Island View Hotel Zanzibar

... ice cream with ginger sauce at Monsoon Restaurant while listening to live "taarab" music - a zither player, a guitar player, a drummer and a fiddler. This reminds me that on my first evening in Stone Town I had dinner in complete darkness (the electricity failed) at "Kidude", a great place next to 236 Hurumzi (the coolest hotel in Zanzibar - formerly Emerson & Green's) where I met a folk musician called Chris Smith (from ...

... Park couple from the lodge safari trip, Dennis and Carol, whom Rose knows from volunteering at the Festival of Trees and at aerobics at Millenium Place in Sherwood Park. They have choice seats at the upstairs outdoor patio, right along the outside rail. Another Safari beer and a glass of wine later, we are ready for the sunset. But today it is overcast to catch the golden, then orange, then pink, then red hues of the setting sun. We are tired by ...

... the Scottish one &#8211; isn&#8217;t she great? Did you see her documentary? Amazing&#8230; look at her go, curious as ever; game to try whatever it is she hasn&#8217;t tried before. Oh, there are the Scandinavian girls, hi guys! Oh, of course I remember you! Roger, isn&#8217;t it? I meet you here two nights ago. Hey, Kwame, do you know where Pedro and all said they would be tonight?<br><br> &#8220;Zanzibar pizza!&#8221; cries out another vendor. We stop to ...

... performance of their talents. Somehow I lasted until after 5:00 AM, got a few hours of sleep, then spent the following day reading, sleeping, and listening to music in the shade (I have horrible tan lines right now). I just got back into Stone Town and will probably spend a couple more days here then take the ferry back to Dar and look into getting a bus ticket into Malawi, possibly the final country on this trip :( peace, Jen

... food on African soil. Many of these fears and cautions are of grave importance and I have taken every precaution possible in order to avoid Malaria, gastrointestinal malfunctions, fungal infections, bacterial colonization of my insides, high altitude sickness, headaches, blisters, burns and rashes. My first aid kit takes up half my day pack and I am pretty sure I have an ongoing expense account with Shopper's Drug Mart on account of my frequent spending ...

... the truck suddenly ran to the back to question us was so staged, and the really interesting part was that the truck was full of locals, none of whom bothered to tell us that something was up. They surely could have helped us with things like, "You don't pay now, pay later." and "That man doesn't work for the daladala, don't give him your money!" "You are paying too much fare!" Locals have helped us in these ways before in other countries, but these people all sat still in ...

... case i found out i was being ripped off! but i was never going ot go back. this, incidently was the last border crossing i paid for all the way down the west coast, as malawi was free, botzwana was free, and the safari company paid for my entry to zimbabwe cos of a mix up, then south africa was free.<br><br>so i continued on my buis down to dar es salaam, and stayed there fgor one night, then went and got a ferry to zanizbar the next day.<br>

... 40 illnesses, to be precise, which is why it's also called a 40 tree. I would not rely on these trees if you're a foreigner, however, unless you're living in the area a long time. Of course at the end of our spice adventure we had the opportunity to purchase spices. I found this opportunity irresistible, but fortunately for Travis the packets were both small and inexpensive. After seeing loads of spices we sat down to taste a variety of fruits ...

... some of my stuff over but by the time I got back to the hotel for the second round, it was raining so hard that I decided to take a taxi. If I would have known that I was going to have to take a taxi anyway, I could have done it all on one trip. I spent most of the day at the new hotel just hanging around in my room reading, having a nap and such because I was not feeling so well. I had a head ache and was just generally feeling "off" and down. 17 June Started the day ...

... beach, predominantly seaweed farming and fishing by the villagers. Seaweed is one of Zanzibar's biggest foreign-exchange earners these days. 10,000 tons are exported annually the Far East. Seaweed cultivation was introduced to this part of the island almost 20 years ago as an income-generating project for local women. It has given them a considerable measure of independence in what is still a very male-dominated society. The seaweed is 'planted' by tying ...