'Pole Pole' Part 3 - Zanzibar Rhapsody

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November 5th 2013

Published: November 17th 2013

Right, so where did I leave you last leave you? Ah yes, we’d just returned to Snake Camp on the outskirts of Arusha from the plains of the Serengeti in time for some dinner and a much needed shower, that Serengeti dust gets everywhere, my clothes were as orange as my hair. Saying goodbye to our guides from the Serengeti we met up with Henry, our truck driver for dinner and a beer or two, I passe... Read Full Entry

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Colourful scenes at the market

Make your own handbag

You just need to pick a skin from the choice at Stone Town market, treat it and then make it into the handbag of your dreams

Darajani Market

Spicy (and fishy and fruity and meaty etc) market

Fish wives

The atmosphere was rather cloying in here

Tee hee!

The Anglican Cathedral Church of Christ

Built on the site of the former slave market

Dr Livingstone I presume?

Made from wood of the tree planted on the spot where Livingstone's heart is buried in Africa

The Slave Memorial

Slave holding cells

They would keep 50 or so people in these tiny holding cells, must have been horrific, so count your blessings!

Many flavours of Zanzibar

Touring the spice plantations

Erm...

looks like a bread fruit, might be something else though.

Chanel? Max Factor?

No, it's the rather clever lipstick plant for all your make up needs. Pick it off the tree and stick your finger in and off you go

This season's colours

Our guide models the lipstick from the tree

Pineapple!

Fetch down my coconuts

Can you spot the guy climbing the tree?

Coconut chickens

Next stop McNuggets

Forodhani Food

The night food market in the Forodhani Gardens, Stone Town, I'd highly recommend the Zanzibar pizzas, very tasty.

Timber!

Mahogany trees in the Jozani Chwaka Bay National Park

Throw in a few palms

and you have a lovely tropical forest scence

Attention! Safari Ants crossing!

The remarkable Safari Ants crossing the path, look closely and you will see the soldiers with pinchers protecting the rest, how do they know what to do?

Ginger monkeys rock!

Red Colobus monkeys in Jozani. Also known as Kirk's Red Colobus, I do recall seeing Kirk's Dik Dik in the Serengeti, he had a lot of animals did our Kirk.

3rd December 2013

Kuan Yin
Karen Johnson

Stand on Zanzibar
I'm old enough to remember when Zanzibar and Tanganyika were separate countries. I always thought that Zanzibar sounded marvelously exotic, and I wanted to visit. Thanks for your blog - now I want to visit even more! PS> the comment title is the title of a book written by John Brunner in 1968.

4th December 2013

MaryK
Mary Kitchen

Thanks for your kind comment Karen, I might have to check out that book.

11th August 2014

Groovy Mel
non-member comment

Beach Holiday
Thank you for sharing about beach holiday.........its makes easy my journey.......

13th September 2014

Kat Chang
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Zanzibar - sounds brilliant!
I once read a book about Zanzibar and thought it might be the only place in Africa I would consider traveling to. Your blog really does make it sound like an interesting and wild place to visit. Thank you for the write up, I always enjoy reading them! Ps. How comes you have been away for a month? What's happened to work?

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