Towns & Cities in Tanzania


Vendors display their wares in whatever open space they can find around this chaotic, crowded city.

Arusha, Tanzania

Arusha is a crowded, vibrant market town, and a convenient hub for the many tourists who use it as a launching pad for safari's to the nearby wildlife reserves.

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Bagamoyo is the centre of Tanzania?s Dhow building industry.

Bagamoyo

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A sleepy town of around 30,000 Bagamoyo is the centre of the local Tanzanian dhow building industry.

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The Dar es Salaam yacht club in Msasani Bay is one of the few places in the city where you can look west over the sea and follow the setting sun.

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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Dar es Salaam is Tanzania's largest and most prosperous city with 2.5 million inhabitants according to the last official census in 2002.

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Uninterrupted views over the Wissmann Bay on the north shores of Lake Nyasa.

Matema, Lake Nyasa, Tanzania

Matema is a small, friendly and wonderfully relaxed fishing village on the north east corner of Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi).

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Brightly coloured bags and prints fill a crumbling doorway along one of Stone Town?s maze-like network of alleys.

Stone Town, Zanzibar

Stone Town is the name given to the western most peninsular of Zanzibar Town, the capital and largest urban centre on the island of Zanzibar.

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