Day 01
Moshi Cycling Tour through Villages, Fields and Rau Forest
- You'll start your bike tour around 9:00 am. You will receive enough advice and instruction on how Tanzanian roads work so you can ride safely.
- You'll ride through Moshi and see native people and their daily life, cycling in the Majengo district of Moshi, the heartland of Moshi craft. From here, you'll pass through the small farms and family houses of the Msaranga area.
- You will have the opportunity to help local field workers. You'll certainly appreciate how much hard work goes into a sack of rice as you pass through the rice fields and experience the work being done there in Mandaka Village. After this short labour, you will enjoy a delicious lunch hosted by a friendly local family. You'll enjoy pilau, a traditional rice-based Tanzanian meal, as you relax with your host family on their shady verandah.
- Once you've rested and fuelled up, it's time to 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. You won't be the first to wonder how fluffy a monkey's tail can be.
- If the weather is good, you will be able to enjoy a great view of Kilimanjaro while sipping a cold beer from the railway station bar, Kona Bar. This will be the final stop before your ride back into town.
