3 Days | 2 Usambara Mountains Trekking
Overview
Our Usambara Mountains Hiking 3 Days tour offers stunning, unique, and expansive vistas. A village-to-village journey is the ideal way to discover this tranquil region of Northern Tanzania. As you explore Tanzania off the beaten road, you’ll come across hillside farms nestled between mountains and lush green bush. Experience Tanzanian farm life firsthand.
The Usambara Mountains are a mountain range in Tanzania’s northeastern Lushoto District, part of the Tanga Region. The Eastern Arc ranges include the Usambara Mountain ranges, which reach an altitude of 2,290 m. The journey from the Usambara Mountains to Lushot town would take around 75 minutes. The distance between MOSHI town and the Usambara Mountains is 222 km by road.
Trekking
Usambara Mountain
Accommodation
3 Nights
Accommodation
3 Nights
Meals
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Start your hike at 8:30 am, departing Lushoto town and going to the royal village Kwembago where the first king of the Samba tribe lived. Then head to the Magamba tropical rainforest. Here you will visit a German trench cave as well as see black and white colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys, birds, many colorful butterflies, and Jackson's chameleons. You will enjoy lunch at Magamba viewpoint and then hike to Lukozi where you will overnight at Bushbaby guesthouse.
Approx. Distance: 11km Hiking Time: 6 hours
Following breakfast you will start at 9 am, heading through farms where you can see coffee and banana plantations and experience local village life. You will have great views of the rolling hills of Lushoto and have a go at making and taste-test sugarcane juice. You will hike to Magumba View cottage {https://magumbaviewcottages.co.tz/} for dinner and overnight.
Approx. Distance: 10km Hiking Time: 5 hours
Catch an early morning bus to Kwesimu village. You will hike from here to Irente farm (approx. 1 hour). Enjoy a breakfast of fresh produce here before heading to Irente Viewpoint where you have wonderful views across the sisal plantations and cliff tops. From here you will head back to Lushoto town, overnight at Lawns Hotel {https://lawnshotel.com/} marking the end of the tour.
Approx. Distance: 5km Hiking Time: 2.5 hours
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Included in cost:
- Accommodation at Lushoto before the trip and after the trip
- Food
- Water
- Village fees
- Guide salary
The price does not include
- Tips
- Transport to get to Lushoto town.
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