Kigoma Vacations, Kigoma Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

There isn’t much to do in Kigoma which is the main town on the Lake Tanganyika; most of the foreigners here are missionaries, aid workers and very few NGO's. So with my friends (the craziest group in the region (lol)), we try once in a while to change our routine from parties at each other's house to a BBQ at the beach... I say "try" cause we often talked about making it as a tradition, but then... then we opt for house diner/party... So this is one of our few BBQ at ...

When they called me for a position in TZ, I was really excited; I have never been in this part of Africa …. Dar es Salaam…ouaw I was actually going to live for a whole year in Dar… So I arrived in TZ in September, did my check-in and all the administrative bla bla bla. The next thing I knew, I was being transferred to a place I never even heard of….Kigoma!!!I must admit when I reached Kigoma and saw that there was only one main road from the airport to the town, no decent restaurant (...

1- It's dangerous. Not super-dangerous. Probably even safe by any rational standards. But, the peace is young (a month or so), life is not entirely calm (mass arrests a couple of weeks ago) and though not much, that's enough to give one pause. 2- It won't be as much ffun as I think. The lonely planet make Bujumbura out to be a hotbed of social nactivity and fine-dining. The internet is somewhat some sagguine. Now I think that one could runwild in Buj for a weekend, but it would require...

It’s a town in suburb of Kigoma city, on Lake Tanganyika. Ujiji was an important settlement of Arab and Swahili ivory and slave traders between c.1850 and c.1890. The explorer Henry M. Stanley successfully ended his search for David Livingstone at Ujiji on 1871. “Dr. Livingstone I presume? “, the immortal greetings from British-born American explorer Henry Morton Stanley to an exhausted Dr David Livingstone. A greeting that made this little part of TZ still talked about....