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(snacks from Tsh300, buffet per plate Tsh1500-3500; breakfast, lunch & dinner) Samo-
sas and other snacks plus a good buffet, with the price depending on which meat you eat. It
has two branches: one by the market and the other out on Lumumba St.
Orion Tabora Hotel
TANZANIAN, EUROPEAN $$
(Station Rd; meals Tsh4000-10,000; breakfast, lunch & dinner) Tabora's top dining spot
has a mix of local and continental food, with pizza and Indian available during dinner.
There's dining indoors and in the outside bar area, which has a pool table, and there is a
live band on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Golden Eagle Hotel
INDIAN, TANZANIAN $
(Market St; meals Tsh3000-6500;
breakfast, lunch & dinner;
) Good food and low
prices; the vegetarian
thali
is just Tsh5000.
Self-caterers can choose between the unsigned
Kaidee's Supermarket
(Jamhuri St) in
the large brown and white building and the unnamed
mini supermarket
(Market St).
GETTING THERE & AWAY
Bus
NBS, mostly offering four-across seating, is the top company operating out of Tabora and
some of its buses depart from its office at the 'old' bus stand. All other buses use the
nearby 'new' bus stand. Several buses depart daily between 6am and 10am to Mwanza
(Tsh14,000, six hours). There's also a service at 6am to Dodoma (Tsh30,000, eight hours),
7am to Kigoma (Tsh25,000, 11 to 12 hours), 7am to Mpanda (Tsh18,000, eight hours), and
6am to Arusha (Tsh30,000, 10 to 11 hours) via Singida (Tsh18,000, six hours) and Babati
(Tsh18,000, six hours). For Mbeya (Tsh34,000, one day), Sumry and Sabena go several
days each week.
Train
Kigoma
The regional capital and only large Tanzanian port on Lake Tanganyika is a scrappy but
agreeable town. It's also the end of the line of the Central Line train and a starting point for
the MV
Liemba
and visits to Gombe National Park. It's hardly a bustling metropolis, but it
feels that way if you've slogged across Western Tanzania by road to get here.
Other than a few scattered buildings dating to the German colonial era, including the
train station
and what some call
Kaiser House
(now the home of the Regional Commis-
