Morogoro's population is roughly 250,000 people and its the 3rd largest city in Tanzania. Dar Es Salaam is the largest city with approximately 3 million people. This road is about a ten minute walk from where I'm staying in Morogoro and also about 10 minutes by car to the center of the city. This road is actually in very good condition compared to the roads that lead to my "hotel". It is in fact hard for cars to drive up the road to the "hotel" because there is a crater like ditch in the middle of the road about 3 feet deep, which fills with water during the rainy season.
In any event if you take this road west about ten minutes you would arrive at the center of Morogoro. In "downtown" Morogoro you would find the many dukas (shops), and a relatively large and very lively/bustling fruit and vegetable market that is filled with people, many buyers and sellers, eager to sell you their produce. All of the fruits and vegetables are very cheap by American standards, but its still common practice to bargain/negotiate prices with the merchants, which is both fun and good practice!
This Sunday I'm scheduled to hike up to the peak of the mountain in this picture (~2150 meters). Its 9 hours up and down so I imagine it will be quite an adventure if nothing else!:)
3 comments:
Hope you have a great hike.
Glad to see you are having some fun and exercise while you are there...Tommy especially liked the part about the elephants.
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