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Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar » Zanzibar City September 30th 2011

Turquoise waters and fine white sand, historical buildings and narrow alleyways, busy markets and friendly people, this is the colorful spice islands. This is Zanzibar. On arriving in Stone Town you are met with a maze of winding alleyways and narrow streets, full of color and laughter. As you pass ancient buildings its easy to imagine a time of pirates and traders. A time when the Spice Islands were the ancient trading route to the world. A time when Royal Britannia ruled the seas. Being welcomed into the slums by the local Muslims and seeing how they live with religious dedication an honesty is an eye opening experience. Being woken up at 5am with a call to prayer an unwanted reminder to explore this colorful and fascinating island. As you weave in and out of the ... read more
Kendwa Beach
Kendwa Rocks
My Fire Spinning Show

Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar » Nungwi September 29th 2011

Hey Guys, It’s hard to believe it has already being a month of me traveling. Tonight is my last night in Tanzania, very bitter sweet after the past month. I have being up to quite a lot since my last Blog, here goes the update. I have ventured into Stone town two more times since I last blogged. Stone town is amazing and truthfully a lot more urban compared to the rest of Zanzibar, nice to eat different foods once in awhile. One of the days we went on a spice tour, which is around 20km away from town. How you get to these tours is basically just by asking a taxi driver to take you. Almost every cabbie has some kind of family that works for or lives on a spice farm, so they take ... read more
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Unfufuma Cave
Unfufuma Cave

Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar September 24th 2011

Day 12 - On our final day we were collected from Kasha by an amazing guide who introduced himself as Morgan Freeman - he actually did look and sound just like him hehe! He drove us to Stone Town telling us all about the history of Zanzibar on the way, it was really nice hearing such local knowledge and really funny when he kept slamming on his breaks to buy coconuts from the little stalls on the side of the road as he could sell them on for double the price in town - a real Del Boy character! He arranged for one of his friends in town to meet us at the hotel to take us on a walking tour of Stone Town. This was amazing although possibly not the best idea to take Mr ... read more
Learning lots about stone town
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Anton quickly found the cannons!

Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar September 21st 2011

Day 9 - Our flight from Sand Rivers into Dar Es Salam was great and we literally got off the plan at Dar for 5 minutes while they refueled before getting back on to go to Zanzibar. We definitely have a fondness for the little departures lounge now after being in and out of it so many times - it's so relazed with no tickets, you just tell them where you're headed and off you go! The views from the plane over the Ocean were amazing and we arrived in Zanzibar in just 20 minutes - oh to own a private jet for all the commuting back home. We were a bit concerned at firs that noone was at Zanaibar to meet us for our transfer but after about 10 minutes a guy came rushing over ... read more
Infinity Pool
Enjoying a kili
Watching the dows

Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar » Nungwi September 13th 2011

Mambo Everyone! Hello everyone, Hope you guys are doing well back home. This will be my first Blog entry from my travels on my Around the World trip! So far I have taken 5 flights, a few trains, dala dala’s and taxi’s to get to where I am going. I am now writing from the island of Zanzibar in Tanzania. I have already completed one of my stops on my around the world trip, that stop was England. I did just a quick stop for a few days in London, England. I was very lucky to meet up with my friend Natalie and made a new friend with Jo. Nat and I walked alllll over Downtown London and saw all of the main sights. It was pretty good weather for 2 of the days the third ... read more
Big Ben- London
Olympic countdown
Klindi-Kendwa

Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar August 21st 2011

Accommodation: Diamonds Dream of Zanzibar Flew from Cayman via Dar Es Salem to Zanzibar. It was a good place to chill out for a day or two to get our bodies on African time. Unbeknown to us, Zanzibar is a very popular place for Italian’s to vacation. With direct flights from Rome and Milan coupled with the fact that several hotels only accept Italian guests. The short end of the story is that Zanzibar has a nice beach and at low tide allows one to walk out a mile or two to the reef. The low tide allows the seaweed harvesters to collect the seaweed – I meet a local guy from the village beside the resort and spent a couple of hours assisting with the harvesting of seaweed. As day turns to night, the masi ... read more
Local Art
Good day for a Sail
Street Art

Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar » Zanzibar City July 29th 2011

Ok, so after an epic safari, headed back to the villages for 10 days ... it was a week of hard work, we managed to fit in lots of teachings to schools, community groups etc and have organised our big SIC testing day for next Wednesday, advertising it as SIRI, BURE HARAKA....fast free and confidential! Hopefully there will be a record turn out ... so teachings went really well, teaching reproductive health to 150 girls in a primary school classroom was certainly a challenge, 30 footballers the same day, some life skills and their goals and dreams, related to why its so important for them to stay healthy etc, we made a paper chain of all of them which they loved - im definately racking up my numbers of african gap yahhh photos hah surrounded by ... read more

Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar July 7th 2011

We started our adventure in Zanzibar with a little alternative tourism. We decided to catch two different ferries to the island, arriving an hour apart. The plan was to wander around Stone Town, the historic heart of Zanzibar, without a plan, to see how long it would take for the two of us to ‘find each other’. After four months of spending every day together, it was a solitary experience to walk around Zanzibar on our own with the constant anticipation of bumping into one another. By lunchtime we were reunited somewhere in the bowels of the labyrinth that is Stone Town. Zanzibar was the centre of both the spice and the slave trade in the 19th century and home to people of various cultures, including Moors, Arabs, Persians, Indians and Europeans, the combination of which ... read more
Forodhani markets
Kam's favourite place in Zanzibar
Barack

Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar June 28th 2011

Eigentlich hatte ich gar nicht vorgehabt, wieder nach Sansibar zu reisen, aber wir ändern unsere Pläne, nachdem das Festival of the Dhowcountries in dieser Woche stattfindet. Wie schon im Vorjahr wohnen wir im Hotel Kiponda, das eine nette Dachterrasse, ein gutes Frühstück und eine ideale Lage hat, um die Veranstaltungen im Fort und im „House of Wonders“ zu besuchen. Eigentlich ist das Festival hauptsächlich ein Filmfestival, das ZIFF (Zanzibar international Fimfestival). Es gibt auch andere Events und Konzerte, aber meist erst zu später Stunde. Die Filme sind hauptsächlich afrikanische Produktionen, manche in Kooperation mit anderen Ländern, und viele davon befassen sich mit der Situation von Behinderten und insbesondere auch Albinos in Afrika. Wir sehen uns einige an, manche davon sind wirklich empfehlenswert. Ganz besonders gefällt mir ein Film aus Simbabwe, über eine Band von Behinde... read more
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Nungwi_1
Nungwi_Massai

Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar June 20th 2011

After not showering for a week (thank you wet wipes) and dealing with hyenas at night we were looking for a change of pace and headed off to Zanzibar… which is yang to a safari’s ying I guess. We spent our time in Zanzibar between Stonetown, Nungwi and Kendwa… each a little different, but great in their own right. Stonetown The city has been around for hundreds of years and is a mix of Muslim, Arab, Asian and (of course) African influences… one of the ports draws is just walking the old towns narrow alley ways and taking in all that is stonetown. I walk here and want to take pictures of everyone and everything around me as it is very picturesque… everything from the oversized doorways with ornate metal decorations, to the colorful clothing of ... read more
Local beach transport
The trademark
Alleys of stonetown




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