Monday, September 12, 2011

my Trip to lake Tanganyika:it was morethan murvelous.


It takes morethan 117kms private drive from Mpanda district headquarter to the villages of Iloba and Karema that are the benefficiaries to lake tanganyika.it is estimated to be the 2nd largest fresh water lake in the world and shared by four East african countries i.e DRC, ZAMBIA, TANZANIA & BURUNDI.The water flows into the Congo River system and ultimately an inlet into the Atlantic ocean.

The first known Westerners to find the lake were the Great British explorers Richard Burton and John Speke, in 1858. They located it while searching for the source of the Nile River. Speke continued and found the actual source, Lake Victoria. Later David Livingstone passed by the lake. He noted the name "Liemba" for its southern part, a word probably from the Fipa language which in 1927 was chosen as name for the conquered German ship which is serving the lake up to the present time.
Karema is the border of Mpanda to congo and zaire. also HA people from kigoma can cross-along the lake-to mpanda via karema. However, people sorrounding the lake are the major beneficiaries of its products including Fresh water for consurption and other domestic uses, fishing for both subsistance and sale, navigation to neigbouring regions etc.

At the lake at karema. the left standing is mr manase with mugaZe perezida relaxed at the shore of the lake.


kids with in a humor with their catch after a 15minutes dive. they use small sharped hooks. the small bare-thighed kid can dive for morethan a ahalf an hour serching for proteins.


a 5kgs weighing fish, caught from the lake. fish prices varies depending on the weight of that particular fish.

residents of karema, enjoying using lake waters for washing and subsistance uses..

hawkers around the beach selling their catchs to passer-byes. they earn their living from the lake.
customers on a finger dabbing to determine the quality of fishes.