Igombe Dam
Tabora's reservoir, 12 km round, inside the Igombe Forest Reserve: birds, fishing and the town's main escape into nature.
Igombe Dam was built in 1958 to supply Tabora with water and still does. The lake it created is about 12 kilometres around and lies inside the Igombe Forest Reserve, so the shore is miombo woodland rather than farmland, with water birds along the edges.
The Tanzania Forest Service, which manages the reserve, is developing it for visitors with boating, fishing, bird-watching and walking trails. It is the nearest piece of open nature to the town and a good half-day out by taxi.
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Livingstone's Tembe
The flat-roofed Arab trader's house at Kwihara where David Livingstone lived in 1871 and Henry Morton Stanley waited out a war.
The German Boma
The fort from which Germany ran central German East Africa, and the prize the Belgians took in 1916.
Tabora Hotel (the Kaiserhof)
Built in German times as a guesthouse fit for the Kaiser, and still a hotel today.
Tabora Railway Station
The 1912 station at the junction of the Central Line, where trains divide for Kigoma, Mwanza and Mpanda.