Palace Museum (Beit al-Sahel) Stone Town

It took us a 8hour bus drive from Moshi to Dar es Salaam. The bus station is still at least 15min. car drive from the harbor, where we had to take the ferry to Zanzibar. We arrived at 15.30 to the bus station, got a taxi and were still on time for the last ferry to Zanzibar at 16hrs. The taxi driver took us to a different ferry than we asked, I …

Zanzibar's charm is legendary. One of East Africa’s great trading centres, the archipelago has been for centuries a crossroads of culture, a melting pot of influences where Africa, India and Arabia meet, a complete change of pace from the mainland, a place where life’s rhythms are set by the monsoon winds and the cycles of the …

... years later David Livingstone went there for tea. The original building was destroyed in the British bombardment, but the new Palace Museum built in its place houses the ornate gold finished furniture, black tinged mirrors and ornaments left behind when ...

... It was a morning of culture as I visited the Palace Museum, the House of Wonders and the Old Fort. The Palace Museum, a now greyish whitewashed building that houses, among numerous treasures, portrait paintings and signed treaties, a whole room dedicated ...

... kind, and at the touristic areas they would try to sell souvenirs and talk to us all the time. We finally got to The Palace Museum, which was the residency of the last Sultan of Oman in Zanzibar under British protectorate, it gave a good insight in how ...

... site seeing. First we passed the Old Dispensary building which was imposing even from the street. Next we came across the Palace Museum, which we entered for a quick tour. The old rooms are still intact with the furniture of the first ...