Stonetown - living history

After the Pemba trip we continued our journey to Zanzibar and its main city and old town Stonetown.

Zanzibar Town 

A vibrant city peppered with historical buildings, an interesting museum, colorful markets and so on

If you have one day or even less to spend in Stonetown I recomend you to do a city tour. During the day you can easily do that on your own. Certainly you will be asked if you need a guide every other minute. There are german speaking guides as well as french, english....

former embassy of Germany

You should at least visit the museum about slavery and the market. Zanzibar was an important city centuries before. Spices and fruits were and still are the main export goods. As the infrastructure was good they began to export slaves to countries all around the indian ocean. The museum tells the story and you can see the cave were they waited.....

The market is just nextdoors. Get some spieces and honey I sad to myself. And I did :-)
There is also a night market next to the harbour. It is all about food, meat on a skewer. Good fruit juices and sweets.

After a few hours we returned to Switzerland. So I have to come back and explore the rest of the island. And more of Stonetown. I love this city!

so more tips will be postet some day.....

Relaxing days on Pemba

The reason for my short trip to Tanzania was the opening of a hotel on Pemba Island. I was invited by Constance Hotels and Lets go Tours. Constance Aiyana is quite new and during the rany season they took the oportunity to invite some travel agents to see and get familiar with the new resort.

I do not want to talk to much about the hotel. Follow the link and explore the hotel for yourself.

We had a spacious room next to the beach and enjoyed some peacefull days.

my terrace

What to do on Pemba? Well there is not much to do to be honest. Ride a bike to a village and go to the market. Pemba is well known for diving and snorkeling.
We took a change and made a boat tour to the mangroves. Another trip took us to a sandsank for lunch.

The food was amazing an the staff was very warm and friendly.

sandbank

You see we had lot to do ;-)

Thanks again for this amazing trip, the hospitality and the great food!

breakfast will be seved shortly 

Pemba island - heaven on earth

Sitting in the cockpit :-) 

Wow! Quite, green, authentic and a luxury hotel. A dream!

Pemba means green and so is the island. There is actually one main road leading north. It is like the hearth of the island because everybody lives next to it.

Only three hotels are on this island so there are no masses of tourists.

You reach Pemba with a domestic flight from Stonetown on Zanzibar. A small plane approx. 13 seats flies you there in 30 minutes.

on Pembas lifeline 

From the airstrip we drove 1.5h to the very north were the hotel is located. The last 30 minutes is a gravel road that leas through Ngezy Forest a protectet forest.
So quite a long trip but I can tell you it was worth it.