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Day42-45: Mbuyuni Beach Village in Jambiani
Our Bungalow: stepping out of the car here we could feel the heat - wow!! then the guy super relaxed showed us to our bungalow.... can it be better: view on the pool and ocean, a large room and even larger room. Ok so I was not quite sure why we had a large plastic bowl in the shower... but then we discovered our next door neighbors used it on the patio, to wash of the sand... great idea. The Patio was also ...
Sex tourism … and even more Busara
Sex tourism is an interesting phenomenon these days in
developing parts of the world.
Mostly sex-tourism is of course associated with seedy men who
seek out poor countries for otherwise illegal sex, but that is by no means the whole
story. Often, these days, it's a matter
of solo middle-aged European men and women finding 'escorts’.
There are plenty of young guys here ready to
please such ladies, ...
Beach Holiday
... even more serene out there, and as it was a Monday morning, we took a moment to appreciate how far removed we were from what a Monday could entail on a frosty morning back home! As well as all of the snorkelling and swimming, the other highlight of our Blue Safari was the fresh fish that was served up at lunch...mounds of prawns, squid, octopus and baracuda, all barbequed and marinaded in famous Zanzibar spices. (Although for fear of sinking, this meant that swimming was off limits ...
Hakuna matata
... diving – organized by Pongwe through One Ocean Dive Centre, based just up the coast at Blue Bay. We went and did our refresher there (great – they came and picked up up etc) but when we went to actually dive, we had to travel in a minibus for over an hour on really, really bad roads. Apparently One Ocean usually have a boat that goes straight from Blue Bay but it was out of action. The diving was good but not worth the journey so check the boat’s ...
Matemwe Beach
... So unspoilt. I went straight into the water (and in my haste I lost my sunglasses!)
Oh well, it was only the Armani’s from Cairo! I was on the beach for hours and I made some friends Ali (10) Musa (11) and Ahmed (20). We spoke in Swahili, English, Spanish, French and even Italian. The hours passed quickly. Eventually, it was time to return to Stonetown but what a magical day!
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