Dar es Salam is an Arabic word meaning the “House of Peace” which might be a slight exaggeration but still the city has a lot to offer to its visitors. Contrary to the name, the city is quite busy full of activity. Although the city doesn’t have an official status of being Tanzania’s capital, in practice it is as the President and the cabinet-ministers spend most of their time in this city and head offices of many of the Govt. organizations can also be found here. You can book an affordable cheap flights to Dar es Salam with us to get things started.
If you closely look at how the city center is built you can easily have the idea that it used to be a small town once in absence of huge traffic. But since the independence, the city has grown at a rapid pace and now is home to about 2 million people. The Sultan of Zanzibar was the founder of the city who needed a mainland port in the nineteenth century. The main primary sites to visit in the city are either in the city centre or not far from it and include the colorful Kariakoo Market and the clock tower. You may also like to visit the Botanical Gardens and the National Museum.
The Village Museum located at a distance of about ten kilometers from the city centre is also a place worth visiting and you can reach there while traveling along the road to Bagamoyo. Oyster Bay is the closest beach to the capital and you can find many other beaches too along the coast while moving further north including the South Ciast which is being developed and hosts nice beaches.
The university can be found on the hills also known commonly as mlimani located at the north west of the city-centre which was one a rural land but presently is encircled by the rapidly developing city.
Dar-es-Salam offers its visitors with plenty of choices for entertainment and you may enjoy city’s restaurants, bars and the lovely beaches of course. The Water Parks are also worth a visit and attracts tourists with their affordable prices.
Now here is the interesting part of being in Dar-es-Salam that you can plan and go for a fascinating trip in Zanzibar which can be easily reached through the ferry that’ll pick you up from the Harbor near the Forodhani Primary School and drops you off in Zanzibar. The trips take about four hours and you are sure to enjoy while traveling with wonderful sceneries so don’t forget to take some spectacular photos to capture your memories. Visiting and exploring and being in Zanzibar is another experience that you won’t be able to erase from your memories.
Tanzania is probably one of the oldest known inhabited areas on Earth; fossil remains of humans and pre-human hominids have been found dating back over two million years. More recently, Tanzania is believed to have been populated by hunter-gatherer communities, probably Cushitic and Khoisan speaking people. About 2,000 years ago, Bantu-speaking people began to arrive from western Africa in a series of migrations.