About Saayaraha
So what is Saayaraha all about? What’s the point and purpose? Why does it exist? Who’s behind it? These are questions we get asked every day, so here are the answers for anyone that is interested to learn more.
The History and the Backstory
It all started back in 2022 when 4 friends started to discuss Tanzania in all its glory and trying to understand why other countries in Africa were more popular for tourists – despite being considerably less safer and with less to offer to a tourist.
Tanzania has beaches to rival Seychelles. It has safari’s that rival Kenya. It has some amazing, world class hotels and resorts. It has bars, restaurants and clubs that compete with the best that Africa has to offer. Then of course there is the music. Some of the most exciting beats taken to the world with energetic DJs and vibrant live performers.
As for safety – we don’t have the street crime, robberies, scams and kidnappings that happen in most of our neighbouring countries. In fact, Tanzania is the complete opposite. It’s safer than most western countries!
So why isn’t Tanzania right up there are one of the leading tourist destinations?
Simply because no one really knows enough about it to want to come here and visit.
We aren’t the best at marketing and brand building for our country. We aren’t good at bragging and boasting about our country (we’re typically quite humble as a nation) and we dont have the platforms or the medium to take the story of Tanzania to the world.
So that’s what we decided that we would do.
Saayaraha – The Mission
The mission is really simple. We want to share Tanzania with the world, in the way that we know best. By sharing stories, reviews, news and feature articles about the hospitality sector in Tanzania, with the world.
We do that through this website right here, Saayaraha.com, and through our presence on social media.
Our Core Content
Our core content focusses on all the things that a typical tourist would be interested in. Bars, restaurants, clubs, hotels and music.
Bars
We review bars. Starting with Dar Es Salaam, we are adding new bars every week as we get a chance to review them. You can read about the bars we have reviewed if you CLICK HERE.
Restaurants
If you’re a foodie, then you’re going to want to know all about the restaurants – and you can if you just CLICK HERE.
Clubs
Where to go if you want to party the night away, into the small hours – it’s clubs of course. You can read all about the clubs we have reviewed if you CLICK HERE.
Hotels
We all need somewhere to sleep and to rest, so hotels should be somewhere at the top of the list right? Check out all the hotels we have reviewed – just CLICK HERE for hotels.
Music
What would Tanzania be without music eh? It just wouldn’t be the same country. So check out all our music related content with a CLICK HERE.
The Saayaraha Team
We currently have a small team of people behind this project. In no particular order they are:
Francis – Tanzanian national, living in Dar Es Salaam, and responsible for most of the reviews on this site.
Darryl – South African National, responsible for design, layout, branding and other creative stuff.
Yvonne – Chinese national, helps out on social media (LinkedIn)
Jin Jin – Chinese national, helps out on social media (Facebook)
Scooperman – someone that prefers to remain anonymous. He has both architected the project (from inception through to bringing it to life) and funded the project.
Get Involved with Saayaraha
If you want to get involved with Saayaraha and help us, with some reviews of your own then why not get in touch? We don’t make any money from this site, so there’s no salary or payment. But if you’re an inspiring journalist looking to get published, then we’ll review your submissions and if they are good enough, we’ll publish them under your name and give you some exposure.
Use the email address given in the image below.
