Day 2: Stone town tour, Zanzibar Island spice tour, Palace visit and Slave caves
After breakfast, your guide will meet you at the hotel and take you on a walking tour of Stone Town, Zanzibar City’s fascinating old quarter. You’ll discover the many architectural styles of Zanzibar’s diverse nationalities and intriguing history as you walk around Stone Town’s twisting streets.
Mosques and churches, as well as ornately carved entrances, can all be found. Visit the slave market, where the East African slave trade thrived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before being closed down by the British.
The ancient slave market is now home to the Anglican Cathedral Church of Christ, which houses many reminders to the city’s terrible past. You will then explore the ruins of Maruhubi Palace, which was built in 1880 to house Sultan Said Baraghash Bin Said’s 99 concubines.
After lunch at a pre-selected restaurant, you will go to Stone Town to see the slave caverns. See and learn about how slaves lived during the slave trade era.
Following that, have a spice farm tour. The spice industry in Zanzibar is considerable. Spices, supplied by Omani Arabs in the 19th century at a time when spices were a valuable commodity all over the world, became Zanzibar’s main source of revenue when the slave trade was prohibited.
They are important in Zanzibar culture because they are used in food, as a treatment for various ailments, and as pigments and henna for decorating at festivals and weddings. When you see spices like cinnamon, cloves, black pepper, nutmeg, and turmeric root thriving in the plantations, it’s easy to see why Zanzibar is nicknamed as “The Spice Island.”
Try some of the unusual fruits that grow here, such as jack fruit, custard apple, rambutan, and carambola. Henna, lipstick tree, and lemongrass are among the plants that have been planted here. You then travel to a hotel in the northwestern part of Zanzibar Island. Where will you relax, dine, and spend the night?
All meals are included in the meal plan