Zanzibar, Tanzania Travel Blogs

Nungwi, Zanzibar Island
Dec 13, 2002 (27 photos)

... 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 the German ...

Holding it as if my life depended on it
May 22, 2004 (25 photos)

... 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 travelling ...

Zanzibar days.....Ticket madness
Apr 2, 2005 (21 photos)

... .... 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 stepping ...

A lucky escape (CONTAINS VIDEO)
May 24, 2007 (7 photos)

... .  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 compulsory ...

Nungwi and the full moon party
Mar 15, 2006 (17 photos)

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 ...

The exotic land of Zanzibar
Feb 23, 2005 (5 photos)

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 ...

Stonetown - Zanzibar and spice tours
Mar 12, 2006 (19 photos)

... 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 ...

Zanzibar the island paradise
Dec 7, 2005 (5 photos)

... the beach. It was called Mercury's. Named after the lead singer of Queen, Freddy Mercury. He was born here on Zanzibar. This island is absolute paradise, we were told it was even more beautiful than the Caribbean islands, and we have to agree. It ...

It's a Kind of Tragic
Oct 2, 2006 (2 photos)

... . 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 ...

Jambo from Zanzibar!
Apr 17, 2006 (19 photos)

... 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 day!

A vacation from the vacation
Aug 15, 2003 (10 photos)

... , 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 city ...

It Was All Worthwhile
Aug 23, 2006 (5 photos)

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 ...

Just the name "Zanzibar" sounds exotic, doesn't it
Oct 5, 2006 (6 photos)

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 ...

Still hanging out on Zanzibar Island
Dec 16, 2005 (6 photos)

... all about. We will be spending a few more days in Stonetown and have made plans to fly from Zanzibar via Dar el Salaam on the mainland of Tanzania through to Johannesburg in South Africa. There a whole new adventure will begin I'm sure. Until then, ...

Weekend in Zanzibar Darling
Apr 25, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

A little spice
Aug 10, 2008 (41 photos)

... me!  Wandering around Asia is a bonus.  We were introduced to clove flowers, told how cloves are harvested, etc.  Zanzibar used to export something like 70% of cloves to the world market, but now Indonesia is a fierce competitor.  Ever ...

Zanzibar
Dec 6, 2006

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Zanzibar - (with lots of rain)
Nov 13, 2007 (11 photos)

... mountain, but 10 minutes into our flight to Zanzibar, Mt Kilimanjaro popped out of the clouds, looking magnificent. Arriving at Zanzibar airport we were mobbed in the usual fashion for transport and taxis and it dawned us that without our Lonely Planet ...

The magical streets of Stone Town
Aug 11, 2008 (50 photos)

... the beach.  There are so many tourists here and all the hotels are either full or quite expensive.  We decided to wait to Malawi.  But Zanzibar isn't all about the beaches.  Try to fit some time in for the Town as well. ~Travis

Zanzibar
Jul 13, 2003 (3 photos)

Hi Guys, You can read our update from Zanzibar in our entry from Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania entitled 'Tanzania is Stripey!'. Cheers, K & S

Zanzibar Island....Paradise??!
Oct 22, 2005 (5 photos)

... to leave on Monday back to the mainland, where we shall stay another couple of nights in Tanzania before entering Malawi. Love hugs kisses Ali and Matt xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

where the wild things are - Africa Safari (part I)
Dec 23, 2004 (48 photos)

... get some of the stuff but don't have anywhere to pack it and am too cheap to ship it home. The border crossing into Tanzania wasn't too much of a hassle. We stopped at a campsite next to Lake Victoria for the evening. There was another Acacia tour group ...

The Spice Island
Nov 14, 2004 (6 photos)

... help much. Walking on the beach is like being in the snow it's so bright. We flew into Stone Town, the biggest city on Zanzibar, and there were only four of us that got off the plane. There are tourists here but they are all European and most are part ...

Zanzibar
Dec 9, 2007 (4 photos)

A quick touch down at Zanibar INTERNATIONAL (!) airport to let some folks off, and some tanned tourists on and we were off again to Dar. So late, so late. I hope I make my flight home, although the island looks like a paradise to explore one day.

Missing Entry
May 28, 2003

... to me. ----------- It's later and I haven't really looked, however here's Em's voice on the matter. ........... Subject: Tanzania - part two. Sorry... very long e-mail, again. Chapter 3, in which Emma and Joanna are rained out of ...

Welcome Mr Mzungu!
Jul 4, 2006 (19 photos)

After the riggors of a hard safari we figured we were do some good R&R. When in Tanzania there is only one destination: Zanzibar! We arrived in Stone Town after a short 15 minute hop from Dar. We heard the seas between the mainland and the island were a ...

Christmas in Zanzibar
Dec 25, 2003 (3 photos)

... rooms were cleaned every day. Peeping into the (more expensive) upstairs rooms, I saw ornately carved 4 poster beds, and traditional Zanzibar wooden furniture... Maybe one day!!! It was so nice to meet up with Kirsty again, and we went for wonder down ...

New Year in Zanzibar
Dec 31, 2003 (2 photos)

... . It was the happiest K and I had been, singing along to 'Jambo, Jambo Bwana' on the radio, a pop song the whole of Tanzania has gone crazy about. Later in the Gardens, we bumped in Dennis again. He seemed so happy to see us that we felt welcomed and sat ...

A touch of Zanzibar - The Dups's
Jun 8, 2008 (10 photos)

... and very commercialized. Another downer was that we had just heard that the main power line running from Tanzania to the island was cut and so Zanzibar was now also powerless, with only  a few upmarket places owning generators which didn't add much ...

Zanzibar
Oct 18, 2006 (15 photos)

... collapsed between 1982 and 1992. There are a number of programmes and organisations working to solve these problems: ·Zanzibar Stone Town Heritage Society - NGO Project ·Conservation Centre ·Urban Village Project - working to improve living conditions ...