4 Day Usambara hike

The trip will start early morning after breakfast. You will be picked up from your accommodation (Arusha, Moshi, or Dar es Salaam) and driven to Tanga. It is a six hours drive, you will stop for a lunch and then continue to Tanga. Arrive in the later afternoon and you will travel uphill through several villages up to the Magamba Rainforest and sleep overnight in the one-horse town of Lukozi. Here you will experience the views of the untouched forests and fill your lungs with pure and clean, fresh air. You will also get a chance to learn a lot about agriculture within a region. Rows of growing produce are everywhere, down in the valleys up to the tops of the hills. Fruits like apples, plums, peaches, and vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli, potatoes, and carrots popping are everywhere!

Time on Foot: 3 hours, 30 minutes. The second day is a little bit light but no less beautiful. Hike through the different small villages of Manolo and Sunga up to the magnificent Range. You will stay at the sisters' convent in the hills, this was one of the areas used by the Germans when they first came to Tanzania. Just imagine sleeping in the building being used as a bunker in World War II, which gives its a particularly haunted character, but actually, it was built sometime in the 1970s.

Time on Foot: 3 hours, 30 minutes. Woke up early morning, have breakfast, and get out to move again. The Usambara mountains forest looks even more beautiful in the morning. Singing birds and green forests will light up your morning. The Usambara Mountain forestry is managed by the government and every ten years, the entire forest is cut down and re-grown, as the type of pine harvested there grows and matures in just ten years! Lucky for you as you going to encounter things you won’t forget. You will stop and spend your night at the viewpoint of Lodge. Spend the rest of your evening staring out at the Pare Mountains in the distance, sharing stories, and looking up at the amazing stars in the sky.

Time on Foot: 5 hours On this day you will say goodbye to the amazing Usambara mountains. Your route will be backtracked you by foot for a few hours until you reach a spot were car can pick you up back to Irente. You will end your tour with the last great lookout, known as Irente Viewpoint, and head back to your lodging.