Duration
Pick up time at 8:30am or 9:00am. Half day excursions.
Suggestions
You can combine with other tour eg Jozani, Dolphin etc.
Excursion time is on low tide.
Notes
*Price on request*
The seaweed center is a project in close association with seaweed farm establishments in Paje beach village, an area renowned for its seaweed processing. The manufacturing site for its seaweed products is located 1 hour drive from Stone Town.
Seaweed farming initiatives have resulted in the production of soaps, creams and treatment scrubs infused with seaweed ingredients such as Lang Lang. These products are sold to visitors and the local community alike, while having also gained modest distribution across many East African hotel establishments. Zanzibar’s seaweed products are also exported to many foreign countries for further processing as well as for use in medicine, cosmetics, and in the preservation of food.
Seaweed farms are built in shallow, calm and constantly warm water found across many beach villages in Zanzibar. Securing them on white sandy bottom seabed, new seaweed saplings are then attached to strings. This seaweed grows quickly and can be harvested after only two weeks, when it reaches an approximate length of 10 inches(FEET?). A small cutting is left on the string and the rest is carried to the village, where it is left out to dry.
You can experience the amazing life of seaweed farming women, as well as the facilities and the capacity building that seaweed farming provides. This is one of many pioneering projects working with women farmers across the region, made possible by Farm Africa’s Maendeleo Agricultural Enterprise Fund.
CHECK OUT OTHER EXCURSIONS
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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) -
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) -
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) -
Zala Park Excursion
Zala Park Tour is a wonderful tour which opens up to a small reserve ...
Duration: Half Day
Price : on request -
Home Cooking Lessons
It is not surprising that the food of the “Spice Island” Zanzibar offers an exotic variety of aromas ...
Duration: 03 Hours
Price from: $55 (subject to number of people)
(client pay transport to/from cooking location separately!) -
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) -
Trip Extension: “Slave Coast”
“Slave coast” On the coral limestone coast of Mangapwani you will have the chance ...
Duration: Half Day
Price: on request -
Seaweed Farming
The seaweed farming is a project that is associated with seaweed farms ...
Duration: Half Day
Price: on request -
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) -
Stone Town City Tour
Stone Town is one of the few intact historical Swahili coastal trading towns of East Arica. ...
Duration: Half Day
Price from town hotel: $60 (subject to number of people)
Price from beach hotel: $100 (subject to number of people)
