Country Info
- Dar es Salaam
- Capital
- Tanzanian Shilling (TZS)
- Currency
- 36,232,074
- Population
- TZ
- Country Code
Tanzania Slideshow
Top Hotels in Zanzibar Town
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Kinasi Lodge Mafia Island
74 reviews -
Pemba Crown Hotel Pemba Island
2 reviews -
Chavda Hotel Ltd Stone Town
43 reviews
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Hotel International Stone Town
1 review -
Echo Beach Hotel Bwejuu
109 reviews
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Karamba Resort Kizimkazi
86 reviews
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Hotel Karibu Dar es Salaam
3 reviews
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Sheraton Dar es Salaam
108 reviews
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Kilimanjaro Mountain Resort Kilimanjaro National Park
16 reviews
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Mafia Island Lodge
61 reviews
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Chapwani Private island Zanzibar
26 reviews
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Warere Town House Stone Town
45 reviews
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Sunrise Guest House Hotel Bwejuu
15 reviews -
Zanzibar Dolphin View Paradise Kizimkazi
37 reviews
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Sleep Inn Hotel Dar es Salaam
25 reviews
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Protea Hotel Aishi Kilimanjaro National Park
11 reviews
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Mountain Village Lodge Arusha
21 reviews
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Dhow Palace Hotel Stone Town
153 reviews
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Flame Tree Cottages Nungwi
78 reviews
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Evergreen Bungalows Bwejuu
20 reviews
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Hotel Ras Michamvi
53 reviews
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Keys Hotel, Dar es Salaam
4 reviews
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Royal Crown Hotel Kilimanjaro National Park
1 review
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New Safari Hotel Arusha
13 reviews
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Cassablanca Lodge Moshi
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Menai Bay Beach Bungalows Zanzibar
1 review
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Garden Lodge Stone Town
23 reviews
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Ras Nungwi Beach Hotel
230 reviews
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Robinson's Place Bwejuu
15 reviews
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Paradise Holiday Resort Bagamoyo
2 reviews
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Amani Beach Hotel Kutani
67 reviews
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Q-Bar & Guest House Dar es Salaam
23 reviews
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New Sinka Court Hotel Arusha
3 reviews
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Happy Family Cottage Hostel Moshi
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Sultan Palace Zanzibar
21 reviews
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Jamboclub Stone Town
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Sazani Beach Hotel Nungwi
44 reviews
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Anna Of Zanzibar Bwejuu
62 reviews -
Bagamoyo Beach Resort
19 reviews
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Serengeti Tented Camp - Ikoma Bush Camp Serengeti National Park
60 reviews
Zanzibar Town
Travel Blogs from Zanzibar Town, Tanzania
Zanzibar
... nbsp; Indeed, it's a magical place to see... Historical Note: In case you didn't know Tanzania was born went Tanganyika and Zanzibar were combined into 1 country. Tanganyika was a British name for the Tanzania territory before the ...
Old Stone town which needs to be restored and kept
... exception, especially the smells and sights with accompanying flies! So join me as I take you on a pictorial journey through the alley ways, narrow streets and markets of Stone Town, Zanzibar. As you can tell, I love taking photos of old doors and ...
No prisoners and plenty of tortoises
... and the building was completed. However, a severe cholera outbreak in Egypt alerted the risk of islanders becoming infected - especially as Zanzibar was once part of the major trade routes. So it was decided that the island would house those infected, to ...
Some well deserved holiday on Zanzibar island
... the touts barrage posted at the ferry terminal waiting to upset and confuse tourists (it did work well on Saoyuth!). Zanzibar is nothing like mainland Tanzania: It used to be an important spice trade center, owned by Oman. The island is a happy mix ...
metsas
Metsapäev. Transpordiks valisime vahelduse mõttes dalla-dalla. Tegemist kastiautoga, kuhu alati mahub istuma lisaks vähemalt üks inimene. 35 km ja tund aega. Metsas nägime kõigepealt pärdikuid, punaseid ja siniseid. Müttasime rohus ja nägime ...
Just when I thought it was over
... city of Dar, so I decided to pursue the slow boat. The man who owns the slow boat, a restaurant in Dar, and a hotel on Zanzibar - also had a travel agency near my hotel. So I stop by, buy my ticket and truly believe all to well. The next morning I go ...
Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl
... ;s a lot of competition and repetition between vendors and the menu essentially consists of fresh seafood skewers, samosas, various breads, soup, Zanzibar pizzas and sugar cane juice. Our favourite was the Zanzibar pizza; more like a stuffed crepe than a ...
Prison Island and Giant Turtoise
... 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 actually never been used for this purpose, but was instead used for the quarantine of ships and ...
Dar es Salaam to Stone Town
This morning we were all excited, as we started our journey to Zanzibar. Shortly after 6am we crossed the bay on the car ferry, took a dodgy taxi van to the port, then boarded the catamaran for Stone Town. On arrival we had some time ...
A welcome change of scenery
... things about Cape Town from travellers, and it is somewhere I've wanted to go for a fair few years now. But first, Zanzibar. I caught the two and a half hour ferry at midday today, enduring a whole CD's worth of Celine Dion filtering out from ...
Nungwi to Stone Town
On Thursday, what should have been a straight forward bus journey from Nungwi to Stone Town turned into a drama. After the driver turned up 40 minutes late, he drove down the driveway like a maniac and hit the fence.... check out the photo of the ...
Birthday Shennadiggans!
... nbsp;local forest for a mini-trek which took us into the path of a family of Red Colobus Monkeys, only found on Zanzibar. Then in the afternoon two more scuba dives seeing a vast amount of tropical fish, particularly stingrays and trigger fish amongst ...
Tanzania
... its present form in 1964 after a merger between the mainland Tanganyika and the island of Zanzibar, which had become independent the previous year. MARIE: I loved Tanzania, but like many of the African countries we drove through, I wished we had more ...
A beach vacation... cuz I really needed it.....(?)
... in Stone Town as the sun was setting and it couldn't have been a more dramatic and stunning introduction to Zanzibar. We spent only a night in Stone Town, which was long enough to get lost in the maze of narrow streets (only for bikes and scooters), ...
Goodbye Tanzania!
We are leaving the paradise of Kendwa today and flying out of the summertime of Zanzibar to land in the winter of Cape Town. We loved Kendwa, a truly idyllic beach and a wonderful stay at the White Sand Bungalows... thanks much Mohammed. We even ...
Sizzling in Zanzibar
... out for the daily catch and I for one quite literally fell in love with the place. We thus spent five lovely days in Zanzibar, exploring Stone Town for two of them and lounging on the beaches in the north for the other three. This was our holiday in the ...
Life's Rough in Zanzibar
... another. We then just want to get the heck out of there so we decide to buy fast ferry tickets (hour and a half to Zanzibar). "Eddy"'s boss is supposed to pay for half of the ticket (a refund) but even then he tries to short-change us ...
SPICY AFFAIR
Jambo from the Spice Islands. 95% Muslim and 5% Christian. In 90 minutes I had crossed from Dar es Salaam to Stone Town, Zanzibar by ferry. The next day I took a Spice Tour to a local plantation and viewed many of the spices in their natural ...
4 men on a boat
... of 'Jozani forest' (a national park in the centre of the island). Here we got to see red colobus monkeys (including babies), native to Zanzibar who were at ease with us being so close and taking lots of photos! We also found a few restaurants that were to ...
Zanzibar Part 2
... the House of Wonders museum (well worth the $3 entry). We watched the sunset sitting in the Mercury bar (Freddy Mercury was born on Zanzibar!). We listened to taraab music, ate at the night market (you have to try the sugar cane, lime and ginger juice, it ...
Small streets in Stone Town
... in Stone Town on April 27th and we were taken to our hotel. I mean, we were walked to our hotel. Stone Town is the old part of Zanzibar island where a lot of the slave trade went on before slavery was abolished. Therefore the oldest part of the city is ...
place of poets
What an outstanding place. It's an antiquated captivating town. These winding narrow streets are lined with large beautiful intricately carved wooden doors. If you picture what a charming port city from an ancient trade route would look like - that's ...
Stonetown bound
... , a small 12-passenger plane arrived to carry us out of the Serengeti towards Kilimanjaro and our subsequent connection to Zanzibar. A few of the passengers hesitated as they faced having to climb onboard something akin to a VW microbus with ...
Dhows and beans
... lined up to off-load 50 pound hemp sacks that had been stacked on pallets to the ceiling. We were in Zanzibar. As a kid, the name conjured up images of adventure, mystery and just the hint of danger. It fell in ...
In Need of Foreign Aid
I went to Stone Town today. This is Zanzibar's biggest town. I took a mini bus ($10) from Kendwa. A Dutch couple with 2 very young kids was also in the mini bus. Because the dad had a spot in the front and it was too unsafe for the 2.5 yr old boy to sit ...
Spice island
... to be invited back to the guide's house to eat lunch, prepared by his wife. Courtesy and friendliness seem common in Zanzibar - a refreshing change from the mainland and Dar es Salaam. You simply can't walk anywhere without being greeted with 'jambo!' ...
Living like a local in Zanzibar!
Although Tanzania is one country, Zanzibar remains semi-independent from the mainland, so we had to shuffle through an immigration process even though we've been in the same country for weeks. They're not too serious about it, though. On the ...
Life’s a beach and then we fly…
... , Jo, who also wanted to visit the island. Early the following morning we caught the first ferry to Zanzibar and, after a minor issue with our visas at Stone Town port (long story), we were met by a friend of a friend of a friend who’s apartment ...
Turtles, towels and other stories
... would cover the nests and rot them so all in all a fairly necessary project. I've got to go now but just a quick taster Zanzibar has been lovely, the red monkey lodge where we stayed was a bit more touristy than our other stops but ...