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Welcome to the Zanzibar tours website. We arrange all types of Tours to Zanzibar featuring visits to Stone Town and the romantic beaches of this tourist destination.
1ST OPTION: 7days tour: 1 Night Stonetown and 3 Nights Beach in Zanzibar and 2 nights Bagamoyo Beach
Day 1.Meet and great at Airport,transfer to Tembo Hotel or Similar for Dinner and overnight
Day 2.Breakfast,then a walking Stonetown Tour,after this drive to Beach Hotel for dinner and overnight at Arabian Nights Beach Hotel or Similar.
Day 3.Breakfast,beach leisure,dinner and overnight at Arabian Beach Hotel or Similar
Day 4.Breakfast,beach leisure,dinner and overnight Arabian Beach Hotel or Similar
Day 5.Breakfast,then take a morning ferry or flight to Dar,Dar City tour upon arrival,then proceed to Bagamoyo for Dinner and Overnight at Millenium Sea Breezes Resort or Similar
Day 6.Breakfast,then Bagamoyo tour,beach leisure,dinner and overnight at Millenium Sea Breezes Resort or Similar
Day 7.After breakfast,transfer to Airport for flight back Home.
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2nd OPTION : 4 days tour: 1 Night Stonetown and 3 Nights Beach
Day 1.Meet and great at Airport,transfer to Tembo Hotel or Similar for Dinner and overnight
Day 2. Enjoy your morning breakfast before being transferred for Stone town tour,enjoy the walking tour for 2- 3 hrs then proceed to La Gemma Dell`est or similar for overnight on All inclusive basis
Day 3. Enjoy leisure at the La Gemma Dell`est or Similar on All inclusive Basis
Day 4.Enjoy leisure at the La Gemma Dell`est or Similar on All inclusive Basis
Day 5. Take your breakfast then transfer to the airport for flight back home.
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3rd OPTION: 4 days tour: 1 Night Stonetown and 3 Nights Beach
Day 1.Meet and great at Airport,transfer to Tembo Hotel or Similar for Dinner and overnight
Day 2. Enjoy your morning breakfast before being transferred for Stone town tour, enjoy the walking tour for 2- 3 hrs then proceed to The Z Hotel or Similar for Dinner and overnight.
Day 3.Enjoy leisure at the The Z Hotel or Similar for dinner and overnight
Day 4. Enjoy leisure at the The Z Hotel or Similar for dinner and overnight
Day 5. Take your breakfast then transfer to the airport for flight back home.
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4th OPTION: ( 4 Days/3 Nights) – Stonetown only
Day 1.Meet and great at Airport,transfer to Tembo Hotel or Similar for Dinner and overnight
Day 2:Breakfast,then a Walking Guided Stonetown Tour,rest of the day at leisure.Overnight at Tembo Hotel or Similar for Dinner and overnight
Day 3:Breakfast,rest of the day at leisure.Overnight at Tembo Hotel or Similar for Dinner and overnight
Day 4:Breakfast.transfer to Airport for flight back Home.
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5th OPTION : 1 Night Stonetown 2 Night Beach Hotel
Day 1.Meet and great at Airport,transfer to Tembo Hotel or Similar for Dinner and overnight
Day 2:Breakfast,then a Walking Guided Stonetown Tour,rest of the day at leisure.Overnight at Kichanga Beach Lodge or Similar for Dinner and overnight
Day 3:Breakfast,rest of the day at leisure.Overnight at Kichanga Beach Lodge or Similar for Dinner and overnight
Day 4:Breakfast.transfer to Airport for flight back Home
PRISON ISLAND
A restful daytime in Zanzibar Channel of the Indian Ocean is attained when we visit the small isle off the Western Coast of Zanzibar. This half mean solar day conducted go gets as well as ends at your hotel. This historical Island was formerly owned by an Arab and used for the confinement of refractory slaves. It was bought by General Mathews and the penal complex (objective) which as well stands was built in 1893 and hence the name “PRISON ISLAND” One time it was infectors quarantine station for East African Territory. Today Prison Island is one of the Tourist Resort . There is new Constructing Hotel and also bar and restaurant which serves Tourist, At the Prison Island you will see GIANT TORTOISES, and be able to swim, sunbathe and snorkel.
Coconut Palms, Thatching, Baskets, Weaving, pottery, Grinding Millets, rice, Coconut Rope Making, Coconut Palm Climbing, Local Cuisine Cooking, Zanzibar Aroma and Incense, Construction of local Homes, Bread Making, Spices, Banana Plantations, Seasonal Fruits, Local Koran Schools, Local Traditional Music/Songs and Dancers. The four-hour guided tour begins and ends at your hotel where you will be driven to FUONI on outskirts of Zanzibar Town.
Here you will .be able to see while walking through the farm village and capitalizing on the village life of the locals who are always busy carrying on with their daily activities like: grinding millets with mortar pestles; thatching coconut palms; preparation of bread for evening meal – guests are welcome to taste -, we move further to see locals climbing Coconut Palm Tree guests to try it out; coconut products madafu milk; baskets; rope; poles coconut palm caps. Further a field cassava plantation and bananas with their various products can be seen and tasted cassava weaving of baskets, floor mats, brooms, food covers etc. Koran Schools will also be visited. We proceed to the last stop to be welcomed by drumbeats where gusts are requested to participate with refreshments of fruits of the season and mineral water.
SAFARI BLUE
“N othing short of AWESOME – a “must do” in Zanzibar ” Gavin S Africa
Safari Blue has been running great days out in Zanzibar since 1996. Safari Blue starts from Fumba village, south west of Stone Town. Fumba is the most convenient location for exploring the wildlife, isolated sandbanks and rugged island scenery of the Menai Bay Conservation Area
Safari Blue is a full day boat trip in traditional hand built sailing dhows finished to the very highest standards of comfort and safety. The day includes dolphin watching, guided snorkeling with top quality Cressi-sub equipment, ice cold sodas, mineral water and beer. Lunch is served at our desert island restaurant and includes a delicious Zanzibari seafood lunch with grilled fish and slipper lobster, gastronomic fruit tasting, coffee and Amarula liqueur. Take a swim through the mangrove lagoon forest, a sail in an ngalawa, climb an ancient baobab tree and then finish the day off by returning to Fumba by traditional sail.
DOLPHIN TOUR
This is Full Day Tour, the main Attraction being able to swim close to the dolphin, actually its swimming with the Dolphin. Being very social themselves, if you are luck you even get to play with them. Situated on the southern point of the island, Kizimkazi fishing village is home to several schools of bottle-nosed dolphins and Humpback dolphins, which are sighted following a short boat trip from the village.
Kizimkazi is also the site of a 12th century mosque, the earliest evidence of Islam in East Africa, and is thus worth a visit for both natural and cultural reasons. The trip includes transport from either Stone Town or Hotel in the East or North Coast, guide, boat, snorkeling equipment and lunch.
JOZANI FOREST
This guided tour of three hours will take you to Jozani natural forest (it is only a natural forest in Zanzibar); where is home for rare red colobus monkeys which are species rare in the World. The smaller trees and shrubs make several sub canopies under the highest canopy. You will walk through the nature trail of the forest, which is a habitat for many species of animals.
MANGAPWANI TOUR
Slave Chambers: Built around 1880 from the cave and connected to the seaside 2kms away, the area is surrounded by varieties of indigenous trees such as Breadfruit, Ramboutants and scent shrubs. It was an important transit point for the captured slaves to be sold to the outside world at the time of the abolishment of slavery in 1873. Between 1880-1905, the chamber was being used as a place of concealment of the human cargo pending their disposal. A utilized as the hideout by the Arabs for their human cargo ready for shipment. The four hour guided tour begins and ends at your hotel. Mangapwani (“Arab Shore”) lies in a district where many Arabs used to live. In the village there is a Police Station, also a large government “Bungalow” which was built by the Arabs who originally owned Prison Island. Newly opened Serena Restaurant is nearby the Slave Caves. Swimming, Sun bathing may be done widely.
SPICE TOUR ZANZIBAR
Tropical fruits, spices and other rare species of plants are among the different vegetation to be seen in this guided tour. It is not only a tour but a rare experience to prove out why Zanzibar is referred to as the “Spice Island”. This Three hours guided tour begins and end up at your hotel via Kidichi Village, to view the Persian Baths built in 1850 by Seyyid Said bin Sultan (first Sultan of Zanzibar) for his wife Princess Shehrzard (grand daughter of Fateh Ali Shah of Persia).
At Kizimbani Village you will visit Spice Farms to see smell and test varieties of Tropical fruits & Spices. Zanzibar offers many Fresh Spices including (cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, black peppers, roots gingers ,vanilla sticks, lemon grass , nutmeg and many others, Tropical Fruits like ,jack fruit, bread fruit, pineapples, bananas, coconut mangos ,malay apples ) and many others. Rare plants such as henna bush.Ylang lang (the perfume tree), anator (lipstick tree) are to be seen. Clients shall see the local peoples at their pulse and have opportunity to make good photographs.
STONE TOWN TOUR ZANZIBAR
The three – hours guided tour begins and end up at your hotel where you will walk/driven to the city market (opened 1904). Here you will be able to see and buy, tropical fruits and spices (if you wish). You will also feel the pulse of Zanzibar and hear different dialects being spoken by the people at the market. From there we proceed to the Anglican Church of Christ built by Bishop Steers in 1874 on the site of old slave market. You will see tiny and dingy room where slaves were kept (Slave Chambers) before reaching the auction table in the Old slave market. You will then be driven or walk (optional) to National Museum of Zanzibar (opened 1925) to see many interesting relics from the time of the Sultans and the early Explores. Then a drive along the beach road up to Forodhani Gardens where you will see the Old British Consulate (the house where the body of late Dr. Living stone was kept and later sent to Britain), the Arab Fort built (1700), the House of Wonders (built in 1883) National Museum of Zanzibar, High Court Building, Old German Consulate, Africa House – (former English Club) Tip Tip House, kelele Square, Old British Consulate, Orphanage Home, Old Fort, Forodhani Gardens, House of Wonders (Current National Museum), Sultan Palace (Palace Museum) former French Hotel in Zanzibar,Custom House, Old Dispensary, Old Harbor are among the topic of this guided tour in Zanzibar.
CHUMBE ISLAND CORAL PARK
The trip in a motorised boat will take you to the secluded island of Chumbe which manages nature a reserve, with forest and marine nature trails, one kilometre of totally protected and untouched reef, a historic lighthouse (built in 1904) and an old mosque. The biggest attractions of the island is the peaceful and natural environment. You will journey through the special nature trails passing a tunnel of fascinating indigenous undergrowth, listening to birds and small animals going about their uninterrupted business. More than 40 species of birds have been identified on the island, including the endangered Roseate Tern. Snorkelling in the Reef Sanctuary is amazing; an uninterrupted coral garden stretches right from the shallow beach to a drop-off to about 16 metres deep, teeming with thousands of colourful fish belonging to 370 families, which is among the highest diversity found anywhere along the East African Coast. Turtles and dolphins regularly visit the reef, and spiny lobsters peed out of their hostels confident that nobody will hunt for them, and you may even seen a huge grouper living only a few metres under the surface on the drop-off.
PRINCESS SALME SPICE TOUR
We start our tour at the birthplace of princess Salme; Mtoni Palace Ruins. Here we go on a detailed tour around the Persian baths, the main palace and its botanical gardens. From Princess Salme’s birthplace we enjoy a 20 minute boat ride to Bububu where we enjoy a traditional coffee ceremony with Kashata, Halua and dates on the terrace of a beautiful Omani house which once belonged to the nephew of Sultan Said. (Salme’s father). Here it is said that Salme rested on her way to her Kidichi and Kizimbani plantations. We take a stroll around the lush gardens and the impressive ruins. After our coffee ceremony, we travel to Kidichi by Donkey Cart like Princess Salme used to. We visit the spice plantations to go on a detailed spice tour at Mzee Yussuf’s private spice farm. On this plantation stand the ruins of an old rest house which belonged to Sultan Majid (Salme’s brother) who later sold it to Mzee Yussuf’s grand grand father .
Mzee Yussuf’s wife will prepare traditional Pilau, fish masala, roast beef, stewed bananas, kachumbari salad, several vegetarian dishes, an array of fruits, fresh fruit juice and his famous spice tea. This special lunch is taken in Mzee Yussuf’s house and his plantation is overlooking the Indian Ocean and even Stone Town! (Highest point in Zanzibar)
After lunch we visit the Persian baths in Kidichi which were built for Sultan Said’s second wife Binti Irich Mirza (Sheherazade), who was the daughter of the Persian Shah. We now head back to Mtoni Marine by minibus enjoying the sights of Kidichi. Mzee Majid’s Resthouse
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