Tanzania Entertainment Guide

Tanzania serves up a storm of food styles to visitors to its shores. Take a pick from Arab grills, Indian curries, native African dishes and even Chinese and European food. Most hotels have in house restaurants serving a variety of cuisines and bars where along with regular alcoholic drinks, local beer, lager, gin, wine and an interesting local liqueur made from coconuts called Afrikoko is served. Many of the restaurants serve local Tanzanian cuisine using the fresh ingredients like seafood and tropical fruits.

Entertainment options are, happily, not restricted by the Islamic inclination of the country. Dar es Salaam has plenty of discos and nightclubs, some of which even put up live performances of Swahili and Congolese musicians and cabarets, too. The main focus of the entertainment scene is centred on the hotels and restaurants that cater to tourists. Tamer attractions would include cinemas, theatre and ethnic dance performances.

Shopping

Tanzanian cities and towns have plenty of markets selling traditionally African wares like animal skin drums, beaten brass and copper ware, wooden carvings, textiles, chess sets in bone, ivory and wood and ethnic jewellery. The most attractive item in the markets of Tanzania, an item that literally has visitors and serious shoppers drooling is the absolutely superb Makonde (ebony carvings), sold at throwaway prices. In Dar es Salaam, the good craft shops are located along the street between the Clock Tower & Goliondi Road.