Trip to West Cost of Tanzania

Date 13^th August 2010, another busy Friday. We were able to get off from work early. After having lunch, we started our journey to Mlingorini village. It is a fishing village located about 50km north of Dar es Salaam and 15km south of the historical town, Bagamoyo. 

By one and half hours drive we reached to our destination “Bomani Beach Bungalows”. After the warm welcome from Bomani staff, we were given a room which was facing the beach. There after we kept our bags and spend lot of time at beach. The beach was completely sandy with clean water. The breeze always made us feel cool and comfortable. 

Enjoying the cool breeze and view of sunset, we returned to our room to get refreshed. 7:00pm, its dinner time. Dinner was served at the Main restaurant.  We had ordered Bomani style Fish fillet, which was very delicious. Here in Bomani, The chef buys the fish from the local fishermen. Due to this the fish is fresh. After the dinner we return to our room to sleep.

On 14^th Morning we woke up and walked to the beach to enjoy the sun rise. We had our morning tea on the beach. After spending about two hour on the beach, we had our breakfast. Next we walked around Bomani garden and captured photographs of beautiful butterflies and few insects roaming around. Please see my photo stream posted at the end of this post. There after we went for a village walk. During this walk we meet a Traditional healer in the village and had time to visit his healing house.

As per our plan, we went to Bagamoyo historical town on the same day after the village walk. We had our lunch at a restaurant at Bagamoyo and returned back to Bomani Beach Bungalows.

In the evening, Rohan uncle, his wife, Indika and his wife also joined us at Bomani. After having tea we spend most of the evening at the garden and the beach enjoying the cool breeze and viewing the sunset.

On that day after the dinner there was a cultural show in which people from the village danced and sang their traditional songs.

There after we return to our bungalow and had a good night sleep.

Next day morning we all got up, had a wash and spend couple hours at the beach before having our breakfast. We also got a change to sail in the lagoon to a near by island.

At about 10am we checked out from Bomani Beach Bungalows and started our journey to Bagamoyo town to see Kaole ruins (to see more details about Kaole Ruins go to Historical & Archeological Sites page) and Crocodile farm. 

Finally after viewing the historical site we went to a restaurant at Bagamoyo to have our lunch and started our journey back to Dar es Salaam. Due to traffic, we spend about 2 hours returning.

End of another good relaxing weekend at west cost of Tanzania.

Kaole Ruins, Bagamoyo

Kaole Ruins

Kaole Ruins are located just south of historical town Bagamoyo (5km). Those ruins take us back to 13th Century. Kaole was early known as Pumbuji, was the first settlement of the Arabs from Persia in 13th Century.  Ruins have two mosques and several tombs. Tombs are built with coral rag, with columns. One mosque is the remnant of the oldest mosque in East Africa, dating between third and fourth centuries. Just east of the ruins, past a dense stand of mangroves, is the old harbor, now silted, that was in use during Kaole’s heyday.

Miracles Well

The water well in the center of attraction is six meters from the surface and its history is as old as Bagamoyo. There is a myth that the water from this well heals you physically and spiritually. Up to now many visitors come and apply water on their bodies expecting miracles.