Wake up, pack everything. Fortunately, my next stop is only an hour away, so I'm in no rush. I can actually walk around Moshi. I bought a belt for three dollars. Then hopped on a bus and went one city over, Arusha, tourist capital of Tanzania. Being an hour away, it took 3 hours to get there.
Moshi and Arusha are the big towns on Tanzania's northern circuit. The northern circuit is a geographically diverse, wildlife-rich destination. You can find alkaline lakes, mountains, escarpments (essentially sheer cliffs that mark dramatic changes in elevation from one side to the next, rippling across the Rift Valley landscape all over the region) savannah, mountains. The northern circuit has Lake Manyara National Park, the Ngorogoro Crater, Mt. Meru, Arusha National Park, the Usambra Mountains, volcanic craters, coffee plantations, and, most famously, Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Serengeti.
Arusha is also home to the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, overseeing prosecutions of perpetrators of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Shannon and another law school friend are working here as interns, and so I'm staying here- for free- probably until Shannon kicks me out.
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