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The other foreigners we travelled with while we got our bearings in Dar Es Salaam  
   

The other foreigners we travelled with while we got our bearings in Dar Es Salaam

Barefoot, hounded and dumbfounded in Zanzibar

November 6th 2006
PAJE, ZANZIBAR Waking up, remembering where I was before I opened my eyes..............wow. Zanzibar. Remembering the airport with the touts outside, the one hour taxi ride through the backroads of Zanzibar, the muslim men all wearing their islamic prayer caps and pilgrimage robes, the women covered from head to toe with just their eyes peering out, the donkey's pulling their carts as a way of ... read more
Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar

Tanzanian Flag Shortly after independence, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form the nation of Tanzania in 1964. One-party rule came to an end in 1995 with the first democratic elections held in the country since the 1970s. Zanzibar's semi-autonomous status and po... ... read more
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