Oysterbay Shopping Mall in Oysterbay

Oysterbay Shopping Centre is another one stop shop centre located in Oysterbay Peninsular area. It is about 3 km from Sea Cliff hotel, 1km from Colloseum Hotel, 1 km from Golf Course apartment.

Next to the centre is a private company offices, Sumeria, Ericsson and Heritage Insurans.

Here some pictures around Oysterbay Shopping Mall.

List of shop at Oysterbay shoping centre.

One of the restaurant sign at Oysterbay shopping centre

Main entrance Oysterbay Shopping Centre

Main signboard of Oysterbay shopping centre

Where to spend time with family on the weekend in Dar es Salaam?

Honestly, not so many places available to spend quality time with family on the weekend especially for those with kids.

I can name a few such as MarryBrown in Masaki, the new fast food restaurant in town provides children playground for free to their customer as a business attraction. Good playground facility but always full on the weekend.

Another playground and leisure area is Slip Way. It is about 1.5km up north from MarryBrown. Slip Way is a business complex where you can find Shrijee supermarket, Barclay bank, hotel, Japanese restaurant, to name a few. Behind the complex by the beach is an open area for kids to skate and cycling. There is also a playground where your kids can pla jumping castle, sands and swing with an entrance fee of 2000 tanzania shiling. Don't be surprised if you see a rusted playground facility there.

Jumping castle in the playground area. Entrance fee is 2000TSH per child. The open area is free. Kids can play roller blade, cycling or surfer. But you need to bring your own gear. No equipment for rental available.

Sunset view from Slip Way. Unfortunately I'm not a profesional photographer, only using a Sony pocket camera.

Where to shop for groceries in Dar Es Salaam?

For foreigner like me, going to downtown for grocery is rarely an option because of not familier with the way around, parking space and too woried about security. But if you are an adventures, you can get cheaper price in downtown.

There are several supermarket where I normally go for grocery. Shopper Plaza, Shoprite Supermarket, Village Supermarket and Shrijee Supermarket.

Most of the supermarkets are colocated in shopping mall together with other shop or boutique.

Below are shops or boutique at Mikocheni Shoppers Plaza:

• Shoppers Supermarket
• Subway, An American fastfood chain
• Standard Chartered Bank and ATM Machine
• Yaacob Jewellery where you can get Tanzanite
• Fairy Delights, restaurant. They serve buffet for lunch, 7000TSH per person. 
• Fairy Delights bakery
• Electronics shop selling appliances

On the 1st floor are:

• Bookshop
• Cafe-X, a nice spot for a weekend coffee.
• iStore next to Cafe-X, specilized MAC items.
• Total Looks SPA
• 9 months maternity clothes, a place for expecting mom
• Maya Vintage boutique
• Pharmacy
• Sport Shop
• Photo shop
• Laundry

Picture normally tells everything, so here are some photos of shop at shoppers plaza Mikocheni in Dar Es Salaam.

Shoppers Plaza at Mikocheni

An American fastfood chain, SubWay at Shoppers Plaza, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania