Dar es Salaam & Stone Town

Dar es Salaam, 'place of peace', is not a quiet city. It hums. High humidity, late nights, and long lunches produce a swagger that mirrors Luanda, its energetic equivalent on the west coast.

That attitude runs deep into the city's cultural and creative output, and seventy kilometres across the water, Zanzibar compounds it. Stone Town is one of the great living urban monuments of the Swahili world.