Catching a daladala (minibus) south from war torn Burundi in a bus that looked like something out of the 18th century, lol, packed to the brim with locals laughing, joking, talking, directions being yelled with more people being packed on with bags, bikes, and huge bags of veggies being tied to the hood, the children yelling "hello" and chasing the van, the farmers in the fields and the woman in colourful dress with their babies wrapped around their backs smiling hello, while the crazy driver is trying to dodge the holes in the road and tell jokes all while the sun was on it's way down blanketing the landscape amidst the mountains and hills were the exact moments I knew I was gonna really like Tanzania.
 
Tanzania is the largest country in East Africa bordering Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Kenya to the north.
Like Kenya to the north the national tongue is swahili (people of the coast) along with countless other tribal tongues and cultures that mix into a population of Maasai, Sukumu, Pare, Mukondo, Luo, etc...
Also along with Kenya, Ethiopia, The Sudan, and other parts of East Africa with it's mountains, valleys, plains, and highlands has one of the longest documented human histories of anywhere else in the world.
The East African section of the Rift Valley is widely considered
'The cradle of humanity"
Coming south from Burundi we stayed along the western region of the country. Western Tanzania is remote, hard to get around at times due to transport, with minimal infrastructure and vast expanses of land. 
It was precisely this that made it so deep travelling through the villages and small towns that sprinkle the highlands landscape.
It brought us closer to the culture and the very great people that live on the land.
Playing football with the kids in the villages, to jammin reggae with a music group on a street hitching a ride to the next village 5 hours away watching the baboons alongside the road, to driving through Katavi National Park on a bus packed with locals excitingly pointing out the elephants, giraffes, hippo's, impalas, and gazelles on the side of the road.
We definitely met some great people along the way and even taught a few how to hack,lol (they love it)
A genuwine people.