Zanzibar Slave Trade Historical Walk
Meet your tour guide at the agreed-upon location to begin your tour.
Explore Zanzibar, commonly known as an important centre for the slave trade along the eastern coast of Africa. This trade left behind significant historical sites that are rich in interesting information.
Visit the main sites of the infamous trade and gain knowledge about the slave trade in Zanzibar.
Begin your excursion at the Dhow Harbour in Malindi, where slave ships brought their human cargo from Tanganyika (Bagamoyo) to Zanzibar and on to the world beyond.
Head to the house of Tippu Tip, the notorious Arab slave trader. The tour continues at the Anglican Church, built by missionary Edward Steere on the old slave market, a site of human misery for hundreds of years. All of these sites are in Stone Town.
After finishing the Stone Town sites, drive to Mbweni, passing the missionary graves to visit Mbweni Ruins, formerly a school for freed slave girls, before heading to Livingstone House and then on to Mangapwani Beach.
Discover the slave chambers, which were used as a place of concealment for human cargo waiting for the monsoons and the arrival of the dhows to be exiled away from home at the time of the abolition of the slave trade.
Walk through the coral caves with a pond of fresh water. This cave was also used to hide slaves after the legal abolition of slavery on the island.
Reflect and relax on the golden sands of the beach, and enjoy a buffet lunch at Mangapwani Restaurant, which is operated at Zanzibar Serena Inn.
End of the tour.
