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Published: January 12th 2024
Last night, instead of bird song to lull me to sleep, it was voices and clatter in the narrow street below, coming through the slatted windows. Did not keep me from going to sleep immediately.
Our walking tour of Stone Town started at the hotel’s door, a few steps from the Old Fort . Taib related its history: the Omanis had already established a dynamic spice trade in Zanzibar by 1503 when Vasc...
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Isabel Gibson
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All I knew of Stone Town was from a historical romance about Zanzibar and the slave trade, so it's good to have another view of it. It's hard to imagine an architecture inspired by the original need to protect against elephant attacks! (It's like realizing that castle moats had an actual defensive purpose. D'oh! I don't spend much of my life energy preparing against an attack.) Except for the lack of Spanish, I could mistake many of your street photos for scenes in Guatemala or Quito - it's interesting to see how the North and the South, broadly speaking, have broad similarities.