Dar es Salaam City - Tanzania

Have you been in a tropical crimate? explore it by visiting Dar es Salaam the biggest city in Tanzania. Get a new experience you won't forget in life time!

Being at City Centre for a variety of attraction.  The harbour contains heavy ocean-going liners as well as traditional dhows, fishing boats and high-speed ferries to Zanzibar. You will find almost constant activity near the harbour, a virtual city within a city. Walk toward the east along Kivukoni Front. You'll pass colonial structures side by side with high - rise office buildings.

Hop on the ferry to Kigamboni - only 100 Tsh for a ride to the other side - to enjoy beautiful South Beach. Kigamboni is still contained within Dar es Salaam and is even part of the same land mass. But make the brief trip a cross the harbour's mouth and you'll feel like you're on a tropical island.

The lack of a bridge across the channel means that this part of town is not nearly as developed as the rest of the city, Village life is visible from the main road, the temperature automatically drops 5-6 degrees, and the noise and pollution of City Centre are distant memory. A series of hotels along the beach ranging from budget to Luxury offer many options for swimming and relaxing.

Adjacent to the ferry terminal on the City Centre side is the bustling fish market.

Recently renovated, the new structure attempts to impose some order to a very chaotic environment. Boats deliver their catches directly to the market, voice clamour for the best prices, and fish flesh flies upon contact with sharp knives. The scent is overwhelming, but for vivacity and action, this is the place to be.

Stroll down leafy Shaaban Robert Street for its sheer beauty, but also for the cooler temperatures offered by colonial- are shade trees. Keep your eyes open for the peacocks that inhabit this corner of town. In fact you're more likely to hear the shrill creatures than to see them. While you're there, swing by the National Museum, situated at the corner of Shaaban Robert Street and Samora Avenue. The Museum is a hidden treasure, with exhibits of cultural, ecological and historical significance. The building itself is remarkable: it contains unique sculptures, colorful tiles and intricate carvings, and is surrounded by a peaceful garden that occasionally hosts concerts and plays.

A short walk from the National Museum you'll find the Botanical Gardens, situated adjacent to the Holiday Inn. Relax in the peaceful atmosphere and tropical beauty. Continue toward the north and you'll come to Ocean Road. The beaches here tend to be busy on weekends and holidays, host to weddings, picnics and romantic strolls though not much swimming. During the daytime, find some shade and enjoy the cool breeze- but best street clear once dusk rolls around: it's not the safest part of town.

If you walk the length of the beach you'll arrive at the Aga Khan Hospital. Turn left on Ufukoni Road then head back toward on All Hassan Mwinyi Road to discover Nyumba ya Sanaa next to the Royal Palm Hotel. Also called the Nyerere Cultural Centre this multi- purpose center houses a cafe, artisan studious, craft sellers, travel agency, is host to music concerts and traditional dance performances Call ahead for a schedule of events.

If you're feeling brave you'll definitely want to experience Kariakoo. Venture toward the tight streets and colourful buildings to get a good sense of the daily goings-on for thousands of Tanzanians. An enormous structure houses the largest covered market in Africa, but the neighabourhood's interest is not limited to the market itself.

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Tanzania to mark 50 years of milestone discovery of origin of man - 2009

The late Louis Leakey measures skull found

in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (1903 - 1972)

More about Dr. Leakey and his wife

DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzania is set to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the milestone discovery of the skull of the oldest man in the world that was made by Africa’s famous archaeologists, Dr. Louis Leakey and his wife Mary, in the

excavation area of Olduvai inside Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA).
Celebrations and a conference that will take place in mid-August of this year will attract famous historians, archaeologists, and natural history scientists from all over the world to visit the excavation site at Olduvai Gorge where the Leakeys discovered the skull believed to be of the earliest man on earth, dated over 1.75 million years ago.
The Leakeys’ work in Tanzania changed the knowledge of the evolution of mankind and of history.
It is hoped that the conference delegates will join tourists from around the world to visit and explore the excavation site at Olduvai Gorge, the actual place of the discovery of the remains of the early man and enjoy the natural wonders of the entire Ngorongoro Conservation Area, including the large numbers of wildlife in the Ngorongoro Crater, often referred to by many tourists as the "Eighth Wonder of the World."
British archeologists, Drs. Louis and Mary Leakey, who were working in Tanzania discovered a humanoid skull with huge teeth that they named Zinjanthropus.
The excellent condition of the skull allowed scientists to date the beginnings of mankind to about two million years ago and to verify that human evolution began not in Asia, as previously thought, but in Africa. In keeping with the significance of this information, Olduvai Gorge is now known as “The Cradle of Mankind.”
Zinjathropus was later named Australopithecus Boisei, after Charles Boise who funded the Leakeys’ research. Two decades later, hominid footprints were found at Laetoli, south of Olduvai, and were dated to be older than 3.5 to 4 million years.
Among exhibits inside the Olduvai museum are hominid footprints preserved inside volcanic rock dated 3.6

million years old, representing some of the earliest signs of the small-brained, upright-walking man ever to be found somewhere else in the world.
Excavations at Olduvai Gorge are still going on and continue to produce splendid specimens of extinct hominids, animals, and plants. Since the Leakey discovery, examples of at least three species of hominids have been found their.
Other discoveries were the Homo habilis and Homo erectus which are said to be much closer to modern man. In addition, the two earliest stone tools were discovered at Oldowan and Acheulian. along with fossil remains of the earliest man. Both the fossils and the tools have been crucial to understanding human evolution.
Natural history scientists believe that the earliest man had a brain about 40 percent the size of modern man, were much more muscular, and measured about four to four-and-a-half feet tall. They may have primarily lived in wooded areas, eating grubs, meat, and plants.
Olduvai Gorge also remains the national and international icon of human origin studies and has been declared by the United Nations Educational and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) as a world heritage site.
The Olduvai Gorge, which is located some 250 kilometers west of northern Tanzania’s tourist hub of Arusha and roughly between the Ngorongoro crater and Serengeti national park, attracts about 60,000 visitors a year, most of them researchers and students from across the world.
Known as the “Last Garden of Eden,” Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) in northern Tanzania’s tourist circuit has been seriously encroached by nomadic Maasai herdsmen looking for green livestock pastures inside the wildlife-populated and conserved land.
NCA was established in 1959 and was the working home for its founder and famous German zoologist, Dr. Bernhard Grzimeck, and his son Michael who together filmed the entire and modern conservation area and produced the thrilling wildlife film and a book “Serengeti Shall Never Die.”
The area supports high densities of wildlife throughout the year and contains the most visible population of the remaining black rhino in Tanzania. The NCA has over 25,000 large mammal including the black rhinos, elephants, wildebeests, hippos, zebras, giraffes, buffaloes, gazelles, and lions.
The crater is steep, 600 meters in depth, made by high natural walls that survived the volcano's subsidence or caldera. It covers 264 square kilometers, making it one of the largest, intact, and unflooded calderas in the world.
Every visit to the crater floor involves a precarious descent from the forested rim by a four-wheel-drive vehicle. The species listed as permanent residents inside the crater are giraffes, the black rhinos, ostriches, leopards, nocturnal animals, birds, and many other grass-eating mammals.
Tourist attractions and the importance of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area are growing daily because of its idyllic nature and landscape made up of the crater and the wide plains outside the crater rim, which add more tourist-attractive scenery there.

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