Taste of Mexico

Dar es Salaam


This place offers simple, spacious rooms in an attractive, Mediterranean-style building. There's also a breezy rooftop bar and restaurant featuring Mexican dishes. The property is signposted and is one block in from Old Bagamoyo Rd (the turn-off is three blocks north of Bima Rd and about 2km north of Mikocheni B cemetery).


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