Dar es Salaam, on Tanzania's Indian Ocean coast at 6.8°S, has a near-equatorial sky where the galactic core passes high overhead and both hemispheres are accessible. The city's Bortle 7 glow and the humid coastal climate limit observing, but inland — toward the vast national parks and the highlands — dark Bortle 2–3 skies open up under some of Africa's least light-polluted landscapes. The Serengeti and the central plateau offer pristine darkness. The dry seasons (June to October, and a shorter window in January-February) bring the most reliable clear nights for the brilliant southern Milky Way.