Dar es Salaam Travel Guide

Dar Es Salaam is the biggest city, the economic center, and the old capital of Tanzania. In 1866, Sultan Seyyid Madjid de Zanzibar gave the current name of the city which means in Arabic Haven of peace. After the death of Madjid in 1870, the city declines until the establishment in 1887 of a counter of a German company.
A half day visit could start with Ashar listed monument inheritance of UNESCO, then to discover Cenotaph, monument which commemorates the war 1914-1918 inaugurated in 1927 and to restore a few times ago. To also see Berliner mission. To visit the botanic Gardens of 1893, recently restored, the garden became the seat of horticulture academy, rare place where tourists can admire palm trees coconut-of-sea.

Discover the main tourist sites of Dar Es Salam:
The reserve of Selous
This immense wide savage and little attended is, says one, the greatest natural reserve of planet (54 600 km ²). According to the estimates, it would shelter the most important world populations of elephants, buffaloes, crocodiles, hippopotamuses and of jackals

Kilimandjaro mount
Kilimandjaro draws up its almost perfect cone with the right in the middle of the plains of the extreme North-East of Tanzania. Crowned eternal snow, this volcano still in activity culminates to 5.895 m. It is the highest top of the African continent .

Park of Manyara
The National park of Manyara, with 330 km ², including 230 for the lake. It is presented in the form of a long corridor on western bank of the lake. Integral part of the great fault of the Valley Rift, the western bank raises in a large gray cliff above water turquoises.

Park of Serengeti
With a surface of 14.763 km ², Serengeti is the most known natural reserve of Tanzania. It gives a good outline of it what the major part of l' resembled; Eastern Africa before the arrival of the " large white hunters". If unwise destruction of the fauna of savanna is started as of the end of the XIXe century, the practices of the hunters of trophies and the poachers in search of ivory, more recent, strongly weighed down the assessment of these massacres.

The crater of Ngorongoro, Pemba island, historical lord, coral reef, the throats of Olduvai: located in the protected area of the crater of Ngorongoro.