Stone Town, the old town of Zanzibar, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000. It is a pleasure to...
Stone Town's old city is explored on foot and suits one day well: a market in the morning, the memory of sl...
Zanzibar's rains are often heavy showers rather than whole days, especially in April and May and in short r...
The Forodhani Gardens night market is the evening meeting point in Stone Town: at dusk, the water...
Nakupenda ("I love you" in Swahili) is a white sandbank off Stone Town, surrounded by turquoise w...
Prison Island, locally called Changuu, is a small island about twenty minutes by boat from Stone ...
Zanzibar is nicknamed the Spice Island: cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, pepper, cardamom, turm...
Stone Town (Mji Mkongwe) is the old town of Zanzibar, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2...
Chumbe is a small private island off Stone Town, run as a protected marine park. Its coral reserv...
Darajani Market (Marikiti Kuu, "the big market") is Stone Town's everyday market: fruit, vegetabl...
The House of Wonders, or Beit al-Ajaib, is the big white building with colonnades and a clock tow...
The Kidichi Persian Baths are the ruins of baths built in the mid-19th century by Sultan Said bin...
The Mangapwani slave chamber is a cavity cut into coral limestone, about 20 km north of Stone Tow...
Maruhubi Palace is a set of ruins a few kilometres north of Stone Town, built by Sultan Barghash ...
Freddie Mercury, the singer of Queen, was born in Stone Town in 1946 as Farrokh Bulsara, and his ...
