3 Day Zanzibar Cultural Tour
Day 1: Arrival at Zanzibar airport/ Sea-port
Arrival at Zanzibar airport, our representative will be there holding assign placards with your name to meet and assist you through the airport formalities. From the airport, you will be transported to your hotel to check-in.
Stone Town Tour
In the evening, you will go to the city tour in Stone Town. The streets at Stone Town are narrow and buildings are made of stone (coral) and mud. That’s one of the reasons it called Stone Town.
Walking through stone town feels just like you are walking through a maze. It is easy to get in, harder to get out, you get to experience the culture of how people live in the town.
Tour site highlights;
- Visits 5 Great historical sites.
- The Former Slave Market Site.
- Darajani Market.
- Freddy Mercury House.
- The Old Fort.
- The Palace Museum.
Around 07:00 pm you will visit the Forodhani night market. Here, there are varieties of food stands, and you get the chance to try some of the delicious local foods like Urojo, a lot of different seafood skewers, sugarcane juice, Zanzibar pizza, and lot more of the Zanzibari cuisine and street food for a very good price.
Street food in Zanzibar
Day 2: Spice & Prison Island Tour
What to bring? Snorkeling equipment if planning to snorkel/ swim.
Spice Tour
After breakfast at your hotel, you will start your day with the trip to the spice plantations to discover the richness of Zanzibar’s spices and fruits, which many of them are not only used for spices in food, but also for medical purposes. Plants like cloves nutmeg, vanilla, ginger, black pepper, cinnamon, cardamom etc., a selection of what you see during the tour. During this tour, you will also taste a home-made local lunch.
Prison Island Tour & Water activities
After the plantations visit, you take a boat trip to the Prison island with an experience guide. The Island itself is beautiful and story behind is fascinating. The best part of it is when you feed a 194 years old tortoise and it is half of human size.
This tour also includes swimming and snorkeling activities.
Water in the ocean is so blue and so clean that you can almost see everything under it. Just put on your snorkeling equipment and you will see a lot of colorful fishes and corals. The atmosphere here is very peaceful with beautiful sights.
After time at the prison island and snorkeling, we head back to your hotel for the night.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Embankment with guns in Zanzibar stone town
Day 3: Departure
After breakfast at your hotel, we head to Zanzibar airport/ the sea-port for your departure.
- IncludedPickup, transfer, and drop-off.Hotel accommodation.Entrance fees to all the sites mentioned in above itinerary including tax.English speaking professional guide.
- Not IncludedInternational or Domestic flight ticket/ (Available upon request)Interims of personal nature (laundry, phone calls…)Entry visa to Tanzania.Tipping and gratuities.
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