5-Day Exploration of Zanzibar Island
Highlights
Zanzibar
boating, nature, jungle
Group Tour
5 Days
Medium
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swahili
Languages
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swahili
Description
Explore the historic Stone Town, the old part of Zanzibar City, and admire its iconic architecture and historical sites. Wander through the narrow streets of this former sultanate, once a hub for the spice and slave trades. Take a boat trip to Prison Island to see the old quarantine hospital and encounter giant tortoises. Discover Jozani Forest, home to the endangered Zanzibar red colobus monkeys. Experience a Spice Tour at local farms, sampling tropical fruits and learning about various spices used for medicine, food, and ornamentation.
Itinerary
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Day 1: Arrival Day
- After arrival, meet and greet our Representative at Zanzibar Airport and transferred to Stone Town, and check in at the hotel of your choice and overnight.
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Day 2: Prison Island Boat Trip + Stone Town City Tour
- Here you will enjoy the beautiful and the old Stone Town with its historical buildings and other historical sites located in Stone Town madīnat Zanjibār al-ḥajariyya), also known as Mji Mkongwe (Swahili for 'old town'), is the old part of Zanzibar City, the main city of Zanzibar, in Tanzania. The newer portion of the city is known as Ng'ambo, Swahili for 'the other side'. Stone Town is located on the western coast of Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar Archipelago. Former capital of the Zanzibar Sultanate, and flourishing centre of the spice trade as well as the Indian Ocean slave trade in the 19th century, it retained its importance as the main city of Zanzibar during the period of the British protectorate.
- Also there’s a trip boat to one of the Islands located in Zanzibar called Prison Island, there’s an old prison built on 1893 but later was used as a Quarantine Hospital, you will have the chance to see, take pictures and feed the giant tortoises which are the main attraction in prison Island.
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Day 3: Jozani Forest + Spice Tour.
- A Jozani Forest Tour this is the forest found in Unguja Island with about 1,000 hectares it is the only remaining natural forest on Unguja island where long ago you could find leopards and antelopes. At present it is the habitat for the Red Colobus Monkeys. The Zanzibar red colobus, Procolobus kirkii (its population count is about 1000) found in the park, a rain forest species (unlike the black-and-white colobus found in other regions of Africa), is also known as Kirk's red colobus, named after Sir John Kirk, the British Resident of Zanzibar who had first brought it to the attention of zoological science. It is now adopted as the flagship species for conservation in Zanzibar, from the mid-1990s.
- Then you will be taken to A Spice Tour to Spice Farms here you will get a chance to taste the tropical fruits, spice plantations, a variety of spice plants used as Ornaments, Flowers, Medicine and Food Spices and you will be transferred back to your Hotel for overnight and leisure.
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Day 4: Day Rest
- Spend your day at your hotel for leisure and overnight.
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Day 5: Departure Day
- Have some leisure at the hotel till the time for the transfer to the Airport to catch your flight back home. (Pickup will depend on the flight departure time)
What's Included
What's Excluded
Know Before You Go
What To Bring
Meeting Point
Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations within 24 hours before the tour -
Refund of 50% of the tour price.
Price
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10 to 25 | /person |
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1 to 1 | /person |
2 to 2 | /person |
3 to 5 | /person |
6 to 8 | /person |
9 to 9 | /person |
10 to 25 | /person |
This is a group tour |