When you think of Africa, what landscape springs to mind? I’m guessing it probably resembles something dry and brown. At least, as someone who’d barely left Europe in his 35 years, that was my naive expectation.
The Usambara Mountains, a region in northeastern Tanzania exist in stark contrast to other parts of the continent, the rolling mountains are home to a tropical rainforest, lusciously green and rich in biodiversity.
The locals who live here thrive off the land; growing organic produce, making beer from sugar cane, using the indigenous plants for medicine… even making the bricks to build their houses from the clay excavated for the foundations.
A truly special place, and one that I intend to return to one day.