Tembo Hotel Stone Town

The crew heads off on their ferry and flights at 4 AM and we tag a ride with them into town and check into the Tembo House. After our rather minimal, backpacker, beach bum accomodations, we greatly enjoy this change for a night. The hotel used to be the ...

... cast their shadows over the barbeque displays. The barbeque occurs each night and brings together all the inhabitants of Stone Town - tourists from all over the world sit between school girls still clutching books, heavily dressed Muslim women carefully ...

... Once settled, our plan was to meander the zigzag maze of alleys from the market through the heart of town, eventually making it back to the Tembo on the waterfront.  Darajani was the local fresh market, full of goods that spanned ...

... reason. Maybe because of some of the contrasting colors of white beaches and stone buildings and the gorgeous sunsets.  Stone Town (Zanzibar City) is made up of  narrow alleyways and coral stone buildings with fabulous old architecture.  ...

... we were staying at the Shooting Star Lodge in Kiwengwa we did the sunrise excursion with aquasunsail. The cruise started in Stone Town at 7.00am. which was perfect to catch the sunrise. The sun was just emerging when we go to town. It was ...