We stopped for lunch at Alpha Burger, which Beth said had pretty good burgers. They also have fish and chips, chicken, and other things as well. I tried the burger, and unfortunately, I have to disagree with Beth's assessment. Cows here are generally left to forage through the dry season, so the meat is extremely lean--and thus very dry. Also, they don't have hamburger buns as we have them in the US, so they use these big rolls that are really entirely too much bread. A redeeming feature, however, was that they had both guacamole and barbecue sauce. I ended up eating guacamole on the burger and eating barbecue sauce on my fries. Fries aren't my favorite, but they're better here than in the US (at least to me) and anyhow, eating barbecue sauce straight is usually frowned upon in polite society.
We had to pick up some things for the school store, so we drove around the downtown area of Arusha looking for the shop, which we found quickly. However, parking was not so easy to find, so I took several photos of the downtown streets as Beth circled the block several times. We drove by the bus station, the soccer stadium, and near the big city market.
Arusha is the third biggest city in Tanzania with over 400,000 people, and about 300,000 more in the surrounding suburbs, and has been important in Tanzanian history--the agreement with the British in 1961 that Tanganyika (which three years later united with Zanzibar to form modern Tanzania) would become independent was signed here, and after the Rwandan genocide the UN approved setting up the war crimes tribunal in Arusha.
Here are a few photos around the city:
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