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Was it not existing before it became a "city"?
At 110.2 km Dodoma Outer ring Road is the longest Highway U/C in East and central Africa
At 110.2 km Dodoma Outer ring Road is the longest Highway U/C in East and central Africa
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Nicxie
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...Owned by both the private sector and the government. How about that bongolala?
Secondly, do you know the actual height of some of these buildings?
1. Prism tower
2. UAP
3. Britam
4. CBK pension house, among others
No wonder Mmejaza jiji lenu na dream houses coz the involvement of the private sector is minimal, if any in constructing highrises, both residentials and office towers
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Duuh, hapo kweli dusty imeonekana iko upande gani🙂and yet has a bus stand of this quality
See Nairobi bus stand
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First experience in Dodoma from a European tourist
Dodoma is the HUGE CONSTRUCTION SITE 😊😊😊
This post further documents my business trips and shows people places visited from a business-travel perspective. This time I describe my short visit to Dodoma the old/new capital city of Tanzania.
Why old? Because in 1974 the Tanzanian government decided that Dodoma is going to be the new capital of Tanzania. Why new?
Because only in October 2019 they finally moved all the state institutions to Dodoma.
View of Dodoma from the office When people hear about Tanzania they think about Serengeti, Zanzibar or Dar es Salaam. They will probably never think of Dodoma.
Dodoma is not a touristic city and I think 80% of the people living there work or have someone in the family working in some state institution. Think about Brasil or Washington D.C. when you want to have an image of the main “occupation” in Dodoma.
How to get there: Going to Tanzania is quite easy because the country is a touristic destination. There is a 2-hour direct flight from Cluj-Napoca to Istanbul, then an 8-hour flight from Istanbul to Dar es Salaam.
Going to Dodoma is not so easy. There is no international flight landing on the small Dodoma airport. When I said small, I was comparing it to the Cluj-Napoca airport not to any other capital city airport from Europe.
I mean it is a “two-rooms” airport. View from the departure gate, Dodoma airport. The only possibilities are a 6-to-8-hour drive from Dar es Salaam or an early morning Air Tanzania flight from Dar es Salaam. Lucky for me,
Air Tanzania was just re-birthed some 3 years ago and has a new fleet of nice airplanes. Until the end of 2016 the only realistic way to go to Dodoma was by car. Lodging: Because this is a new capital it has all the problems of a city that suddenly became important.
Infrastructure is still a growing even if you see that the whole city is a big construction site. There are hotels (3 or 4 maybe) and from those hotels only 2 appear on Booking.com or were found by my company travel agent. To add more problems to the lodging availability, of course, I had to travel there right in the middle of the parliamentary session.
Every hotel room and guest houses were booked by local politicians and officials with government and parliament business. Through a local connection, we were finally able to book something in a small hotel “Royal Village Hotel”. Royal Village Hotel The hotel is in fact a village with several small buildings and cottages where the guests are accommodated.
I was accommodated in room 2 of the biggest building, a 6-rooms building. The 6-rooms building from the hotel complex. The complex has also a restaurant/breakfast hall in the middle of the complex. That building seems to host also a cinema ?!? The restaurant with the cinema Food: Not the greatest. The choice of restaurants is very limited in Dodoma and the hotel food was most of the times eatable.
Mind that I have a high tolerance to food selection. I eat anything. That includes: crocodile, snake, deep fried locusts, fried worms, unidentifiable animal barbecued meat 🙂, weird looking vegetable broth. Not all people are as tolerant, some of my companions were not so lucky.
Safety: City is safe due to the high percentage of politicians and government officials. The fact that population is bellow 400.000 is also a benefit. According to statistics, malaria infection has a higher rate than in the touristic parts of Tanzania but it was OK. February is not the season for malaria. I was able to skip stressing my liver with Malarone. That gave me the opportunity to try the local beers.
The city: The city is a construction site. There are many buildings and roads that are in the construction stage. Traffic is OK compared to the horrible traffic from the big African cities. Basically everything is in a 15-min range.
Solar powered street lights Taxis are basically Uber, Bolt or the African equivalent local services.
Dodoma is the HUGE CONSTRUCTION SITE 😊😊😊
This post further documents my business trips and shows people places visited from a business-travel perspective. This time I describe my short visit to Dodoma the old/new capital city of Tanzania.
Why old? Because in 1974 the Tanzanian government decided that Dodoma is going to be the new capital of Tanzania. Why new?
Because only in October 2019 they finally moved all the state institutions to Dodoma.
View of Dodoma from the office When people hear about Tanzania they think about Serengeti, Zanzibar or Dar es Salaam. They will probably never think of Dodoma.
Dodoma is not a touristic city and I think 80% of the people living there work or have someone in the family working in some state institution. Think about Brasil or Washington D.C. when you want to have an image of the main “occupation” in Dodoma.
How to get there: Going to Tanzania is quite easy because the country is a touristic destination. There is a 2-hour direct flight from Cluj-Napoca to Istanbul, then an 8-hour flight from Istanbul to Dar es Salaam.
Going to Dodoma is not so easy. There is no international flight landing on the small Dodoma airport. When I said small, I was comparing it to the Cluj-Napoca airport not to any other capital city airport from Europe.
I mean it is a “two-rooms” airport. View from the departure gate, Dodoma airport. The only possibilities are a 6-to-8-hour drive from Dar es Salaam or an early morning Air Tanzania flight from Dar es Salaam. Lucky for me,
Air Tanzania was just re-birthed some 3 years ago and has a new fleet of nice airplanes. Until the end of 2016 the only realistic way to go to Dodoma was by car. Lodging: Because this is a new capital it has all the problems of a city that suddenly became important.
Infrastructure is still a growing even if you see that the whole city is a big construction site. There are hotels (3 or 4 maybe) and from those hotels only 2 appear on Booking.com or were found by my company travel agent. To add more problems to the lodging availability, of course, I had to travel there right in the middle of the parliamentary session.
Every hotel room and guest houses were booked by local politicians and officials with government and parliament business. Through a local connection, we were finally able to book something in a small hotel “Royal Village Hotel”. Royal Village Hotel The hotel is in fact a village with several small buildings and cottages where the guests are accommodated.
I was accommodated in room 2 of the biggest building, a 6-rooms building. The 6-rooms building from the hotel complex. The complex has also a restaurant/breakfast hall in the middle of the complex. That building seems to host also a cinema ?!? The restaurant with the cinema Food: Not the greatest. The choice of restaurants is very limited in Dodoma and the hotel food was most of the times eatable.
Mind that I have a high tolerance to food selection. I eat anything. That includes: crocodile, snake, deep fried locusts, fried worms, unidentifiable animal barbecued meat 🙂, weird looking vegetable broth. Not all people are as tolerant, some of my companions were not so lucky.
Safety: City is safe due to the high percentage of politicians and government officials. The fact that population is bellow 400.000 is also a benefit. According to statistics, malaria infection has a higher rate than in the touristic parts of Tanzania but it was OK. February is not the season for malaria. I was able to skip stressing my liver with Malarone. That gave me the opportunity to try the local beers.
The city: The city is a construction site. There are many buildings and roads that are in the construction stage. Traffic is OK compared to the horrible traffic from the big African cities. Basically everything is in a 15-min range.
Solar powered street lights Taxis are basically Uber, Bolt or the African equivalent local services.
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who needs you in Dodoma?
We got lots of larger spenders,
First experience in Dodoma from a European tourist Dodoma is the HUGE CONSTRUCTION SITE 😊😊😊 This post further documents my business trips and shows people places visited from a business-travel perspective. This time I describe my short visit to Dodoma the old/new capital city of Tanzania. Why old? Because in 1974 the Tanzanian government decided that Dodoma is going to be the new capital of Tanzania. Why new? Because only in October 2019 they finally moved all the state institutions to Dodoma. View of Dodoma from the office When people hear about Tanzania they think about Serengeti, Zanzibar or Dar es Salaam. They will probably never think of Dodoma. Dodoma is not a touristic city and I think 80% of the people living there work or have someone in the family working in some state institution. Think about Brasil or Washington D.C. when you want to have an image of the main “occupation” in Dodoma. How to get there: Going to Tanzania is quite easy because the country is a touristic destination. There is a 2-hour direct flight from Cluj-Napoca to Istanbul, then an 8-hour flight from Istanbul to Dar es Salaam. Going to Dodoma is not so easy. There is no international flight landing on the small Dodoma airport. When I said small, I was comparing it to the Cluj-Napoca airport not to any other capital city airport from Europe. I mean it is a “two-rooms” airport. View from the departure gate, Dodoma airport. The only possibilities are a 6-to-8-hour drive from Dar es Salaam or an early morning Air Tanzania flight from Dar es Salaam. Lucky for me, Air Tanzania was just re-birthed some 3 years ago and has a new fleet of nice airplanes. Until the end of 2016 the only realistic way to go to Dodoma was by car. Lodging: Because this is a new capital it has all the problems of a city that suddenly became important. Infrastructure is still a growing even if you see that the whole city is a big construction site. There are hotels (3 or 4 maybe) and from those hotels only 2 appear on Booking.com or were found by my company travel agent. To add more problems to the lodging availability, of course, I had to travel there right in the middle of the parliamentary session. Every hotel room and guest houses were booked by local politicians and officials with government and parliament business. Through a local connection, we were finally able to book something in a small hotel “Royal Village Hotel”. Royal Village Hotel The hotel is in fact a village with several small buildings and cottages where the guests are accommodated. I was accommodated in room 2 of the biggest building, a 6-rooms building. The 6-rooms building from the hotel complex. The complex has also a restaurant/breakfast hall in the middle of the complex. That building seems to host also a cinema ?!? The restaurant with the cinema Food: Not the greatest. The choice of restaurants is very limited in Dodoma and the hotel food was most of the times eatable. Mind that I have a high tolerance to food selection. I eat anything. That includes: crocodile, snake, deep fried locusts, fried worms, unidentifiable animal barbecued meat 🙂, weird looking vegetable broth. Not all people are as tolerant, some of my companions were not so lucky. Safety: City is safe due to the high percentage of politicians and government officials. The fact that population is bellow 400.000 is also a benefit. According to statistics, malaria infection has a higher rate than in the touristic parts of Tanzania but it was OK. February is not the season for malaria. I was able to skip stressing my liver with Malarone. That gave me the opportunity to try the local beers. The city: The city is a construction site. There are many buildings and roads that are in the construction stage. Traffic is OK compared to the horrible traffic from the big African cities. Basically everything is in a 15-min range. Solar powered street lights Taxis are basically Uber, Bolt or the African equivalent local services.
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Dodoma is remote town Kama Garrisa, Kibwezi , Lodwar and other small villages in Kenya but tuanelewa kwa standards za LDC Tz such villages are elevated to cities,..si hata Dar es sluum ni a fishing village once described by a prominent Travel Journalist as "Dark Es Salaam" Naton Jr umeme wa mgao wakati wa Corona?
Kukatika ovyo kwa Umeme: Waziri wa Nishati jitafakari kwani kazi imekushinda kabisa!
Kukatika ovyo kwa Umeme: Waziri wa Nishati jitafakari kwani kazi imekushinda kabisa!
mwaswast
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Huku tuna umeme huko kwenu mgao tu 😂😂😂and yet has a bus stand of this quality
See Nairobi bus stand
Kukatika ovyo kwa Umeme: Waziri wa Nishati jitafakari kwani kazi imekushinda kabisa!
Geza Ulole
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😂😂😂😂 RendersOur SGR station in Dodoma city U/C
Huku kwetu To the small town(Kenyan standards) imeishinda Tz nzima
Eldoret vs Dark es Slam
This bozo is now posting renders. Clearly dodoma village has lost its idiotOur SGR station in Dodoma city U/C
Geza Ulole
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SGR phase II Morogoro-Dodoma-Makutupora is already 30% implemented! So u have no basis to claim it is a render!
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.....so once again I say, dodoma village has lost its idiot somebody should come take him back.
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Isanity is ur city of over 100 years having no bus stand!
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Kachekeshe walionuna
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Umenifurahisha sana Naton Jr na hizo taarifa za 'watalii' unazozipost ukidhani kwamba wanaisifia Dodoma. ''Going to Dodoma is not so easy.
There is no international flight landing
on the small Dodoma airport. When I
said small, I was comparing it to the
Cluj-Napoca airport not to any other
capital city airport from Europe. I mean it is a “two-rooms” airport'' [emoji38][emoji38][emoji38] Huo sasa ndio mji ambao mnajaribu kuufananisha na Nairobi? Yaani hata kule kwenye uwanja wa ndege Eldoret Town kuna international flights ambazo zinatua humo. 😀
There is no international flight landing
on the small Dodoma airport. When I
said small, I was comparing it to the
Cluj-Napoca airport not to any other
capital city airport from Europe. I mean it is a “two-rooms” airport'' [emoji38][emoji38][emoji38] Huo sasa ndio mji ambao mnajaribu kuufananisha na Nairobi? Yaani hata kule kwenye uwanja wa ndege Eldoret Town kuna international flights ambazo zinatua humo. 😀
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Unatuambia Nini Geza wakati Nchi ni Umeme wa mgao?
Nini sababu ya Mgao huu wa Umeme?Kwa nini hawatoi ratiba kamili?