Lindi

Lindi Region stretches along Tanzania's southeastern coast, a land of cashew nut orchards, ancient Makonde woodcarving traditions, and some of East Africa's least- explored coastline. The Makonde Plateau, rising steeply from the coastal plain, is the spiritual and artistic home of the Makonde people — masters of the shetani and ujamaa sculptural styles whose ebony carvings are displayed in galleries worldwide. The Ruvuma estuary, forming the Mozambique border, shelters dugongs and nesting sea turtles in waters of extraordinary clarity. Lindi town, once a dhow-trade port, retains colonial Arab-Swahili architecture. The dinosaur fossil site at Tendaguru — which yielded the famous Giraffatitan brachiosaur now displayed in Berlin's Natural History Museum — lies in the Lindi hinterland.