Hello Tanzania!
Trip Start
Oct 01, 2005
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Trip End
Sep 20, 2006
Iringa, Tanzania
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
We have 2 days of long truck journies as we plough our way up the country towards Dar es Salaam. We have been passing huge banana palms, the most spectacular and dramatic scenery as we go up into the mountains. There are tea plantations with workers plucking the leaves, it's all very green and lush. The landscape changed after just a couple of hundred km from tropical lushness to dry bush. We were still climbing in altitude going up into ever more rugged mountain scenery.
We were heading for the campsite at the Old Farmhouse at Iringa, still 600km away from Dar.
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Tanzania has a different feel already from Malawi. The houses and buildings are, on the whole, more substantial, although there are still the shabby little wooden stalls lining the roads. More and more people are wearing Islamic-style dress - embroidered 'pill-box' caps for the men and head-covering swathes of cloth (almost sari-tyle) for the women. But it's still definitely African. More of the buildings in towns have things like satellite tv dishes too which indicates more wealth than in Malawi.
