Day 22 Bagamoyo - Moshi

December 31, 2015

We drove through the Bagamoyo town to have a look for some barber shop, as Stéphane needed a haircut. It was 31st of December and everything was open early in the morning - markets, food stalls, even restaurants and bars.

 Market in Bagamoyo:

Meet section:

 So we found a barber and Stéphane got good haircut for 0.80 €

Little boy was interested in two white people in the barber and asked us to take photos of him, then he shyly laughed when I showed him the pictures:)

Soon we headed North towards Kilimajaro! Loads of fruit on the sides of the road, this was pineapple country, they were everywhere and a lot! We are not keen on pineapples, but still we got some, and they were just amazing! So sweet and juicy and doesn't make your mouth sore haha:D

In Tanzania there are many roadside restaurants - for tourists and locals, but most of them were locals travelling on the busses and having a break in restaurants like these:

The scenery gets more and more mountainous as we getting more North towards Kilimajaro. Roads are in perfect condition, not a single police car, no speed traps (opposite of Mozambique). One thing that describes Tanzanian roads are speed bumps that are EVERYWHERE! You just can't travel fast even if you wanted. Which is much better than bumping into countless policeman asking for bribes as in Mozambique:D

Here is another typical bus stop place for travellers, where you can go for a lunch, buy some fruit in fruit market or just go to the restroom:

Beautiful Tanzanian road, sometimes we didn't feel we are in Africa, it seems like any western country, and notice, there is no litter anywhere!

Tanzania is very famous for its sisal plantations. It is rich of fiber and has been grown to produce agricultural trine, paper, rope, footware, hats, bags, carpets etc. Tanzania is the second biggest sisal producer in the World after Brazil. It was introduced into Tanzania in 1893 by germans. The plant Agave sisalana was smuggled into Tanganyika from Yucatán, Mexico in the belly of a stuffed crocodile. Only 66 plants had survived the journey but it was commercially viable to start the industry.

Later we went through Moshi village which is famous for those who goes to climb Kilimanjaro. Lots of hotels and lodges, but none of them offered camping. So we headed out of the town. It was getting late and sun started to set. All cows going home:) :

And here it was! Our first glimpse of Kilimanjaro!!!!! Not exactly as in postcards with giraffes and zebras, but still very majestic and magnificent:

Todays last hour on the road we drove in the darkness, which was crazy because Tanzanians don't use any lights on their cars!!! That was mad driving. Finally we found a place to stay which was called Torchbearer, that was out in the countryside. (http://www.torch-bearer.com/) There we met nice old English lady who kindly showed us around. The place was an orphanage, lots of kids. It was new years eve, so we cooked our meal and celebrated our new year next to the Kilimanjaro, which we couldn't see, because it was so dark. But we knew its gonna be the first thing we will see in the morning when we wake up! But that - tomorrow...
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