2024

TWIGA BREWERY

Beer bar
Open - from 11h00 to 22h00

This is Tanzania's first craft brewery, located in front of the Heritage Cultural Center in Arusha. Twiga is the Kiswahili word for giraffe, the muse of this light blond pilsner. The brand also offers an Ale and an IPA, so there's something for everyone! The design of the label is nice, and it's a good idea for a cool stopover in Arusha, especially as the brewery serves draught beers as well as cocktails for those who don't like beer. A 20-minute tour of the brewery is free of charge.

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 Arusha
2024

MAISHA KHALISI

Bar and caf

This bar-restaurant is exceptional! You'll have to earn your way to it, and take a boda boda or bajaj to climb up via a dirt track. This multi-storey bar-restaurant impresses with its wooden scaffolding architecture. On the top floor, a supplement is charged for the view of Kilimanjaro's Kivu, sublime from morning to night. The best photo spot in front of the summit before or after the climb! The food is good and the music is African and eclectic. Cornfields and an abandoned dala dala complete the setting.

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 Moshi
2024

AROMA COFFEE HOUSE

Coffee shop and tea room

At around 800 m above sea level, Moshi is the base for tourists coming to climb Kilimanjaro or simply to admire it. If you're passing through, make sure you visit the Aroma Coffee House. Created by Asia Kimaryo, co-founder of the Woman in Coffee Tanzania organization, it employs 90% women from poor neighborhoods who are responsible for the subsistence of their families and communities. Aroma aims to equip them with specific skills to help empower them. It also has an ecological and ethical objective: the coffee comes from the slopes of Kilimanjaro.

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 Moshi
2024

VIA VIA CULTURAL CAFE

Bar and caf

It is a café that used to belong to the ViaVia café chain and kept the name, but has been sold and is still going strong locally. Great atmosphere every Thursday night, and late into the night, at the traditional concert evening which continues afterwards in the gardens by the fire with musicians. Nice setting, and a practical place to get information on the visits of the city, on the cultural activities to do, but be careful it's full of mosquitoes! Take precautions, including repellent and covering clothes.

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 Arusha
2024

SANNA CAFE

Coffee shop and tea room

This friendly concept-store café prepares... Tanzanian coffee! But also bowls, paninis and salads.... It also sells the black gold in beautiful packages, high-quality beans harvested directly from the slopes of Mount Meru, as well as coffee-based beauty scrubs. The place is really pleasant, with cakes presented under a bell on a wooden counter and good wifi. An ideal place to take a break in the city, not far from the Clock Tower. An outdoor terrace lets you enjoy your coffee in the sunshine.

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 Arusha