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City in Iringa Region, Tanzania
Photo: Matt Crypto, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Iringa is a town in the Southern Highlands, Tanzania. It’s a district capital, an important agricultural center, and the gateway for visiting Ruaha National Park or other Southern circuit safari parks. Once away from the main street, with its congestion and hustlers, it’s also an extremely likeable place, with an attractive bluff-top setting, healthy climate, and bracing highland feel.
A great restaurant in a great centre. Good food, large portions at a good price. Amazing coffee and cakes. European and Tanzanian dishes to suit all tastes. All the staff are deaf which adds a twist to ordering and the service is great. Games available, a great kids corner and play house, sofas, book exchange for your holiday reading and a useful library of development literature for those who have an interest in this area. Voted the best restaurant in the world by the UK Telegraph newspaper in 2010! Not bad for Iringa! Often stage evening events, concerts etc, keep your eyes open for these, always great fun.
Out of town on the way to Dar Es Salaam you will find a great campsite next to the Little Ruaha River. Serving a Western/Tanzanian blend of locally sourced food and open to bookings for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Booking recommended. Day visitors are also welcome to bring picnics and enjoy the woodland and hills next to the river.
Quality Greek and European cuisine. Playground facilities and garden. Perfect spot for families.
yes this really is the heart of Iringa
A fantastic guest house in their centre. It is the first disabled-run guest house in the world as far as they know and definitely the first in Africa! Rates: single TSh 25,000 a night B&B, double/twin Tsh 45,000 and family room (double and bunk bed) TSh 65,000. The rooms are large & all ensuite with pressurized water and electric showers so a good hot high flow shower, a rare luxury and the views great and it will have WiFi and a great internet cafe on site as well as their great restaurant. Safe parking too. Turn off the main road at the clock tower roundabout just past the post office.
Down the hill from Neema crafts, just been refurbished and reopened, much above the old style backpackers haunt, now one of the most comfortable places to stay in Iringa. TSh 25,000 a night.
Out of town on the way to Dar Es Salaam you will find a great campsite next to the Little Ruaha River. With Ensuite Banda and Tented Banada accommodation and serving a Western/Tanzanian blend of food. Booking recommended +255 787 111 663. Day visitors are also welcome to bring picnics and enjoy the woodland and hills next to the river.
Non-governmental organization Doctors with Africa CUAMM (60 years of sanitarian development projects in different countries in Africa, in Tanzania since the 1970s) offers accommodation in a really comfortable mixed Italian-African style guest house. Staying here you also support their projects.
The workshop employs deaf people who produce elephant dung paper products (cards, albums, etc.), beaded bits and bobs (bracelets, earrings, flip flops) including stuff from their beads they make from recycling glass bottles (ask to go and see their cool mud kiln), cushions, vitenge patchwork blankets, lamps and lamp shades, and have employed disabled folks who are weaving rugs, hammocks, and various other interesting textiles. Their projects include micro solar panels for lighting, radios and charging phones, very useful if you are camping, and a physiotherapy unit for disabled children. You can help the physiotherapy unit by having a fantastic hour long massage for Tsh 25,000 from their bubbly physio Beatrice and you can lie there and relax in your pampering knowing the money you are paying is going to allow more disabled children to get treated for free! Along with the obvious benefits of providing employment to people that Tanzanian society has rejected, the products are excellent and make great presents! Haruna, a hilarious character, will be happy to give you a guided tour, and they have a café selling proper coffee and homemade cakes, ice cream and sorbets if that tickles your fancy; Their panini bacon and avocado sandwiches and the carrot cake draw expat volunteers from all over the south of Tanzania who also stock up on their reading materials at the book exchange in the cafe. Also they are the center for a great project to bring safe drinking water to rural villages using the sun, (SODIS.ch) so drop off any empty 1½-liter drinking water bottles you may have and they can make use of them.
Has a 24-hour Mastercard/Visa Card ATM.
Has a 24-hour Mastercard/Visa Card ATM.
Has a 24-hour Mastercard/Visa Card ATM.
Has a 24-hour Mastercard/Visa Card ATM.
You can get to Iringa by bus from Dar es-Salaam, Dodoma, and Mbeya. There are many bus companies, the best and recommended bus companies to Iringa are ABC, Al Saedy, Deluxe and Chaula
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