Located next to the fascinating Tanzania National Museum, Dar es Salaam's Botanical Gardens offer the perfect place to enjoy some peace and quiet and to examine the country's colourful native flora. The Gardens date back to German colonisation.
Take time out to wander among purple bougainvillea, blue jacaranda, scarlet flame trees and red hibiscus. As well as the indigenous plants, trees, ferns and flowers, this is one of the few places in the world where you can see the coco-de-mer palm tree, native to the Seychelles. You might even spot a peacock or two!