Arusha

After a 3-day-visit to Nakuru I went back to Nairobi again. Around the 4-th, Jan.

I got a Matatu class lux, and got out in Westlands in Nairobi. I wanted to go to Kisumu from Nakuru, but there was no transportations due to the situation in the whole country. I decided to leave for Tanzania.

With the help of a taxi driver, luckily, I found a tanzanian shuttle bus that was heading for Arusha and waiting for passengers near the Jevanjee Gardens on street Monrovia. After some time, we drove to the south with a full carriage foreigners - Chinese as me, Russian, Belorussian, Germans, Kenyans, Tanzanians, American and a big group of tourists from South Korea.

Close to the borderline with Tanzania, I saw some Maasai towns and many Maasai people. Their clothes and decoration were so beautiful and variegated. And the bodily form - so neat!

Travel guide "Lonely Planet® Tanzania",
on a background of Arusha National Park.
Arusha region, Tanzania

It took us about 40 minutes to pass the borderline in both side. After about 5 hours from go-off, we got to Arusha, and found a church-run hostel called "Centre house hostel". A charming tanzanian girl named Veneranda in this hostel pleased me with Tanzanian immediately.

A small country church,
on the backgroud of Kilimanjaro.
Nairobi road, Arusha region, Tanzania

The following days I spent in Arusha National Park, and by the Nairobi road to some Maasai settlement. Arusha is a good place that it attracts many expats to live here. Here has my favorite chinese restaurant in Tanzania - Everest, chef cook of which from province Sichuan, China.

Weather here is very good, not hot, nor wet, and no mosquitoes. It is a little hotter than in Nairobi. Anyway, the climate reminds me like home, in Yunnnan province.