Have you ever visited Mnadani in Dodoma?

Any one visiting Dodoma, the Tanzania’s capital city, will not have his pleasure complete if he/she does not spend a weekend there and use Saturday to visit the famous and popular Mnada (market) where you have the largest gathering of meat eating, drinking and symbiotic petty trading taking place there. This the place where the highly and the lowly sit together to enjoy the taste of roast meat beef, mutton, or pig meat, washed down the throat by the drink of ones choices. Beer, wine, whisky, soda or the traditional liquors, all available in plenty. and you have traditional foods by the Gogo (the native tribe in Dodoma). Mnada is such traditional in its look and design where the siting arrangement is communal, casual shaded by make-shift rickety huts thatched by tarpaulins or plastic sheeting. The day at Mnada starts in a less busy fashion, but as it wears on, you start seeing poshy cars, buses and lorries vomiting people onto the place. When it reaches 17 hours, it is thronged, noisy with orders for fresh supply of meat, drinks or other services filling the air. This is the place you must go if you visit Dodoma.

Handcraft

Tanzania is endowed by people who are highly skilled in making handcrafts like those we see on the pictures. The range from mats, wall decorations, baskets, holders and what have you. They are perfect items for a collector of memorabilia, and can be bought and exported for those interest in such business. We took these photographs at Melela Morogoro. But such products are all over the country.

Kilwa Kisiwani

the old water well, built over 600 years ago. Now the only fresh water source

The Mosque which was used by the Sultan's fanily. It is a perfect sight for historians and tourists, too!

the old Portuguese's fort on rehabilitation. It overlooks that ocean bay use as harbour now.

Kilwa Kisiwani, a quiet Island off Kilwa Masoko. The island housed former arab traders and sultans. On this island you could see the big palace- Husn Kubwa, the Sultan's forte and the prison built by Portuguese overlooking the naturan sea bay. part of which is used used as harbour. The culture is purely Islamic with old mosques, over 600 years ago, and the only drinking water well, of the same age. The water from the well is believed to have magical healing potency, and the two Kiblah's mosque is a pilgramage attraction.

The Art in Bagamoyo

The hut that housed by Body of Livingstone, on its way to England

Apart from being a historical town Bagamoyo is a place populated by all sorts of artists with wood sculptors taking the lead. Visitors to the town will have an opportunity to meet the artists and view pieces of carvings from Makonde and other tibal artists, but all imitating the Makonde style. Please visit Bagamoyo and see all the splendours of fine art, textiles manufacturing- Batiki, Tingatinga and other forms and styles of Painting. Bagamoyo has a large chest of historical landmarks like the hut which housed by body of the English historian, preacher and explorer, David Laving Stone. You are well come

Kaole Ruins

Kaole Ruins in Bagamoyo were the first Persian Settlements along the Coast of Tanganyika, if not East Africa. Today, when you walk around the relics, you find traces of a pious and religious Islamic community with tombs that are still used todate by locals and foreigns to pray for good luck for their marriages, business and any other human undertakings. At the old city, you also see a fresh (non-salted) water well that people still use. It is about 600 years old. Kaole Ruins are a source of attractions for many tourists visiting the old Bagamoyo city. This is

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Tanzania is a country richly endowed w.ith massive natural and historical sites, and an array of cultures that can attract all sorts of tourism, internal and foreign. It is the intention of the Utalii Update (Utalii- is a Kiswahili word for Tourism), to promote these attractions.
In this blog we shall not only post new tourist attractions but will also be updating our visitors with information on what the government and other stakeholders do to promote tourism, conserve environment and make sure that our cultures get a face lift so that they can be showcased as well, attract revenue.
There a lot of tourism attractions in Tanzania that have not been document, undeveloped or left to the vagaries of weather to rot, decay and disappear. This can not be left going on without doing something. Utalii Updates will, with time, engagiung stakeholders to raise funds which will be used to reconstruct of rennovate them. We talking of the Mkwawa Fort, of Kilwa Kisiwani and Bagamoyo's Shiraz Ruins, and such other historical relicts which do not only reflect the development path we went through, but also can be used to gain money from visitors.