The city of Dar es Salaam is the “heart of Tanzania” and judging by where many Dar es Salaam hotels are concentrated, the heart of the city stretches from the inner harbor to the harbor. mouth of the lagoon on the peninsula that juts out into the Indian Ocean before the coast moves north…

As for the larger arteries of the city, Kilwa Road is the main route (B2) to the south with Morogoro Road the main route (A7) to the northwest and inland. Nyerere Road is the road to the airport to the southwest of the city, while entering the city, Nyerere becomes Bibi Titi Road as it progresses towards the main commercial hub.

If you continue on Bibi Titi and then to the right at the intersection with Ohio Street, you will be heading towards the National Museum and half a dozen hotels in the city. For example, if you go through Ohio and turn left onto Garden Avenue, a couple of blocks before Sokoine Drive, you will come to one of Dar es Salaam’s iconic hotels: the Southern Sun Dar es Salaam is just beyond the house of the Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania, past the German embassy and right next to International House.

Of all the hotels in Dar es Salaam, the Southern Sun’s is the closest to the city’s Botanical Gardens and is less than a kilometer from Ocean Road, where you can turn right if you want to head towards the port, or to the left to head north in the direction of some of the beaches. And in addition to being close to the German Embassy, ​​it’s also one of the closest Dar es Salaam hotels to several other embassies, including those of Canada, Mozambique, the Netherlands and Denmark.

Many of the streets leading to and from Dar es Salaam hotels and various other attractions are named after famous people, notably various political leaders of the past. In addition to the airport road named after Julius Nyerere, there is also Nelson Mandela Road near the docks, Kaunda Drive, Haile Selassie Road leading from Bagamoyo Road where several bus stops are located in the city center, to the north of the peninsula and Lithule Road near the State House. Samora Machel Avenue runs parallel to Garden Avenue, linking Ocean Road Hospital with the Askari Monument and Indira Gandhi Street, and the list goes on.