Written by nofootprint on November 12, 2009
- Spice TourThis was wonderful tour and a great value at 13.00 per person. We were picked up at 9:00AM and an hour later with the bus crammed to capacity we were on our way. There...
Written by nofootprint on November 11, 2009
- We are ready now for the bustle of Stone Town . The 4 nights on the beach gave us the rest we needed but its time to start exploring. The hour or so drive was...
Written by nofootprint on October 15, 2009
- We flew Precision Air to Zanzibar from Kilimanjaro Airport. Despite our apprehension our plane left on time! We had read some horror stories of lengthy delays and numerous cancellations but we have only good things...
Written by Safiri on October 12, 2004
- Zanzibar is the world's main supplier of cloves, a little nail-shaped spice that gets embedded into hams, or stuck into oranges to be hung on Christmas trees. Cloves are grown for export on Zanzibar, but...
Written by Marianne on February 28, 2004
- Stone Town was built by Indian and Arab traders in the 18th and 19th centuries. It reminded me very much of an Arab Medina with its warren of alleyways, its minarets, mansions, latticed balconies and...
Written by Marianne on February 1, 2004
- There is a plea to tourists on the notice board: "Please sign the petition for a better surfaced road to Nungwi". And indeed the road is bad. The irony is that there used to be...
Written by greghuntoon on September 14, 2006
- Every time I have left the confines of my own culture and stepped into another, I've been greeted by culture shock in the wake of a sickness or injury. When I stayed out on the...
Written by greghuntoon on September 14, 2006
- Man, is my Kiswahili bad; or, as Marshed told the guy behind the counter at the Bureau de Exchange today, "anaweza kusema Kiswahili kizuri, lakini hawezi kusikiliza chochote," which basically means "he can speak Swahili...
Written by greghuntoon on September 14, 2006
- It worked. I surprised the hell out of my family, and then they returned the favour by smashing all ideas I had of having functional Kiswahili. It was so commonplace to walk back through the...
Written by greghuntoon on September 14, 2006
- It's a late Tuesday night for me, as I'm trying to make some preparations for my holiday (leaving for Toronto a week from tomorrow, and then hop on a plane on the 4th of July...
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