Dar es Salaam, a major city and commercial port on Tanzania’s Indian Ocean coast, grew from a fishing village known as Mzizima. The open-air Village Museum has re-created the traditional homes of local and other Tanzanian tribes and hosts tribal dancing and this is one of East Africa’s most exciting cities. It’s part of the National Museum, which offers Tanzanian history exhibits, including the fossils of human ancestors found by Anthropologist Louis Leakey.