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Tanzania Zanzibar trip advisor

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Zanzibar trip advice, adventures...reef diving, snorkeling, kitesurfing, cycling tour and more....





Congratulations, so you've managed to scrape enough money together to afford a detour from your backpacking african pilgrimage to paradisiac sun-infested Zanzibar. Just picture yourself strolling down the beach along its sugar sand beaches, swaying palm trees, and aquamarine tide sea over technicolor reefs. All under a sunny nuclear-blue sky with the sun weighing down on you like a sumo wrestler in some dry sauna. When in Zanzibar bring enough sunblock to slather your entire body for a week, otherwise the sun will melt your skin off and you'll feel like an unrising loaf of bread baked !!!

Kite surfing at Paje beach

Paje beach, strategically located on the east coast, is the perfect tropical-island launch pad to discover what Zanzibar has to offer. Centrally located at the junction where the roads to Jambiani (10min south), bweju/michamvi (10min north) and stone town (40min west) meet. Our welcoming african swahili house is located a stone's throw away from the beach. Very easy and cheap to get to, a mere 2'000tsh bus ride from town or 40'000tsh by our private pick up service from anywhere in town (ferry/airport).

Zanzivibe house is nothing more than a guesthouse (guesthouse definition: private house offering accommodation to paying guests). It is run by fluent English/Dutch/Spanish speaking hosts full of East African backpacking knowledge. It offers a refuge to long term backpackers doing their African pilgrimage, a clean budget place to chill in a place thats sometimes described as bittersweet by many and often dubbed as an overpriced island. While based in Paje you can explore Stone Town, the jozani forest or watch the sunrise while swimming with dolphins. Along the east coast around Paje you can explore nearby Michamvi and its superb sunsets over chwaka bay or stroll down to Jambiani and vibe around the village that sparked the revolution for independence of Zanzibar.



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HISTORY Zanzibar has lured traders, adventurers, plunderers and explorers to its shores for centuries...

The Assyrians, Sumerians, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Indians, Chinese, Persians, Portuguese, Omani Arabs, Dutch and English have all been here at one time or another. Some, particularly the Shirazi Persians and Omani Arabs, stayed to settle and rule. With this influence, Zanzibar has become predominantly Islamic (97%) the remaining 3% is made up of Christians, Hindus and Sikhs. The earliest visitors to Zanzibar were Arab traders who are said to have arrived in the 8th century. The earliest building that remains on Zanzibar is the mosque at Kizimkazi, which dates from 1107, and is a present-day tourist attraction.For centuries the Arabs sailed with the monsoon winds from Oman to trade primarily in ivory, slaves and spices. The two main islands, Unguja (normally known as Zanzibar Island) and Pemba, provided an ideal base for the Omani Arabs, being relatively small, and therefore fairly easy to defend. Indeed, in 1832, Sultan Seyyid Said, of the Busaid dynasty that had emerged in Oman, moved his Sultanate from Muscat to Zanzibar, perhaps making it easier to protect, where he and his descendants ruled for over 130 years. Most of the wealth lay in the hands of the Arab community, who were the main landowners at that time.Widespread intermarriage between Shirazis and Africans gave rise to a coastal community with distinctive features, and a language derived in part from Arabic, which became known as Swahili. The name Swahili comes from the Arab word sawahil, which means coast. The Zanzibar descendants of this group were not greatly involved in the lucrative slave, spice and ivory trades. Instead, they immersed themselves mainly in agriculture and fishing. Those Shirazi that did not intermarry retained their identity as a separate group. Indian traders arrived in connection with the spice and ivory trade, and quickly settled as shopkeepers, traders, skilled artisans and professionals. The British became involved in missionary and trading activities in East Africa, and attempting to suppress the slave trade centred in Zanzibar.Goods from Britain docked here before they moved on to other parts of Africa. No longer very prosperous in the fiscal sense, the island has a wealth of historical monuments to visit which commemorate the African, British and particularly Arab influences- sultan's palaces, cathedrals, mosques, fortresses and old colonial houses. Spice Tours are the ideal way to see the islands historic sites and spice plantations. There is also a sanctuary for the rare Zanzibar duiker and the red colobus monkey in the protected Jozani Forest, just twenty-five kilometers from the town.


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