Stone Town Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

We arrived in Zanzibar Town (Stone Town) around 4pm on the Flying Horse. In order to save a bit of money we had chosen the ferry Flying Horse instead of the much faster catamarans. It was wasn't flying very fast though, so a journey which could have taken approximately 90 minutes took about 4 hours - but hey! It is not everyday you on board a r...

Somehow or other we found ourselves driving a car in Zanzibar - what a crazy thing to do! We had an early 5.00am start (no alarm clock - its in our missing luggage - but the Muslim call to prayer does the trick) and the previous night our lovely receptionist at the Flamingo had organized a taxi to get us to the Tanzanian Air office, for our shut...

Our guest house was located directly across a narrow street from a mosque. With it being Ramadan, we got a very loud wake up call as prayer service was broadcasted over a loud speaker at roughly 5:30 am. It did not last too long and we settled back in to sleep until the late hours of at least 7 am. We got some breakfast which was unique in that ...

The church: The Anglican Cathedral, Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania Denomination: Anglican - I'm guessing Church of Tanzania The building: The cathedral was built in the 1870s following the neo-gothic style. It's not very nice from the outside, inside it's like a typical gothic-revival city church. The church: The church was built by the Universi...