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Zanzibar Town
Travel Blogs from Zanzibar Town, Tanzania
Last day of diving
Our last day of diving. Boo hoo for sure. At least we got in 3 days and got to do some unexpected touring. So back to the dive shop after breakfast and gather up our gear and head back out to the boat. There is a Danish couple ...
A Spicy Taste of Zanzibar
Short ferry from campsite to mainland. Drive to another port. Long ferry to Stone Town, Zanzibar. Zanzibar is so different to anywhere we have seen yet. There is a big Indian/ Arabic influence on all the buildings, lots of mosques, and lots of ...
Dessert First!
... , a few of which we’d never had the pleasure of tasting before…..…jack fruit, passion fruit, Zanzibar apples, and of course, some of those delicious standard favorites: mango, pineapple and coconut…..mmmm-mmmmmm-good!! ...
The dreadful slavery past
The old Slave Market. Here in this square, the statue group, which shows slaves in chains, is a sober reminder of Zanzibar's unsavoury past as a slave trading post. Unlike West Africa, where Europeans were heavily involved, East African slave-trading was ...
From Snow and Ice to Beach Paradise!
... any attempt to look cool and collected was scuppered by a mixture of sweat, sun cream and insect repellent – lovely! Zanzibar is now part of Tanzania but used to be ruled by Oman and the Arab influence is visible in a lot of the architecture. The ...
In the birthplace of Mankind and... Queen
... at a map of east Africa and follow the string of lakes (including Vistoria) that follow along the fault lines through Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique, they're some of the deepest lakes in the world. Even though a few of them are ...
Stone Town labyrinth and doors
We spent 4 days exploring Stone Town. A sensory orgasm throwing ourselves in one end, getting lost and finding our way out the other side of town. The carved doors are truly ...
Spice up your life
... say! The remainder of the tour was a little mickey mouse, but I did play some Bao (a Swahili board game I purchased in Stone Town) with the tour guide. I have to play the simple version, twos, as I can't understand the explanation of six and twos well ...
Zanzibar & Dar Es Salaam
... the left side of the plane which allows us to see the top of Kili one more time from the window… Arriving in Zanzibar town, we take a daladala, cheap public minibus and go to a fun backpackers place north of the island called Kendwa Rocks. Now time ...
Stone Town's House of Wonders & More
... to the hotel. The hawkers were getting weird. Hoards of cats descended on the garbage cans....but they looked pretty healthy. Back at the hotel, I wrote out my Tanzania postcards for mailing from Zanzibar and now I was ready to sleep. ...
Zanzibar - Tropical Island Paradise....
... side for our liking…!) We've left the truck back in Dar Es Salaam and have caught the ferry over to the island of Zanzibar for a long weekend. We did a spice tour (Fact of the Day: Pineapples grow out of the ground like spikey little cabbages ...
In which I see Stone Town
... to the airport. Bought some Africa t-shirts $20 US each, very happy with them. Flight with Kenya Airways to Zanzibar was uneventful. Arrived in Zanzibar, absolutely third-rate airport. $50 US for a visa each (some Irish ...
It's good to be back
... Matthias already had plans for the evening, and after checking the action at Mecury’s, named after Freddy because he was from Zanzibar, (and before anyone comments it’s not a gay bar) which was dead, I headed back to the isolation of my hotel ...
Football, football, football
... , Zambia are East Africa's last representatives - but their (admittedly surprising) progress doesn’t seem to have Zanzibar excited, even though Zambia is the nearest next country. Football is very important here, and local television sets seem to ...
Mixed Influences in a Town Built of Stone
The plane landed from Nairobi about 830pm in Stone Town, Zanzibar. Walking across the tarmac to the tin airport was humid and a bit surreal to think that I'd made it to this exotic Tanzanian island, a place that a few years ago I recall google mapping to ...
DAY TRIP BY FERRY TO ZANZIBAR
... ) and Pemba. Most of the tourists stick to Zanzibar island in their visit. Zanzibaris are mostly occupied in farming and fishing. Main exports include clove and coconut products. The main concentration is at the capital- Zanzibar town in the west coast. ...
First day
... gaat vanaf de Victoria falls de andere kant op naar Jo' burg. Sommigen stoppen in Livingstone en de eersten stoppen al op Zanzibar (maar die zijn ook al in Uganda/Nairobi begonnen). We zijn met een aantal wezen lunchen in Stone Town en hebben daarna het ...
Zanzibar
... while we wait for the passports to be sorted. Borders always take a while, this takes longer than usual, I think because Zanzibar is at odds with Tanzania and they want to be their own country, so they sometimes charge extra for entry even though we've ...
eggs and chips
was going to do a dolphin tour today but no one else signed up so I decided to put it off for another day in hopes of some more people doing it also. It would be cool to do it alone and see the dolphins alone and stuff but there is just so much ...
Karibu in Tanzania!
... here very long, in fact not even 24 hours - we met Alex the next morning and set off to get a ferry to spice island, Zanzibar! Figured there was no point wasting time in a smelly city when you can instead explore this amazing little island. We are going ...
Hakuna Matata on our last day
... , he kind of screeched through the call and faded away totally at the end. We had arranged with Unique Zanzibar to do a Stone Town tour and a Spice Tour. Unique Zanzibar arrives and we are escorted back the way we originally came, through ...
Zanzibar and the famous night market
... 3800TSH each. (1 USD = 1450-1500TSH) Then we went back to our hotel for a briefing of our whole stay in Zanzibar and then we were off into town with Daniel our guide. Stone Town was not what I expected. I had heard it was very commercialised ...
Stone Town
23 Juli: Am Morgen haben wir die Faehre nach Sansibar genommen. Die naechste Woche wird der Relaxpart der Reise. Stone Town(die einzige grosse Stadt) ist total schoen und erinnert mit den kleinen verwinkelten Gassen an Venedig. Am Abend waren wir auf ...
In which I devour Jack Aubrey
... in their swimwear. They are used to cooler weather, I suppose. Jane and I had discussed getting a taxi back to Stone Town for some shopping but lost impetus. So dinner time found us still pretty much in the same frame of mind we'd been ...
There isn't enough aloe in Africa to fix this burn
... you are and what you're doing. It was pretty overwhelming. But we got used to it. Stone Town, which is in Zanzibar Town, which is where we took the ferry into is soooo beautiful. The island is mostly Muslim with some East Indian influence as well and the ...
MY FRIEND
... downpour so I spent the day in a coffee bar reading and drinking coffee. The last day there I went on a spice tour, after all Zanzibar is the spice capital of the world, there was a spice farm outside the city that grows 40 different types of spices. I ...