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Municipality in and capital of Morogoro Region, Tanzania
Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL 1.2 via Wikimedia Commons
Morogoro is a city in the Central Tanzania region of Tanzania. There are old German buildings in the city from the colonial period. The city is at the base of the Ulughuru Mountains, which makes it an ideal base for hikers and campers.
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Beautiful Hindu temple. Having nice prayers with Prasadam on every Saturday.
(see map) Serves a varied, continental-style menu, with great specials. Possibly the fanciest place in town. Great atmosphere at the huge antique bar, beautiful front porch, and cozy open-air patio. Excellent chips/fries, burgers, an amazing club sandwich with real bacon and the all day breakfast with their own house roasted coffee. Co-located Agnes and her spa offers manicures, pedicures, massages and waxing.A handful of quaint rooms are available, definitely the best breakfast in town.Walking from the dala stand, head East on the Old Dar Es Salaam road. Go past the posta roundabout, around the bend to the left, past the cathedral, and it's on the left across from the SDA church. fresh roast coffee beans, t-shirts and crafts are sold most days, fast wi/fi, and they can arrange hiking and transport to Dar and Mikumi at a reasonable price.
(see map) Offers a massive (10 pages) menu of Indian and Chinese, as well as Tanzanian, food. Coldest beers in town, with a full bar. Outdoor seating (bring bug spray). Large hotel with more than 30 rooms available. Swimming pool. Mostly hosts conferences & events. Walking from town onto Station Road, it's just past Mama Pierina's right next door to each other(above).
The New Acropol Hotel has a sangria jug and many other party pitchers on their special menu. The pitchers can serve over 4 persons and come full of fresh fruit and local berries. Really enjoyable with a few people cause it works out quite inexpensive per person. They will stay open late if prearranged, also cool North American snack menu if you talk to Venance the barman. They do not put up with open containers, show them and they will let you pay a minimal corkage fee. Really yummy cocktails when Venance is in the mood.
will allow camping
Extremely clean, inexpensive rooms, self-contained and air conditioned, very well maintained by hospitality professionals and graduate of Utalii College, safe and quiet place, best value for money can buy in town. Breakfast is included.
Single/double room with own bathroom.
A wide variety of grains, fruits, vegetables, and meats are available. If you accept a plastic bag from a child, you are agreeing to buy it (TSh 50-100). Bag vendors will also carry your groceries as you shop if you let them, and expect a tip.
This market is on the west side of the town; follow the Old Dar Es Salaam Road past the main market, go over the small bridge; at the SUA roundabout, bear to the right; the street dead-ends into a row of shops. The entrance is roughly where the road ends, leading behind the shops. It is full of stalls selling all kinds of stuff, mostly very inexpensive used clothes, linens, etc. Sundays is a great day to go. Be careful of pick-pockets.
Pira's one of the nicest minimarkets in town, carrying a wide variety of packaged goods; canned food, housewares, etc. A decent candy selection, frozen meats, and liquor as well, but limited produce. It is one block to the north of the daladala stand.
A decent supermarket in the center of downtown and stays open late.
A second store run by Murad's, closer to central downtown, but with a smaller selection.
Large but cramped supermarket on the corner near Sofia Hotel (opposite Murad's Supermarket 2). Good fresh bread and rolls.
Offering a wide range of electronics including cell phones, stereos, even furniture. Worth a visit just to see what they have. They also have a parts store roughly across from Blue Room Restaurant.
Wide variety of appliances, stereos. Also blank CDs, and pre-recorded CDs & DVDs; they're almost all pirated.
A very nice computer store, with complete systems, parts, peripherals, toner cartridges, blank media, etc. Friendly staff.
Cell phones & accessories.
Electronic parts and appliances.
By train
Morogoro is the terminus of the first phase of Tanzania's new high-speed railway network, known as SGR. Travel time from Dar es Salaam is around two hours. This new line was opened in 2024.
By car
The roads from Morogoro to Dar es Salaam, Iringa and Dodoma are paved and generally in good condition, making Morogoro relatively easy to get to by car.
By bus
The Morogoro bus stand is called Msamvu Terminal and is a 10-minute dala-dala ride from downtown. From Msamvu, you can get buses to almost anywhere in Tanzania.
By daladala
Daladalas are minibuses that ply local routes. They generally leave when full (all seats plus standing passengers). The dala stand is in the center of downtown (see map).
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