Duration
Pick up time at 8:30am or 9:00am. Full day excursions.
Suggestions
You can bring swim clothes and towel.
Notes
Wear conservative clothes to respect culture. Please photograph people only upon request. Consult your guide if giving gifts to local children.
This excursion will give you an interesting insight into the traditional life of fishing and farming in Zanzibar.
The excursion begins with a visit to a spice plantation. Not only will you see how farmers cultivate spices, fruits and vegetables, you will also get to smell and taste them, as fruit samples and spiced teas are served.
At the village of Mchangani little has changed during the last centuries. Women still use dried palm leaves for weaving mats and thatching roofs. Enter a local house and see how women paint henna and collect water from a well.
A local will show and explain you how the coconut is essential for the villagers. You can participate and learn how to remove the husk and witness the grating process.
At the Mkokotoni fish market you can see the variety of fish caught in the Zanzibar seas. Then, we visit a local blacksmith showing how to manually make nails.
Guests will have a lunch break in Nungwi at a local restaurant to taste the Zanzibar cuisine. (Optional & paid directly).
In Nungwi you will witness how wooden dhows are built. Last stop is the “Mnarani natural aquarium”, a lagoon which server as a sanctuary for the endangered Green and Hawksbill Sea Turtles
MORE EXCURSIONS
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Trip Extension: “Slave Coast”
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Zala Park Excursion
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Home Cooking Lessons
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Duration: 03 Hours
Price from: $55 (subject to number of people)
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Safari Blue Dayout
Safari Blue brings you close to the most interesting and beautiful natural ....
Duration: Full Day
Price from town hotel: $130 (subject to number of people)
Price from beach hotel: $180 (subject to number of people) -
Prison Island Tour
A traditional wooden dhow will bring you on a 20 minutes ride to Prison Island...
Duration: Half Day
Price from town hotel: $65 (subject to number of people)
Price from beach hotel: $120 (subject to number of people) -
Seaweed Farming
The seaweed farming is a project that is associated with seaweed farms ...
Duration: Half Day
Price: on request -
Jozani Forest
Jozani Forest is part of the “Jozani Chwaka Bay National Park”, a conservation area...
Duration: Half Day
Price from town hotel: $65 (subject to number of people)
Price from beach hotel: $125 (subject to number of people) -
Stone Town City Tour
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Duration: Half Day
Price from town hotel: $60 (subject to number of people)
Price from beach hotel: $100 (subject to number of people) -
Exciting Spice Tour
Zenith Tours is a Zanzibar and Dar-Es-Salaam based tour operator specialising ..
Duration: Half Day
Price from town hotel: $45 (subject to number of people)
Price from beach hotel: $95 (subject to number of people) -
Mnemba Snorkeling
Zanzibar and Pemba Island are reputed to have some of the best scuba diving...
Duration: Half Day
Price from town hotel: $240 (subject to number of people)
Price from beach hotel: $220 (subject to number of people) -
Cutural Village Tour
The excursion begins with a visit to a spice plantation. Not only will you..
Duration: Full Day
Price from town hotel: $150 (subject to number of people)
Price from beach hotel: $160 (subject to number of people)
