| This Village on Mount Kilimanjaro is not for | | | | is cooler up here and so very quiet. I love to visit |
| tourists. This is for your hardened traveler. | | | | this place where there are no tourists at all. |
| Someone who wants to see a place untouched | | | | Everyone is so friendly and you really feel you |
| by commercialization; unspoiled and clean; a place | | | | are experiencing something special; something that |
| that has magic and something to share. Tourist | | | | not many tourists get to see. There are still some |
| by definition tend to rush from one place to the | | | | large traditional houses here, made from dried |
| next not really experiencing anything; not seeing | | | | banana leaves - no windows, one door only and a |
| anything. One destination blurring into the next; | | | | chimney up through the centre of the roof. |
| everything beginning to look the same, yesterday | | | | It is hard to take it all in; African mountains are |
| the same as today which will be the same as | | | | just so very special. Be careful to look where you |
| tomorrow. | | | | walk and where you stand as the lines of large |
| This village in Northern Tanzania it is a place | | | | ants cross the paths and should you inadvertently |
| where you have to walk to experience the life of | | | | stand on one of these lines - the ants [large ants] |
| the community. No safari vehicles here. | | | | will climb up your legs and begin to chew. |
| Only half an hour from Moshi Town in northern | | | | This village is an ideal place to spend a day with a |
| Tanzania is this special place where coffee and | | | | local family and even sleep for the night. This is a |
| bananas are grown to sustain life. People here are | | | | cultural tour, a real cultural experience, not the |
| poor and life is hard. We as visitors can never | | | | pseudo-cultural tour offered by many tour |
| appreciate how hard that life can be. | | | | operators. If you have the time add a week or |
| The best way to reach this place by local bus | | | | two [or longer] onto your safari and spend time |
| from the centre of Moshi Town. As you wind | | | | working in the local clinic - a new addition to the |
| your way up this rather unfashionable side of | | | | village - or at the local primary school. To do this |
| Mount Kilimanjaro, the bus shuddering every inch | | | | you are giving something to the village they will |
| of the way; ever upward; you will notice how | | | | learn from you; as you will learn from them. You |
| green and fertile the surroundings have become. | | | | will learn a lot about yourself as you spend time in |
| Anything will grow here on this fertile land. It rains | | | | this chagga culture high above the bustling town |
| often on the mountain and the green of the | | | | bellow. |
| scenery is a sharp contrast to the dusty browns | | | | If you want to see and experience African |
| left behind in Moshi Town. | | | | Culture then this village is an ideal place. Set on |
| When the bus finally gives up the journey begins | | | | Kilimanjaro and close to the tourist area; yet set |
| with a 15 to 20 minute walk ever upwards. There | | | | apart and untouched as yet from the throng of |
| are some spectacular views to be glimpsed | | | | commercialization. |
| through the trees of Moshi Town far far bellow. It | | | | |