Seaweed Farming

As the tide drops, the lagoon off Matemwe gives up rows and rows of seaweed supports - the string tied between the posts provides an anchor on which clumps of brown seaweed grow, waiting to be harvested by the local villages.

Christmas On The Coast

December 25th 2006
Those Bounty Moments It's one of those moments you can't resist - the phone rings (turned on just to check for messages) and you can't help, looking out over the icing sugar sand into the turquoise lagoon, past the coconut palms and over the dancing beach crabs, shouting into the mouthpiece, in true Trigger Happy TV style - "Hello! I'm on a paradise beach in Zanzibar. It's all a bit shit really. T ... read more

Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar » Matemwe

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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