Zanzibar Resorts - Reviews and Rates

I wrote up an entire blog and then the internet deleted it. So now i only have 3 minutes left. More later!

So we're chilling on the beaches of Zanzibar at the moment and the place is just beautiful. We had a few more days of long driving to get to Dar es Salaam, including a stop-over in a gorgeous little camp site where some of us upgraded into "Martha Stewart" cottages as M called them. Our own fireplace and everything! Dar es Salaam is a huge busy ...

We were planning to go on to Pemba Island today, but in this country of 3 ferries a week this was not going to work, so maybe next time??
Instead we are heading back to Dar Es Salaam tomorrow, and will explore some of the northern part of Tanzania for a few days. I have a flight booked for Friday to Lusaka, to connect with my flight to UK on ...

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...

Good fortune was smiling down on me that day in Moshi at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro. In the late afternoon most of the cloud cover was burned away by the sun and 'Kili' showed her snow capped peak popping out from lower clouds at her base. I felt so blessed because there were clouds just above and just below the peak. I sat on the rooftop of ...

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...

OK, so our updates have been a bit spotty as of late, so here is an attempt to bring things up to date... Our intended few days at Nkhata Bay in Malawi turned into nearly 3 weeks. We were not alone in being captivated with this jewel on the shores of Lake Malawi. We met other travellers who haven't left after 10 years of being there. The pace of...