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Island tours, Jozani forest, shopping tours, and spice tours
Throughout the year
A 20 minutes flight from Dar es Salaam or 2 hour by express sea boat
Zanzibar
About Zanzibar
Colourful history is an epic saga of travellers and traders, raiders and colonisers. To its shores come Sumerians, Arryrians, Egyptians, Phoenicians, indians, Chinese, Malys, Persians, Porguese, Arabs, Dutch and the British, each leaving behind a legacy of their stay. From the island the great European explorers-Burton, Speke, Livingstone, and Stanley-set off for their voyages of discovery into the vast, unchartered wilderness of the great African hinterland. Bantu tribes from the mainland were the first inhabintants of the island, but by 700 AD the Indian Ocean trade winds had brought Persians and Arabs to its shores.
From the beginning of the 16th century, for 200 years, Portuguese raiders dominated this part of the East African coast. Then, in 1652, Zanzibar was invaded by Arabs from Oman, signalling the end of Portuguese domination. Sultan Sayyid moved his capital from Muscat to Zanzibar in 1840 to exploit the flourishing slave trade and the island grew in power wealth and Indonesia
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