World Bank, and the International Development Association (IDA) for sections in Tanzania, and loans from the United Kingdom and the World Bank for...
After a lovely stay in Morogoro, we drove on the TanZam Highway to Tanzania’s fourth-largest national park, Mikumi National Park, a highly accessible, year-round destination renowned for its picturesque plains dotted with baobab and acacia trees, reminiscent of the Serengeti. Within its...
The Mkwawa Rally of Tanzania took place from September 19-21, 2025, in Morogoro and was the fifth and final round of the African Rally Championship (ARC) for 2025. The rally featured challenging gravel stages within the Tanzania Forest Services (TFS) plantation, attracting drivers from...