Country Info
- Dar es Salaam
- Capital
- Tanzanian Shilling (TZS)
- Currency
- 36,232,074
- Population
- TZ
- Country Code
Zanzibar Slideshow
Top Hotels in Zanzibar
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Zamani Zanzibar Kempinski Kiwengwa
38 reviews -
Fairmont Zanzibar
36 reviews -
Bluebay Beach Resort Kiwengwa
206 reviews
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Zanzibar Serena Inn Stone Town
188 reviews
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Bravo Kiwengwa Zanzibar
25 reviews -
Zanzibar Beach Resort Matemwe
41 reviews
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Zanzibar Safari Club Uroa Village
6 reviews -
Karafuu Hotel Beach Resort Zanzibar
234 reviews
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Sunset Bay Hotel Nungwi
97 reviews
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Mapenzi Beach Club Zanzibar
124 reviews
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Coral Rock Hotel Jambiani
209 reviews
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Changuu Private Island Paradise Stone Town
1 review
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Island View Hotel Zanzibar
1 review
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Al Johari Stone Town
43 reviews
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Andy's Karibuni Romantic Garden Bwejuu
2 reviews
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Chapwani Private island Zanzibar
24 reviews
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Pongwe Beach Hotel
331 reviews
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Baghani House Hotel Stone Town
1 review
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Echo Beach Hotel Bwejuu
105 reviews
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Coral Reef Resort Zanzibar
206 reviews
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Africa House Stone Town
68 reviews
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Hotel International Stone Town
2 reviews
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Sunrise Guest House Hotel Bwejuu
16 reviews
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Chavda Hotel Stone Town
35 reviews
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Evergreen Bungalows Bwejuu
18 reviews
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Flame Tree Cottages Zanzibar
69 reviews
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Warere Town House Stone Town
35 reviews
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Arabian Nights Hotel Paje
43 reviews
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Garden Lodge Stone Town
21 reviews
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Ras Nungwi Beach Hotel
215 reviews
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Hakuna Majiwe Lodge Paje
146 reviews
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Jamboclub Stone Town
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Sazani Beach & Dive Centre Nungwi
40 reviews
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Paje by Night Hotel
106 reviews
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Mbweni Ruins Hotel Stone Town
46 reviews
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Smiles Beach Lodge Nungwi
6 reviews
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Paje Beach Bungalows
3 reviews
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Menai Bay Beach Bungalows Zanzibar
1 review
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Mtoni Marine Stone Town
60 reviews
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Tanzanite Beach Resort Nungwi
45 reviews
Zanzibar
Travel Blogs from Zanzibar, Tanzania
Kendwa, Zanzibar
This is a top pick! ... of life there and that my ideas will change as I have a feeling that I may be biased right now! Corinne 18 Sept, Kendwa, Zanzibar Toutes les jeunes filles musulmanes se sont retournées vers Lance et ont toutes crié à la fois: «Non !!» ...
Zanzibar Island
This is a top pick! ... are usually the biggest and most noticeable buildings here. Speaking of architecture, there are beautiful buildings here, especially on Zanzibar. The area was first popularized with the spice trade about 200 years ago. That was followed by ...
Stonetown, Zanzibar
This is a top pick! ... days, in Africa, with my old friend Langis. How many times have I told stories from that trip!!? Lance 20 Sept, Stonetown, Zanzibar Lance et Roman sont allés avec un dalla dalla (bus local plein de gens) à Stonetown puis, Peggy et Tristan ont ...
Zanzibar!
This is a top pick! ... plane/train, arrive and get taxi to hotel. No not today, today we commence our journey onward to the breathtaking island of Zanzibar. In this county a real journey, one that will involve many steps. But one thing remains similar, it starts early. At ...
Holding it as if my life depended on it
This is a top pick! ... a wreck and thought, "Jan was right, I'm surfacing". Back on the truck again, we left Malawi and headed across the border into Tanzania. The roads were a bit better and I was no longer being jounced around and was starting to enjoy the view, we were ...
Contrast
This is a top pick! The contrast is shocking. Behind us is a small 'village' where the kids live on the sand road, the houses are made of clay and cardboard and women are trying to cook a fish and some rice on a wood fire. The small town, just a couple of kilometers past ...
Zanzibar days.....Ticket madness
This is a top pick! ... old when.... you like more tracks in an airlines 'easy listening' section than in the 'rock' section.... Abstract: Went to beautiful Zanzibar for some diving and R'n'R on the beach, wonderful, bus to Mombasa. Train ride from Mombasa to Nairobi was like ...
Nungwi and the full moon party
This is a top pick! Took the 8am bus to Nungwi, a beach resort right on the northern tip of Zanzibar and booked into the Jambo Bothers Resort. Man this place is gorgeous. White sand, turquoise sea and small dhows both in and out of the water. Nungwi is known for is boat ...
A lucky escape (CONTAINS VIDEO)
This is a top pick! ... sir, madam. I am waiting for you in the immigration office," he says, pointing to a nearby building. Although Zanzibar is part of Tanzania it still retains its own immigration section, mainly for ego reasons. We had heard that it is not ...
Motos and tuba, par Corinne et Fabyan
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas... Sept 16, Zanzibar, Paje beach, motorcycles and snorkelling Zooming by white sand and sometimes desolate hotels or others that do have some tourists in them, I hold my (too big) helmet with one hand because it keeps on changing ...
The exotic land of Zanzibar
This is a top pick! Sarah and i have just spent a week enjoying the finest Zanzibar has to offer. After spending 2 nights in Dar Es Salam (known simply as Dar to the locals) we caught a ferry over the waves to arrive in Zanzibar by evening. The sky was cloudless and ...
Ferry to Pemba
This is a top pick! ngalawa outrigger Raf, Cisca, Helena, Eric, Annie, Neil, Mia, Nancy, Ali, Alex, Dar - Pemba, Chake ...
Kendwa snorkelling, Zanzibar
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas... Sept 19, Kendwa, Snorkelling, Zanzibar I will have to admit that the beaches here are incredible, not only because of the white fine sand and the beautiful blue and turquoise waters, but also because one can find the type of ...
Stonetown - Zanzibar and spice tours
This is a top pick! ... I love the sea and was more than happy to sit on the upper deck for the whole trip watching Dar disappear and Zanzibar getting closer. There were loads of containers on the docks in Stonetown and I wondered what they all had inside. Safety obviously ...
Jambo from Zanzibar!
This is a top pick! ... or another. While Ed and I managed to keep our lunches down (just barely though), we were relieved when we got off the boat and stood on solid ground again. Zanzibar is a truly beautiful place, and we've already decided we'll be going back some ...
Stonetown, Paje and Daladalas!
This is a top pick! Flew from Nairobi to Stonetown the historic city on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar...it was an easy flight on a prop plane with marginal pressurization capacities! Stayed in the Malindi district 'near the port' as the ad for the hostel ...
Zanzibar, Paje beach; la plage de Paje
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas… Sept 14, Zanzibar, Paje beach Sitting waist deep, a pile of seaweeds in front of them, they tend to their garden, except that it is in blue salty water as compared to digging back earth. Rows after rows, the algae grows, ...
A vacation from the vacation
This is a top pick! ... , as Susan remembers it) off the coast of Tanzania, and has been important in the Spice Trade for centuries. As a result, Zanzibar is a very interesting blend of Swahili, Arabic, and Indian cultures. Stone Town, the capital city, is a beautifully old ...
It's a Kind of Tragic
This is a top pick! ... . He then formed a band, wrote a couple of classic songs and changed his name to Freddie Mercury. The mere name of Zanzibar evokes images of the impossibly exotic, as though it was created by Robert Louis Stevenson in one of his swashbuckling pirate ...
Just the name "Zanzibar" sounds exotic, doesn't it
This is a top pick! He Said: We started out a few days ago with a short flight south from Mombasa to the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. The island was a major hub for the Indian Ocean trade in gold, ivory, spices, and other goods as early as the 1300's. In the darkest part ...
Into the Deep
This is a top pick! We were the last ones to be picked up by an old school bus. The bus was full of dive and snorkel crowd. The boats where not to far away, so the uncomfortable ride was short. Out of the bus we had to grab a tank and a dive bag with our gear and drag it ...
Of dogshows and African diatribes
This is a top pick! ... and violent, becomes a pat reply. [Enter into an ongoing conversation with myself ...] Travelling across Ethiopia, Kenya and into Tanzania for the first time, there is a rank danger of applying preconceptions and broad brush strokes to Africa as a whole, ...
It Was All Worthwhile
This is a top pick! I caught the cheaper and slower ferry over to Zanzibar, it's amazing how they make the sea that translucent turquiose colour. I had a quick overnight stop in Stonetown when I arrived before getting a tourist bus out to the east coast of Zanzibar. There ...
Weekend in Zanzibar Darling
This is a top pick! ... in New York, etc. We had a few hours to kill in Dar before heading to the domestic airport and flying out to Zanzibar over beautiful clear azure waters. We touch down in this tropical paradise of palm trees and white beaches and decide to spend a night ...
