Zanzibar Archipelago Hotels - Reviews and Rates

I had read on the internet that there was a traditional old fishing village not that far from where we were staying that you can walk to along the beach - at low tide; at high tide you get cut off by the sea. After breakfast we find out what times the tides are today and are told that we can leave now as the tide is out and that...

With reluctance, we left the Blue Oyster Hotel to wait two hours for a daladala, all the while swarmed by an ever-changing crowd of schoolchildren. We eventually gave up and took a comfortable taxi back to Stone Town. The driver stopped a few times on his way, once to pick up his father, who invited us to his home for supper. We reluctantly and ...

Hello again! I've been in this internet cafe for just over the half hour so have another 28 minutes to take up (it's taken this long to load most of the web pages and find out how poorly the Magpies have been performing over the last week), so here's an update on the epic adventure so far! I left you on the edge of your seats after arriving in S...

Hello hello! Or should I say "Jambo" to all you foreigners out there. Good news is, we've arrived. The even better news is it's everything we hoped it could be! The title of this entry refers pretty much exclusively to the journey here which, in case you didn't know, involved a stopover in Doha (Qatar) for 9 hours. Fortunately the powers that be...

He Said: We started out a few days ago with a short flight south from Mombasa to the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. The island was a major hub for the Indian Ocean trade in gold, ivory, spices, and other goods as early as the 1300's. In the darkest part of its history, it was a major port to sell slaves to Arabia and Persia in the mid-1800's. The...

Before heading to the north of the island to the beach, most of the group went on a Spice tour that included a bit of Stone Town as well. Our guide was an eccentric character who called himself Ali T and modelled all his English speech on Ali G! He kew his stuff thoug, even though he was comical to listen to! In Stone Town the most poignant plac...