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Catholic Museum
About 2km north of town and reached via a long, mango-shaded avenue is the Catholic mission and museum, one of Bagamoyo’s highlights. In the same compound is the chapel where Livingstone’s body was laid before being taken to Zanzibar Town en route to Westminster Abbey. The mission
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Natural History Museum
This museum inside the old German boma (a fortified living compound), completed in 1900, has three parts. The best is the wing dedicated to the evolution of humans, since much of what we know about the topic came from fossils unearthed in Tanzania. There are also displays on insect
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Old Slave Market
The Anglican cathedral was built on the site of the old slave market alongside Creek Rd. Although nothing remains of the slave market today, other than some holding cells under St Monicas Hostel next door, the site remains a sobering reminder of the not so distant past. Services ar
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Gangilonga Rock
This large rock northeast of town is where Chief Mkwawa meditated and where he learned that the Germans were after him. Its name, gangilonga, means ‘talking stone’ in Hehe. It’s an easy climb to the top, with views over town. Iringa Info or staff at Neema Craft Centre Internet Cafe
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Mwaloni Market
Mwaloni Market, under the roof with the giant Balimi ad, is quite a spectacle. The city’s main fish market also has lots of fruits and vegetables, most shipped in on small boats from surrounding villages, and there are almost as many marabou storks as vendors. Photography is prohib
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Mosques
Misikiti wa Balnara is the oldest of Stone Town’s many mosques, originally built in 1831, enlarged in 1841 and extended again by Seyyid Ali bin Said, the son of Sultan Seyyid Said, in 1890. Others include the Aga Khan Mosque and the impressive Ijumaa Mosque. It’s not permitted to e
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Centre for African Development through Economics & the Arts
This excellent little museum is full of masks, spears, tools and other cultural items from the Makonde, Makua and Yao tribes. All displays are labelled in English and Swahili. This is also the best place to get information on the annual Makuya Festival ([email protected]). F
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Meserani Snake Park
The collection of snakes and other reptiles here is the main draw, but there’s also a corny yet informative Maasai cultural museum with mock-ups of home and bush life, which you’ll visit with a Maasai warrior. You can also take a 30-minute camel ride (per person Tsh15,000) to a Maa
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Maruhubi Palace
This once-imposing palace, 4km north of Zanzibar Town, was built by Sultan Barghash in 1882 to house his large harem. In 1899 it was almost totally destroyed by fire, although the remaining ruins (primarily columns that once supported an upper terrace, an overhead aqueduct and smal
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Market Area
Iringa’s market is piled high with fruits and vegetables, plus other wares, including large-weave, locally made Iringa baskets. On its southern edge, in front of the police station, is a monument honouring Africans who fell during the Maji Maji uprising between 1905 and 1907. West
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Daraja la Mungu (Bridge of God)
South of Ngozi Peak and west of the main road, this natural bridge is estimated to have been formed around 1800 million years ago by water flowing through cooling lava that spewed out from the nearby Rungwe volcano. The bridge spans a small waterfall. Further south along the Kiriwa
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Songo Mnara
Songo Mnara, offshore from Kilwa Masoko and about 8km south of Kilwa Kisiwani, contains ruins at its northern end that are believed to date from the 14th and 15th centuries. They are considered in some respects to be more significant architecturally than those at Kilwa Kisiwani, w
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Arusha National Park
Arusha National Park is one Tanzania’s smallest (322 sq km) but most beautiful and topographically varied northern circuit parks. It’s dominated by Mt Meru , an almost perfect cone with a spectacular crater. Also notable is Ngurdoto Crater (often dubbed Little Ngorongoro) with its
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St Pauls Church
If you are in the Majengo area of Mtwara, its worth stopping in at St Paul’s church to view its remarkable artwork. The entire front and side walls are covered with richly coloured biblical scenes painted by a German Benedictine priest, Polycarp Uehlein, in the mid-1970s. In additi
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Chumbe Island Coral Park
The uninhabited island of Chumbe, about 12km south of Zanzibar Town, has an exceptional shallow-water coral reef along its western shore that abounds with fish life. Since 1994, when the reef was gazetted as Zanzibar’s first marine sanctuary, the island has gained widespread acclai
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Old Dispensary
With its peppermint-green latticework balconies and sculpted clock tower, the most attractive landmark on the waterfront is this late-19th-century charitable dispensary. It was built by Tharia Topan, a prominent Ismaili Indian merchant who also acted as financial adviser to the sul
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Saadani National Park
About 70km north of Bagamoyo along a lovely stretch of coastline, and directly opposite Zanzibar, is tiny Saadani , a 1000-sq-km patch of coastal wilderness that is one of Tanzania’s newest national parks. Unpretentious and relaxing, it bills itself as one of the few spots in the c
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Kilwa Kisiwani
Today, Kilwa on the Island is a quiet fishing village, but in its heyday it was the centre of a vast trading network linking the old Shona kingdoms and the gold fields of Zimbabwe with Persia, India and China. While these days are now well in the past, the ruins of the settlement,
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Neema Crafts
This vocational training centre for young deaf and disabled people is operated by the Anglican church and sells beautiful crafts, handmade paper and cards, jewellery, quilts, clothing, batiks and more. Behind the craft shop is a weaving workshop, and adjoining is a popular cafe . F
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Robert Koch Hill
Smack in the city centre is Robert Koch Hill, with an attractively decrepit German-built mansion at the top. Several Maasai now live here, but if you introduce yourself and give them a small donation (Tsh5000 should be okay), you can look around. To get here, push through the bustl
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