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Photo: D. Tamino Boehm, assent by email 9+10 June 2014, for license CC-Lizenz by-sa attribution, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Most people come to Kondoa for one thing, to see the rock paintings. Kondoa district is home to one of the largest collections of rock paintings in Africa, which are on the (UNESCO world heritage list). While there are a huge number of sites, most people visit three that are easily accessible from Kolo, a small village about 20 km north of Kondoa.
The Kondoa Rock-Art Sites or Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings are a series of ancient paintings on rockshelter walls in central Tanzania. The Kondoa region was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2006 because of its impressive collection of rock art. These sites were named national monuments in 1937 by the Tanzania Antiquities Department. The paintings are located approximately nine kilometres east of the main highway (T5) from Dodoma to Babati, about 20 km north of Kondoa town, in Kondoa District of Dodoma Region, Tanzania. The boundaries of the site are marked by concrete posts. The site is a registered National Historic Sites of Tanzania.
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