Day 01
Cycling Through Moshi, Rau Forest, and the Old Railway Station
- Your journey takes you through fields of growing rice, one of Tanzania's staple foods, where you have the opportunity to help the local field workers. Enjoy the product of your labour with a tasty lunch of pilau, a traditional rice-based Tanzanian meal, as you relax 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 pass by. You will not be the first to wonder just how fluffy a monkey's tail can be.
- Once through the shady canopy of Rau Forest, your last stop is the old railway station. You might feel as though you have stepped back one hundred years to German colonial times; close your eyes, and you can still sense the energy and bustle echoing down the century. With some luck, you will have a 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.
