Zanzibar (Tanzania)

17.12.2014 - Views on the way from Zanzibar City AP to our hotel

Our room at Hotel Diamonds La Gemma dell'Est

18.12.2014 - "Big Body with Tata" spice farm

Cinnamon

Black/White pepper

Jackfruit (the largest tree fruit in the world weighing up to 55 kg)

Cloves

Spices for sale

Zanzibar City

Slave chambers

Muhammad, our guide, demonstrates the way slaves were chained

Memorial at the place of former slave market

Zanzibar City market

Dorian fruit

market contd

Stone Town - The old part of Zanzibar City

Zanzibar City beach and Port

Old Portugese fort

Freddie Mercurie's house in Stone Town

Ancient large and ornately carved wooden doorways

Selling sugar cane juice

19.12..2014 - A day at the hotel

Fishermen fishing near the hotel's beach

A Dhow boat

Masai evening at the hotel

20.12.2014 - Seaweed farming, Pwani Mchangani Village

Hadija

Drying seaweed

(Hadija's house & her mother and grandchildren, daughter in law)

The village well

More village views

Zanzibar Red Colobus monkey. Jozani National Park

Sykes' Monkey

Mangroves trees

Paje Beach

Masai in Paje beach

Seaweed Centre in Paje selling some of the finished products

21.12.2014 - A relaxed day at the hotel and stroll along the beach

The Masai man told me a funny thing which I don't remember

22.12.2014 - Nungwi Village

Dhow boat construction

The Mnarani Marine Turtles Conservation Pond, Nungwi

Dolphins' skulls

Back in the hotel

23.12.2014 - Last day in Zanzibar

On the way to the airport