Escape to Tanzania’s little Switzerland

8^th August

This time we decided to escape to Tanzania’s little Switzerland. We started our trip early morning at about 3:30 am. In this cool and silent mooring our drive was quite fast. There were no traffic and not many police on the road to bother us. We reached Korogwe about 8:30am and had our breakfast at Kilimanjaro Fast Food restaurant. This is a newly build facility with huge parking place especially for long distance traverse and public busses. Place is clean and well maintained. 

On our way we enjoyed the colors of the skies and the rising sun.

By 9:30 we reached Mombo junction (where you have to turn to go to Lushoto). We booked the Mamob View point lodge for our stay. As the maps in lodge website indicated, we tried to reach there through Ikomasi. Since the rood was not good we call the lodge to confirm the route. They told us the road has washed away and we should use the route via Lushoto. Therefore we had to turn back. We used the rough road through the Usumbara Mountain. By the sides of the road there were huge Pine tree plantations. There were no many people on the roads. From Lushot to Mamob it is about 65Km. As we move forward we found that road condition becoming worse. After Shume we were not able to proceed. We were almost got stuck. Therefore we changed our plane and turn back to go to Lushoto to find place to stay overnight. Make thing worse we got a puncher and delayed our return to Lushoto.

Around 4:30 we reached Magamba area and started searching for a place to stay overnight. After calling several place we decided to stay in Swiss Farm cottages. We reached there around 5pm. Exhausted us were welcomed and escorted to our executive cottages. The cottage was very beautiful. Temperature was about 10C. We ordered our dinner early. We were quite tired due whole day travel. We refreshed until the dinner was severed.

Evening was cloudy but by the time passed sky get cleared. We were lucky enough to see the Milky Way Galaxy over the swiss farm cottages.

We went to bed early hoping to have more adventures on the next day.

9^Th August

After a good night sleep we got up bit late and had our breakfast.  We decided to go on a hike to see the Mvuezi Waterfalls. One our way we were greeted by local people. It took about 2 hour to reach the falls.

After photographing the falls we return back to lodge using Moto bike Taxi (It called Pikipiki Kiswahili language).

About 2:30pm we had our lunch. Food was really nice. Vegetates were really fresh.

In the evening we walked in the Swiss farm and enjoyed the views.

Follow by the love dinner we went to bed early.

10^th August

Breakfast was served at about and 8:30 am at the restaurant. After that we enjoyed the views at Swiss farm and photographed beautiful flowers and insets in the garden.

After settling the bill, we started our journey back to Dar es Salaam around 12:30. On our way we stopped at Sony to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. Price is almost half the price in Dar. Our drive was slow due to the tire punches got about 30 Km before Msata. We stopped at Mbwewe and Msata to get the tiers fixed. That delayed our trip a lot. We reached Bagamoy about 9pm and stop at a restaurant to have dinner. After having the dinner we started our journey back. We reached Dar at 11:00pm and ended our adventures trip to Tanzania’s little Lushoto.

Bugs	Textures in Nature	Dawn @ Swiss Farm Cottages

Potato Farm	Swis Farm Cotteges	Dusk @ Swiss Farm Cottages