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- Dar es Salaam
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Top Hotels in Zanzibar Town
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Mamy Hotel Pemba Island
1 review -
The Africa House Hotel Stone Town
78 reviews
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Baghani House Hotel Stone Town
1 review
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Andy's Karibuni Romantic Garden Bwejuu
2 reviews
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Hakuna Matata Beach Lodge Bububu
291 reviews -
Dik Dik Hotel Arusha
15 reviews -
Mbuyuni Beach Village Jambiani
85 reviews
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Ocean Paradise Resort Kiwengwa
186 reviews
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Coco De Mer Hotel Stone Town
12 reviews -
Diamonds La Gemma dell' Est Zanzibar
280 reviews
Zanzibar Town
Travel Blogs from Zanzibar Town, Tanzania
Jun 18, 2011
London, Dar Es Salaam to Zanzibar
... was probably the highest price of all. The same goes for the water, matches, smokes that are on my shopping list. 2hr crossing to Zanzibar, sleeping most of that. More of the same when we disembark - a swarm of locals trying to carry our bags, get us in ...
Freddy Mercury was here..
... , the twin spires of some grand old church and hundreds upon hundreds of smaller buildings in no particular order. We had reached Stone Town, Zanzibar. Getting off the ferry and into customs was easy. Zanzibar though in a bid to maintain its self-imposed ...
When in Zanzibar..
... spinach and parma ham specials. Mercury's was memorable though for one amusing detail in that, after being named in honour of Zanzibar's most famous non-spiced export, Freddie Mercury, they obviously have no rights to use the Queen name or any mention of ...
When I got wet
... for two or three days before spending two days at the expensive beach resorts before heading back to Dar es Salaam and across Tanzania to Mwanza and into Uganda via Lake Victoria. Well the first of these has already been amended as paying double my ...
R & R in Zanzibar
... safari so we decided a week wouldn't do anyone any harm. As long as the long rains held off we would be fine. Zanzibar, like all of Tanzania is very expensive and there are many high end resorts on the east coast so in an effort to economize, we found a ...
the spice island
... stayed in a gorgeous hotel (caroline and rich's treat - thank you!) with a fantastic roof terrace overlooking the town. We had fantastic fish, meat and the zanzibar pizza at an eveing food market, making our way along the stalls, picking a bit of this and ...
Sun and Sand
A much deserved rest after climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. We've spent two glorious days enjoying the nice slow pace in Zanzibar. The beach is beautiful white sand. The water is a million shades of blue and tepid like bath water. Lot's of time to rest and ...
Oh Lord Fan-Dam
Quick update. The room fan is no more. Well it is but I'll be dammed if I'm turning the thing back on after an incident occurred today. A further update, which is heavily linked to the first, is that my bed or bedcovers or mosquito netting has fleas or ...
Is this Paradise?
... office in town and save yourself from the touts and hasslers!). We are now in Stonetown, which is the historic part of Zanzibar city (and a Unesco World Heritage Site). It's full of alleyways, cobbled streets and great views of the Ocean. We're loading ...
Japanese tourists on the island of Zanzibar
... tourists and went on a one day trip to Zanzibar. We planned on going to the beach and doing some sightseeing in the capital, Zanzibar Town. Hanne’s friend, Maria or Anna-Maria or Anne-Marie, told us that that is 'alt for ambitiøs’ (way too ...
Kjer sonce zahaja najlepse :-)
Koncno sva prispela po 32 urah poti na tanzanijski otok Zanzibar. Zdravje me je mocno nacelo,vendar se bom poskusala sama pozdravit. Antibiotik ne prime. Izpraznila Dubajsko letalisko lekarno. Tukaj na Zanzibarju je cudovito in ljudje so zelo prijazni. ...
Crazy for Cairo (or, how can I take your money?)
... us feel welcome (the food was pretty good and we were filled up for only 30 lbs (about $7) -definitely in budget. After Tanzania, we were expecting to be overwhelmed by street touts - it seems to be mentioned as a negative by many people visiting ...
Made of stone, tastes like heaven
... . One of the best things was the juice, to which our host proclaimed he is well known for not only in stone town but the whole of Zanzibar. We guessed it contained Sugar cane, ginger, lime and perhaps even Avocado? (avocado is called a "butter pear" and ...
Stone Town
We arrived on Zanzibar and after finding out that we needed to get our passports stamped again for entry into Tanzania found a taxi driver to take us to a hotel. The driver took us to another hotel which he said was better. This is a usual ploy but we ...
White sand, blue sky, no truck - must be Zanzibar
... mainland and back to truck life. Right now it feels like going back to work but we mustn't complain!!!! I'm not sure how expensive Zanzibar would be for a two week holiday but it would come highly recommended by us. We stayed in a basic room for $25 ...
Hurray! Zanzibar time!
... vendors set up selling a ton of different local food that they cook in front of you -- any type of fish/seafood kababs, Zanzibar pizzas (like crepes), local veggies with spices, sugarcane juice, and on and on. It’s excellent people watching in ...
Hakuna Matata
... eruit zou zien. Na een uurtje kwam het eiland in zicht, het bleek toch groter dan verwacht. De aanblik op Stone Town (Zanzibar's grootste plaats) was prachtig. Grote koloniale gebouwen, dicht op elkaar gepakt aan de helderblauwe zee. Het is echt een ...
Spices don't come in packets but are grown
Good bye wild animals on the mainland. Off to the Spice Island of Zanzibar. Some of the group, especially those from the northern hemisphere, are really looking forward to the R&R by the northern coast's sandy beaches. Yes, so am I but it is being ...
Post Trip Info
... out quite quickly on the day (so I hear). And pack your passport, you need it for getting in and out of Zanzibar. Though Zanzibar is a part of Tanzania (in fact it is the "zan" in TanZANia), it is a security precaution to ensure no one slips in from the ...
Zanzibar
... trips, when you need to take a few days and basically do nothing. After the craziness of the 3 weeks of overland travel, Zanzibar served as a nice, relaxing spot to exercise our true laziness. As the original spice island, it sits off the coast of ...
Tanzaniza/zanzibar
i went down to the harbour in mombassa but there wass no boats coming in the next few days, so i unfortunalty had to got by regular road and boarder crossing! i got to the boarder, and i was literally the only white person crossing, the official came out ...
King for a day at them spice tour
... as I would've loved to stay in paradise and sip cocktails on the beach, we only had so much time in Zanzibar. And with it all being spent in Stone Town, there was no more beach time and nothing but excruciating heat to deal with. The last night we were ...
stone town
So I've left kenya and travelled down by bus to dar es salam, i tried for the dhow captain down at the old town in mombassa direct to zanzibar, but there was none arriving for a week. so i had to get a bus, pay 100 dollars (for irish people, 50 for all ...
Stonetown (Zanzibar)
... was tot 1964 een zelfstandige staat met nauwe banden met Oman. Vooraf hadden de dames op drie verschillende plaatsen op Zanzibar overnachtingen geregeld. In Stonetown, de hoofdstad, sliepen ze in een guesthouse; helaas deed de airco het niet en de ...
The most enjoyable you can have in 60 minutes
... places Rachel had made a reservation for the three nights we would be staying on the island. But the thing about Zanzibar, and really Tanzania in general, is that every hotel is like the rental car company from Seinfeld -- they can take the reservations, ...
Back To Stonetown
... to our motel about 9:30, expecting to be told that we were too early for our room, but the manager of the Pearl of Zanzibar couldn't have been more helpful or welcoming. We were shown to our room, given maps and information, got a complementary drink, and ...
To The Doctors
... get funds before they would see her - at a tourist rate I'm sure. Anyway, they started her on a drip while I had some dinner down town, but then I had to make a third trip down town to the ATM to get more funds for the medicines that they administered. We ...