Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
some of the treeless, more eroded surrounding areas. After Gare, and as a detour en route to
Lushoto, stop at the village of
Kwai
, where there's a women's pottery project. Kwai was
also an early research post for soil science and erosion-control efforts. Guides for all routes
from Soni can be arranged at Maweni Farm or in Lushoto.
GREETINGS IN KISAMBAA
Onga maundo
Good morning
Onga mshee
Good afternoon
Niwedi
I'm fine (in response to
Onga maundo
or
Onga mshee
)
Hongea (sana)
Thank you (very much)
Sleeping & Eating
Soni Falls Resort
B&B $
( 0715-384603; d/tr/f Tsh37,000/37,000/65,000; ) This place offers three enormous
rooms, all with hardwood flooring and many windows, in an old restored colonial-era
house perched on a hill overlooking the valley. Meals can be arranged. It's about 100m up-
hill from the main junction, just to the right off the beginning of the road to Maweni Farm,
and signposted.
Maweni Farm
LODGE $$
( 0784-307841, 0784-279371;
www.maweni.com/lodge
;
s/d/f from €40/60/108, d
without bathroom €36; ) This is an atmospheric old farmhouse set in lush, rambling
grounds against a backdrop of twittering birds, flowering gardens and a water lily-covered
pond, with Kwa Mungu mountain rising up behind. The rooms (some in the main house
and some in a separate block) are spacious and comfortable. There are also safari-style tents
with private bathrooms, plus meals and guides for walks. Maweni is 2.9km from the main
Soni junction along a dirt road, and signposted.
GETTING THERE & AWAY
Soni is 12km below (south of) Lushoto along the Mombo road, and easy to reach via dalla-
dalla from either destination (Tsh1000 from Lushoto, Tsh1000 from Mombo).
MOMBO TO SAME
Mombo is the scruffy junction town at the foot of the Usambara Mountains where the road
to Lushoto branches off the main Dar es Salaam-Arusha highway. There's no recommend-
