Tabora Hotel (the Kaiserhof)
Built in German times as a guesthouse fit for the Kaiser, and still a hotel today.
The colonnaded front with its fanlight and pediment belongs to the Kaiserhof, built between about 1900 and 1914 as a guesthouse for the German Emperor or the Crown Prince on a visit that never came. It is one of the finest colonial buildings in western Tanzania.
It has been a hotel ever since, and it keeps its wide verandas, high ceilings and gardens, and it is the natural place to stay for anyone who wants to sleep inside Tabora’s history. Even if you stay elsewhere, the terrace is worth a visit.
In this section
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 Railway Station
The 1912 station at the junction of the Central Line, where trains divide for Kigoma, Mwanza and Mpanda.
Gongoni Mosque and the old Swahili quarter
The Friday mosque at the centre of the oldest part of town, among the Arab houses, carved doors and mango trees the coastal traders left behind.