Day 01
Moshi Town, Rice Fields and Rau Forest by Bike
- Start the day by getting comfortable with your bike in the company of your guide. Receive comprehensive advice and instructions on negotiating Tanzanian roads so that you feel confident and safe while out riding.
- Dive right into the bustling daily life of Moshi, cycling at a leisurely pace to the Majengo district, the heartland of Moshi craft. Check out the dizzying array of local crafts and hand-made goods artfully arranged at the roadside.
- Pass through the small farms and family houses of the Msaranga area, taking in the daily activities of schools, mosques, and churches as you ride by.
- Go through fields of growing rice, one of Tanzania's staple foods, and have an opportunity to help the local field workers. Gain an appreciation of how much hard work goes into a sack of rice.
- Enjoy the product of your, albeit short, labour with a tasty lunch hosted by a friendly local family. Also enjoy pilau, a traditional rice-based Tanzanian meal, as you chill out with your host family on their shady verandah.
- Continue your bike ride through Rau Forest, a jewel of protected tropical woodland alive with birdsong and the calls of animals. Keep an eye out for the black-and-white faces of colobus monkeys peering curiously at you as you go by.
- Stop at the old railway station. You might feel as though you've stepped back one hundred years to German colonial times; close your eyes and sense the energy and bustle echoing down the century.
- Admire the great view of Kilimanjaro while sipping a cold beer from the railway station bar, a lovely final stop before your ride back into town, where you can finally rest your weary but happy legs.
