Zanzibar Beach Hotel And Resort Matemwe

... by the hotel. The vessel itself is shaped like an outrigger with a mast, and everything about it looks home made, including the hand-sewn sail. It requires two people to operate it, one to steer and control the sail and the other to balance and stabilze the craft so it doesn't tip over. The speed of the boat is amazingly fast and thrilling.<br><br>On Tuesday we leave the hotel after breakfast and go on a ...

... I commissioned a piece in the local style called Tinga Tinga and are really happy with how it turned out.  <br><br>When we left the island we headed into Stone Town where we said good bye to ten of the people who had been traveling with us and we had a new group of ten join.  Three of them are from Canada, three are from Ireland and two are from Australia.  All of them had been traveling various parts of ...

... well. Then it was up reeeeeally early the next morning for a very long drive to Dar Es Salaam, where we stayed really briefly right on a really nice beach. We should have a bit more time there after Zanzibar. As you've probably noticed, this second half of the tour (from Livingstone) has been a ton of driving. Luckily, our longest days are behind us now, and we'll be slowing down the pace a little bit for the rest of the tour (aside from one more long day). We took the ferry over to ...

... I got off the dala dala I needed to find the ferry terminal but wasn't sure exactly where it was. I asked the dala dala driver and he told me to get back in, that he would take me there. Of course, this seemed super fishy but there were lots of police officers around so I figured it would be ok. He drove me part of the way there, then pointed me int he right direction. When I got out, a guy immediately came up to me to try to sell me a ticket for the ferry. I tried ...

... be so entertaining! The next day I finished my book and needed to move around for a bit so I decided to walk across the lagoon and check out the reef about a half kilometer out. For most of this area there is a shallow lagoon close to shore that in low tide is only 3 feet deep. Seaweed harvesters and fisherman from the village come here during low tide to work and the tourists frolic in the warm water. I am sure at one time my mother told me not to ...

... back tomorrow. My little hut is a stone throw from the beach. In the excitement, I completely forgot to put sunscreen on. The Equatorial sun is particularly ******* white skin and in half and hour I was really feeling the burn! I spent a while wandering the beach, taking photos, reading my book. The beach here is very white, and the water is a light green/ blue colour. It is quite shallow for about a half kilometer where I walked out and water was no ...

... to see all the spices being grown and taste them all, before having a local lunch which included many of the spices we had seen growing. On the way back to Old Stone Town we had the chance to stop off and see a beautiful white sand beach and take a refreshing swim, and also to see some caves where the Zanzibar Sultan used to hide his slaves after slavery was officially abolished over 100 years ago. That afternoon we wandered ...

... and then he pulled out a needle, and said "look I'm going to stick myself first and then I am going to stick you with AIDs if you don't give me money". Francis screamed, Matt yelled, and we both ran away from him. Fortunately there were 6 Muslim men sitting nearby. When they saw Francis scream and run, they asked if she was ok, and once we explained what the guy said, they told us which way to go (1 guy walked with us for a bit), and made sure the guy ...

... or "ticks") who can't let me pass without offering me a taxi or a chance to buy something from their shops. Most of the time I ignore them but that gets them worked up. One guy told me "So, you come all the way here but you don't want to talk to the people." I didn't say anything, but what I should have said was "I don't mind talking to 'the people'. It's the ticks that I don't want to talk to." Another guy said "So, you must be dumb since you can't talk.", a clever ...