Buying Souvenirs a long Tanzania Tourism Centres

It is one of the traditional culture for travellers,tourist and visitors to buy some souvenirs around the world and take with them to their homes,others they buy for there relatives,friends and loves one.as a form of gift it can be also in different design if it is a curving items,sculpture,cloth and wear items.

The big challenge for making a good choice is on how to buy a quality items as a souvenir in most of existing curios shops and tourist trading centres especially a long the east Africa tourist destination.
                                                                           

Tanga a historical destination centre located in the northern coastal area of Tanzania is one of the centre where one can buy some quality souvenirs as there is an existing market centre at Forodhani market which specialise on curios mostly from the Kamba and Makonde curving's and Masai products likes neck less,bungles and other traditional regalia,the market centre is close to Independent road and Forodhani garden.

Moshi is another town famous for selling souvenirs and is located at the basement of Mt Kilimanjaro which is the highest point in Africa continent,at the main avenue of double road local known in Kiswahili as Barabara mbili,here is where one can buy some souvenirs just close to buffalo hotel there many curios store packed with varieties of items ranging from clothing to sculptures.

There other few places a long the Moshi Arusha highway whereby one can stop over and buy something and another place is Mto wa Mbu near Ngorongoro and Mara conservation area, in these area which is on the highway from Arusha city to Karatu town there also curios stores a long the road sides.

Stone town in Zanzibar is also a remarkable area with many types of souvenirs to choose coming from different places within east Africa region, a tourist here has a lot of Choices as there varieties of souvenirs from different part of east Africa. For every traveller buying items in some of these areas he or she will have a good chance to buy something good and never regrets afterwards.

Swahili curving and furniture's

    It is common for a newly visitor to come across wooden curving doors and windows in narrow streets in old towns along the coastal of east Africa,as from far north of Kenya coastal centres like Lamu,Pate and Kiunga to the islands of Zanzibar,Kilwa and Comoro islands along the India ocean waters.
   These culture is still practises to date and in many designs like showcase,beds and other types of wooden materials as decoration with the Swahili cultural areas, in hinter land where the culture has spread and it is currently a booming market.
                                                                             

One of a wooden curving door from a major old narrow street of Stone town in Zanzibar main island of Uguja,during the ruins of sultanate these kind of curving's was mainly seen as a prestige to some high social class people with the elite Arabs settle and local Swahili elite people and such that the curving will have some Arabic script on it.

Some of the other old cultural furniture's are so common in most of hotels and also in homesteads are Swahili chairs and the famous Mwakisu Swahili bed type,it made up of wooden sticks and a woven ropes both bed and chair then one can buy some cutions separately or mattress for the bed,normal in the local culture people uses a woven mate on top of the bed and a improvise mattress made local.

These is one of a Swahili woven bed commonly used by many Swahili people a long the east Africa coast and in many hotels.visitors and tourist explore these area have a lot to see and explore apart from the warm tropical climate and wildlife safaris,there is a deep rooted curving and furniture's which can be found in local market areas ranging from kitchen wear to furniture's and decorations,once your visiting these places please take your time to explore these east Africa coastal cultural.

     
                                                                

Kanga a Swahili cultural cloth

                                                                         

In most part of Swahili community along the coastal of east Africa is common to come across women wearing Kanga and shops selling the piece of the cloth at a very cheaper price.
These piece of cloth is in two pieces which resemble each other in colour,pattern,fabric and the name tag which is always in Swahili language and will differ with other pieces as it has a message written on it,normal such messages are in a proverbial way of written and sometimes a buyer will request in advance to be printed according to his or her wish.
Kanga has many symbolic way of expressing the culture of coastal people and some are like;
Wedding times whereby there is a special ritual event performed by elders and the husband to be has to identify his wife to be by identify her from a group of two or more women covered with Kangas,if it happens that he failed to identify his partner then there he must pay a fine of either a cow or anything requested by his in laws.

Receiving a newly born baby it is a must use of Kanga and even today in same hospital it is a rule,all newly born babies have to be wrapped by these piece of cloth and they will be using them until there umbilical unattached them,it is when most Swahili cultural people believes that now it is the right moment for the baby to start clothing after these un attachment of the umbilical.

Many women preferred to use Kanga like a wrap around there bodies,as there in two pieces a Swahili woman will wrap one piece as from her west part going downward and another piece on top to cover her head,these is also a sign of respect to the entire community.even when women are in there homestead they will use kanga like apron when there are cooking or doing any house hold activities.

Another is during circumcision whereby young boys a long the coastal will have to use these cloths during these period until their able to wear cloths again.

when there a event or ceremony among the coastal communities it's also common used like for a burial ceremony as a send of as mourners close to the deceased will wear the same type of cloth with message tag on them,the same with wedding,come together and other events in Swahili areas.

Travellers whom visit the coastal of east Africa and the islands within eastern Africa have to adopted to these culture of Kanga,in many beach hotels tourist like to cover themselves with these clothes as there good in warm tropical climate and easy to wash,majority of women travellers like to use them to and take with them back to there countries as souvenirs.

There readily available in many shops along the coastal trading centres in east Africa,while in any town around one can notice mostly women wearing kanga and even some women use them as baby carrier.it is a very respectable piece of cloth with deep rooted culture in the coastal areas of east Africa as from Kenya to Mozambique areas.