Places to see in town: Neema Crafts (www.neemacrafts.com) workshop is a
must. Make sure you have a tour of the workshops to see this amazing project
for the disabled. paper making (from elephant dung!), weaving, candle
making, recyling glass bottles to make beads for beaded jewellery. A great
cafe serving fresh ground coffee, real delicious and safe ice cream, cakes
to die for and lovely light lunches and a book exchange to top up on your
holiday reading, This is a great place to network, especially with NGO
workers who come to use their Development library in the cafe. Also they
have a fabulous physiotherapy unit for disabled people.
Also in town, Gangilonga rock if well worth the climb, but go in a group.
Hasty Tasty too is a good if little cramped cafe. The market is also one of
the best in Tanzania, visit the 'basket market' for the traditional Iringa
Baskets.
There is a good international school here (Iringa international school)
catering for nursery to 15 yr olds.
_______Sights
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When in Iringa check out Neema Crafts Workshop and Cafe. It employs more
than 60 disabled people making beautiful handicrafts, you can tour their
workshop and eat in the great gallery cafe serving georgeous real ice cream,
great chocolate cake, soups and best of all Italian Panini toasted
sandwiches in beautiful rosmary bread. Wash all this down with local teas or
their local fresh ground coffee!!! Then buy some handmade elephant dung
paper products, jewellery, or woven items. It is really not to be missed.
Soon they will have a new building with Gym and hair-dressing salon catering
for european style hair! plus other beauty treatments all done by disabled
people.
_______Getting There
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There are several daily buses from Dar es Salaam and daily connections from
Mbeya, Kyela, Songea, Njombe and Dodoma . There is also a direct bus from
Moshi – Arusha, although run by a company with a very bad reputation. The
road from Dar es Salaam and Morogoro is tarmac and of good quality, as is
its continuation to Mbeya. For the Dodoma road only a fourwheeldrive can be
recommended. Iringa airport is not served by any regular flights. |
