Isimila Pillars

About 15km from Iringa off the Mbeya road is Isimila. Here, in the late 1950s amid a landscape of small canyons and eroded sandstone pillars, archaeologists unearthed one of the most significant Stone Age finds ever identified.

Tools found at the site are estimated to be between 60,000 and 100,000 years old. There’s a museum with small, well-captioned displays highlighting some of the finds.

The main pillar area is accessed via a walk down into a steep valley (about one hour round-trip), for which you’ll need a guide (Tsh10,000 per group). Visits are best in the morning or late afternoon, before the sun gets too high.

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