Thursday 23 June 2016

The abandon interesting sites of Tanga in Tanzania

 Tanga as a historical town along the northern Tanzania coast has some of very interesting abandon sites,ranging from isles to buildings along it's streets.These harbour town was one of the major agriculture exporter during the Germany East Africa occupation as the region hinterland was full of agriculture plantation with commodities like tea ad sisal estates.
                                                                                   
TOTEN Island
Just on the face of Tanga port lays these magnificently isle named by Germans early settles "Toten",the island has some old graves on it with some abandon few structures and currently people fear to construct modern houses due to its geological reasons,it's only a mile away from the mainland,one can assess it by the use of boats or the Swahili dhow type.Fisherman's are using it for there activities and the locals community shy away from it as they to believe it can easily sink due to its size and the strong Indian ocean water waves.
RASKAZONE Pier
These pier which extend deep into the Indian ocean waters forms parts of abandon sites in these historical town,it located off bombo hospital road in a quite area along the shoreline.
Another interesting place is in Kisosoro area on the Raskazone bay shoreline where a tanker ship lays,here one can see these big tanker ship which has been around for years and some other ship wrecks around it.normal in morning hours the sea water is low and one can easily walk along the beach and site seeing.
Just a long the beach near the Tanga harbour is fishermen centre where the locals resident and fish dealers trade on daily catches from the sea,here there lot of abandon dhows on the shores and a visitors will be more explore the real Tanga Swahili fishing market and activities by local fisherman's as they dock there dhows for fish trade.
Close to Mombasa road there is an early missionary Orthodox church which is to in kisosoro area some few metres from seaside and the Catholic church in Tanga.these church sit on perimeter ground idle and looks very attractive as its form part of the early Christianity missions in these Muslim predominate coastal town of east Africa,all these area can be visited in a day depending on how an excursion plan his or her activity of the day and all places are located close to the Tanga harbour.
Tanga Harbour.






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