NIMEONA: KILI-GALLERY,DAILY UPDATED

For those of you who are used to the greenery associated with the Kilimanjaro region and the notion that simply because the mountain is snow capped then water comes naturally to the inhabitants at the lower periphery,here is an alternative landscape of the Kilimanjaro region exactly 20 kilometers from Moshi town,at Kilototoni villag.

Old Books stall,Moshi.

The Union Cafe,coffee bar is the latest in the series of coffee bars in Moshi town.

Moshi Bus terminal.

Tourists seeking financial services at Stanbic Bank.

Preparing safari gear for Climbing The Kilimanjaro.

Mending and cleaning tents for trekking support,Moshi.

Getting ready for a safari,Moshi.

A mzungu on a 'bodaboda'(motorcycle taxi),Himo.

Roman Catholic church,Kibosho Parish.

DeliChez Restaurant,near Moshi Bus terminal.

Lutheran church,facing Moshi bus terminal.

Sikh Temple,near Moshi bus terminal.

Mosque,Facing Moshi Central bus terminal.

Audio Advertising Van at work in Moshi,near Kiborloni.

Old and active Bedford Tow Truck,Majengo,Moshi

Central Bus Terminal1

Central Bus Terminal,peak hour.Moshi.

Central Bus Terminal,Mini Bus Section,plying Marangu,Rombo,Himo,Same,Mwanga etc.

Kibo Tower,one of the first Local High Rise!

NAKUMATT,Shoppers paradise.

The Notorious Njia Panda weigh Bridge with the chronic truck queue.

NAILED!, this old 3 ton Bedford is at the Moshi Rural District offices for the obvious!!

LOOK at how heartless tree poachers can be,is the load proportional to the truck?

'Soko la Juu' market

Tools of inebriation(lol),drinking gourds under preparation for selling MBEGE,the traditional brew of the Chagga people.Kilema

The Moshi Fire Brigade,you are assured of an IMMEDIATE response and effective solution to a fire breakout around town(note the vintage Bedford fire tender from colonial times)

Workers doing routine maintenance at Chele springs intake that feeds Kilema-Mandaka water project

Applying chemicals to a coffee plantation in Chibo estate near Mweka College of African Wildlife .

Applying bitumen to Kibosho road near Kindi,Kibosho

A queue for washing porridge mugs at Nduoni primary School,Kilema Masaera

Hon.Augustine Lyatonga Mrema,MP for Vunjo (TLP) giving a speech at Mwangaria Institute of Agriculture,Kahe.

THE GLORY OF THE NGORONGORO CRATER ECOSYSTEM

IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN THERE YOU CAN FEED YOUR EYES HERE

The history of the Kilimanjaro mountain (Royal Version) including its discovery and its having been a 'BIRTHDAY PRESENT' once,also the history of the coffee plant, THE FIRST COFFEE TREE IS STILL STANDING TODAY AT THE KILEMA CATHOLIC MISSION IN KILEMA JUU,IT WAS PLANTED IN 1898 AS THE TEXT SAYS.

All these intriguing facts are available at the south entrance to the KNCU building in Moshi,where the Coffee tree hotel is housed.

DIRECTIONS AND DISTANCES (IN MILES!)

Portrait of the K.N.C.U building with the Mountain in the background

THE SOURCE OF YOUR STARBUCKS CUP CONTENTS UNEARTHED!

Mandaka Catholic Parish church

Taking a ride,could holding the cane instead of the bike frame compromise safety?

The History of the Mighty Kilimanjaro

SCULPTURES OF MURRAM,

its also an occupation to carve building blocks out of hills and sell them while collecting the fallout from the proceedings and sell as gravel

Volunteers from the Senior Experten Service(SES) organisation from German who are attached to Kibosho Hospital for work in the dental department enjoying a meal(Kuku choma) at Kilacha canteen near Himo in Moshi