Published: February 24th 2012February 24th 2012
This morning we transferred from Stone Town to Kendwa, which is a small town on the north coast of Zanzibar. Our hotel is right on the blindingly white beach, and although it's a budget hotel, it's still pure indulgence. Hammocks, exotic cocktails (with a daily happy hour lasting for three hours) and massages on the beach. I don't think it could be any more perfect.
I won't waste anyone's time by describing the minutiae of the two days we spent at Kendwa, because there's really nothing I can say other than I spent both days swimming, sunbathing and sinking cocktails. And for the first time since the tour started, I had time to myself, time to think. Time to really look at the world around me. Sometimes I'm very conscious of the constraints that exist when travelling in a group like this, of the fact that there isn't always enough time or space to take both mental and physical photos, so one has to be sacrificed for the other. I instinctively reach for my camera the moment I see something worth taking a picture of, but it's a habit that I'm trying to break. I want to frame these moments, and the feelings I have, in my mind before capturing them in pixels.
Standing on the beach with the waves around my feet, staring off at the sun resting on the far horizon, I thought about all the things that I've not had time to think about. I savoured the moment. I relived the experiences I've had since leaving England, what now seems so long ago. I allowed myself to miss my family and my friends. It felt good. It felt liberating. I think that coming to Zanzibar was something that I needed on a personal level. I needed the time to be at peace with myself and the world around me, and I got that.
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I'm a 20-something, stuck in a rut, small town girl who has been afflicted with something that keeps me awake at night and makes it difficult to focus on the mundane, and which occasionally sees me breaking into a silly smile at inappropriate moments as I imagine myself stepping out of my comfortably routine life and into a world where I can find who I really am through new experiences and memories to last a lifetime. I believe they call it wanderlust.
My travels will begin in January 2012, when I set off for Africa with a Lonely Planet guidebook as my sole companion. I don't claim to be a ... full info
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hey hunni im glad you have found a little oasis on you tour! it looks wonderful and i so wish we were there together but it sounds the perfect thing for you, to have time to think! miss you so much and i cant wait to to talk to you again im hoping it will be soon!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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