4-Day Zanzibar Cultural Tour and Beach Holiday
Highlights
Zanzibar
sunandsand, cultural, Sunset Cruise
Group Tour
4 Days
Easy
English
Description
This is a three-night, four-day tour of Zanzibar Island. You will get a guided tour of Stone Town, a Spice Island tour, a cultural tour, and a visit to the slave caves. Visit the Kidichi Persian baths built by the first Sultan of Zanzibar, Sultan Said bin Sultan, in 1850. After that, you’ll be taken to the ruins of the Maruhubi Palace, built in 1880.
Itinerary
-
Day 1: Arrival at Stone Town
Meet and greet on arrival at the Zanzibar airport. You will then be transferred to your hotel in Stone Town. Overnight stay at Zanzibar Serena Inn or Tembo House Hotel based on your preference on a bed and breakfast basis.
-
Day 2: Zanzibar Island Spice Tour, The Palaces, and Slave Caves
After breakfast at the hotel, depart for a spice tour. You will visit several spices-growing areas to learn about the nature of the spices, how they are reared, and their uses. You can even taste and purchase some of the spices straight from the source. There is a wide variety of spices and herbs grown in Zanzibar including medicinal herbs, cosmetics plants, and ornamental plants. If the season is right, you will see such interesting spices/herbs as cloves, rambutan, iodine plants, nutmeg, lipstick, vanilla, lemon grass, shampoo plant, henna, and many others.
Later in the tour, you’ll be visiting the Kidichi Persian baths built by the first Sultan of Zanzibar, Sultan Said bin Sultan, in 1850. After that, you’ll be taken to the ruins of the Maruhubi Palace built in 1880. It was purposely built by Sultan Said Baraghash Bin Said to accommodate his 99 concubines.
Lunch will be arranged at Serena Restaurant in Mangapwani.
After exploring the area in the afternoon, you’ll get to visit the Slave Caves of Stone Town before having dinner at one of the restaurants in the town.
-
Day 3: Zanzibar Cultural Tour
Breakfast at the hotel, then depart for a cultural tour to get a firsthand experience of the everyday lives of the Zanzibari people and their enduring traditions. You will visit two very special villages and a local school. Lunch at a restaurant in town, then return to your hotel for relaxation. In the evening, you will go for a sunset cruise along the Stone Town waterfront. Return to the hotel for an overnight stay at Zanzibar Serena Inn or at Tembo House Hotel based on your preference on a bed and breakfast basis.
-
Day 4: Departure
After breakfast at the hotel, you will be transferred to the airport for your flight home.
What's Included
What's Excluded
Know Before You Go
What To Bring
Meeting Point
Cancellation Policy
-
For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price
| Adult | |
|---|---|
| 1 to 127 | /person |
| Child | |
| 1 to 127 | /person |
|
This is a group tour |
|