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.....