This tour does not involve a lot of driving, it is designed for people who want to explore the life style of people in Moshi town, visit the coffee shops, the local market, enjoy a hot lunch and visit the Rau forest.

After breakfast you will be picked up by our driver and be driven to Moshi town, which is a colorful and vibrant town in Tanzania. You will have a stop at the old Moshi railway station, you will learn a bit about the history of Moshi, visit the local market and enjoy a hot lunch in a local restaurant.

After lunch you will enjoy a nature forest hike in the Rau forest reserve which is one of the attraction found in the Moshi lowland. The reserve is an underground water forest which is well known for its important catchment values as it host not only a numbers of natural spring but also some valuable tree species and animal species especially two species of monkeys namely black and white colubus monkeys and blue monkeys.

Another species which can be observed while walking in the forest includes various species
of butterfly dik dik (rarely in some parts of the forest) squirrels as well as some forested bird species.

Also the forest is very famous and well known to the locals who inhabited the surroundings for many years and who has been using the forest not only for their daily survive and firewood collections but also for the rituals purposes. This is evidenced and can be observed by visiting one of the huge and oldest tree of East African teak (Milicia excelsa) or Mvule mkuu as it’s called by locals

From the edge of the forest in the southern part the hike can be extended to the rice farms where the local farmers conduct irrigation farming system to more than 3000 ha of rice plots.

The cultivated plots make the forest and overall plains not only more beautiful and very attractive greenish but also one of the important feeding ground to more than 20 migratory bird species
coming to feed in the waterlogged vegetation.

Therefore, if you have interest in bird this can be the perfect place. Some bird species which can be observed includes storks, jacanas, ibises, egret, heroine and many others depending on the season.