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| Kizimkazi
Tour |
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| A tour to Kizimkazi, taking in the old mosque. This building
remains the oldest, unarguable confirmation of colonial
settlement in East Africa and bears a Kufic inscription
dating it to the 11th Century. More serious historians
should include a visit to Uzi island nearby. Small boats
may be rented for an almost certain swim with the famous
friendly dolphins of Kizimkazi. |
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| Nikokotoni
Village Tumbatu |
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A trip to
Nikokotoni village at the north end of the island. This
is the ferrying point to Tumbatu island and the Mkokotoni
market is the major point where Tumbatuans sell their
fish to Ungujans. For the more adventurous, a trip
to Tumbatu Island. where you can visit the only ancient
mosque built directly at the sea an the East African
coast. The mosque's time of construction is a disputed
date anywhere from the 11th to the 17th century. Should
you be here at the end of July, you should enjoy the once
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| lifetime experience of the celebration of Mwaka
Kogua. Dress: festive. |
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| Spice
Village Tour |
| In the 19th
Century, the islands of Zanzibar received a major boost
in the spice trade with the Omani introduction of cloves.
Zanzibar had a near monopoly on the world trade for a
long time and despite the emphasis on the wealth gained
from the sale of slaves and ivory, the clove industry was
the real foundation of the golden age of Zanzibar. This
was however, not the climax of the spice trade, it was
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For centuries,
there had been introductions and exploitations of
different forms of spices between the Zanzibaris and the
other civilizations of the Indian Ocean basin. Spices
were traded along this coast with the Egyptian Fatmid and
Mamiukian dynasties and later with the Byzantine and
Ottoman empires. The industry provided a source of the
wealth and increased trade and economic growth of the
middle east in the middle ages.
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| The small spice
plots owned by individual farmers are a relatively new
phenomenon here. Previously, large plantations were
worked by slaves. The individual spice farmer is the heir
of his slave forefathers.
An interesting
route for the spice tour begins at the Anglican Cathedral
which was constructed to commemorate the end of slavery
in East Africa. The monuments and relics for the past are
deeply moving and the building itself is the physical
commemoration of one of the greater moments in human
history. To pass from this Cathedral through the spice
farms and on to the slave caves at Mwangapani, where
hundreds of people were packed into a horrible hole to
await death or a lifetime of slavery, is a Journey from
our finest ideals back to our darkest, cruelest depths.
A side tour,
which is very rarely taken is a trip to Grave Island. The
cemetery is dedicated to those people who lost their
lives fighting against the slave trade. We hope that
someone will one day write a book, based on the personal
tragedies of the men who lost their lives in that fight. |
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| Prison Island
Tour |
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| This small
island, a few kilometers west of Zanzibar town has a
horrible history. Safely away from Unguja and yet always
within view of Zanzibar town, it was first used by an
Arab slave merchant to detain recalcitrant slaves. In the
1890s a General Matthews bought the island and built what
be intended as the prison for Zanzibar. The building was,
however, never used as such. Later, it became a
quarantine station for Zanzibar, Kenya, Uganda and then Tanganyika.
Today Prison
Island is known for its giant tortoises. It offers
excellent views of Zanzibar town, fine bathing and
snorkeling. We can arrange for an excellent boat captain
to escort you. Be sure to have $1.00 to pay admission to
the park |
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| Jozani
Forest Tour |
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| We encourage
you to take at least a small walk through the rainforest,
which is uniquely beautiful and very peaceful. If you
have any doubts about other mammals having personality,
character and choice of behavior, make sure you spend
enough time in the rainforests to see the Red Colobus
monkeys who shun the cheap feasts provided by tourists
along the road. Just as in our human community, there are
introverts and extroverts - or normal people and showmen
~ the Red Colobus monkeys along the road will do anything
for a banana. Those
that remain deeper in the forest, however, maintain a shy
dignity and a grace which is poignantly beautiful. |
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