Prison Island - Changuu Private Island Stone Town

2 September 2008

My aunt's alarm clock goes off at 4 and for half an hour we try to get out of sleeping mode, then get up and go to the airport. My Mom takes us, we normally pay in some or other way, and this time we used garden pots as the bribe.

Imagine: an aeroplane that is on time. We fly cheaply on One Time a South African …

... as Changuu, was first used by Arab slave merchants to detain unruly slaves, before the British built what was intended as a prison for Stone Town in 1890. The building was never used as a prison, though later it did become a quarantine station for ...

... to try all the different fruit! It was awesome! After that they took us out for lunch and then we were off to Prison Island. On prison island there is a family of giant tortoise's that were believed to have been a gift to the sultan of Zanzibar over a ...

... been stung by a jellyfish on her FACE so that was it I was outta there!! The best bit was the giant tortoises that live on Prison Island, the oldest is about 180 years old. They are huge, and you can feed them and stroke them, really cool. So after a ...

... find the tortoises. Which wasn't hard, considering the island is only a kilometre long, and the tortoises are pretty huge. Prison Island was never actually used as a prison base, even though it was intended as one, and the building was ...

... , a local fisherman, took us out in his boat to the island, which is only a 30 minutes boat ride from Stone Town. It is called Prison Island because a prison was built on it in 1893 for the purpose to house Zanzibar's criminals. However it has ...

... mainland Africa were kept hidden before export to Arabia during the time when slavery was illegal.  Another day we went to Prison Island to swim and snorkel.  Prison Island is were they kept people with small pox quarantined once upon a time ...

... us around a forest to see where they collected the varying spices and fruits; with a few hours on the beach, a tour of 'prison island' (that didn't actually have a previous prison! only some giant tortoises, that weren't even native to it!- but a gift ...

... taking us everywhere. We got to our hotel which was quaint and ok (a/c+ running warm water+ fan = heaven). We later went to Prison Island where I took tons of amazing pictures, a video of tortoises mating, and went in the beach water. The beach was very ...

... end – so, so gutted. I even suggested we shouldn’t pay as much, but it of course fell on deaf ears! We gave Prison Island a miss as we were back so late. We took a local guy from the tour operator GAP office, to the police station where we ...

... , except a Spice Tour. I know that Zanzibar is renowned for its spices, but it is a 9am-3pm experience and I chose the Prison Island tour over this. I don’t like spices anyway. The Prison Island tour started with an anxious feeling. I arranged thru ...