Iringa

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Top Places to Visit

The Rock Paintings At Kombangulu

The rock paintings at Kombangulu. About 10 kilometers from town towards Dodoma on the Dodoma Road. To visit, take a 'Kilolo' bound dala dala from Posta asking ... more

Isimila Stone Age Site

Isimila Stone Age Site. About 15 kilometers from town towards Mafinga, easily accessible by daladala or taxi. This is one of the most interesting stone age ... more

Neema Crafts Centre

Neema Crafts Centre is a great place to visit with cafe with great cake and fresh ground coffee, a tour of the workshops is great to see all the different ... more

Gangilonga Rock

Gangilonga Rock (talking stone). This large rock gives you great views over Iringa. To get to it you have to walk out past Lulu's/bakery/Ruaha Club way through ... more

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Top Places to Eat

Saivilla

Saivilla Sai Villa. In a bit of a remote location. It is Indian run and offers authentic Indian food along with a variety of other dishes. Its on the expensive ... more

Lulu’s

Lulu’s - One of the highlights of Lulu’s is the soft scoop ice cream if the machine is working, In addition they have the usual range of Indian, Chinese and ... more

Shooters

Shooters which was known as "bottoms up", is under new management and has a new decor and similar stuff to what the previous owner had. It has a restaurant and ... more

Sajuu’s Home Restaurant

Sajuu’s Home Restaurant – It feels homely and you can amuse yourself with Tanzanian soap operas (“Camilla is having a hemorrhage…”). Cheap Tanzanian food is ... more

Aashiana Restaurant

Aashiana Restaurant - Here you will find a mixture between Indian and Tanzanian food. It is not to expensive but you also won't get amazing food.

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Top Shopping Places

Neema Crafts

Neema Crafts is a great project. The workshop employs deaf people who produce elephant dung paper products (cards, albums, etc), beaded bits and bobs (bracelets... more

Iringa Bakery

Iringa Bakery (next to Lulu’s). Sells amazing bread. Opening hours are bizarre – 4 out of every 5 visits ends in disappointment, but when you are successful it ... more

Masai Market

Masai Market – Go and visit Sengai (the unofficial leader of the Iringa Masai) in the Masai market between the Posta and Sokoni. All manner of beaded things, ... more

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Top Places for Nightlife

Miami Beach

Miami Beach. Classic Tanzanian bar and dance hall. The place to go for a little Tanzanian “culture”.

Shooters

Shooters. A great meeting point and the night time social hub. Has sports channels, a pool table and plays fairly loud hiphop/rap/..... Clientèle is a mixture ... more

Twisters

Twisters. Has a similar vibe to Shooters but has a lot less SPW volunteers and is a little more Tanzanian. It also has a pool table and sometimes has live music... more

Luxury Bar

Luxury Bar. The place to go for watching football. It is impossible to describe the atmosphere. Anything up to 500 avid Tanzanian fans crowd into the bar, ... more

Neema Crafts

Neema Crafts. Will often be showing the big matches on the biggest screen in town (but no Alcohol there).

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