Blue skies, turquoise-blue water with sun rays warming your
skin…
Zanzibar has been among my top travel
destinations and it was fulfilling visiting.
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| Awesome Travel Buddies |
Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous island of the United Republic
of Tanzania. They have their own President, though they are still under the
President of Tanzania. The language spoken is Swahili, though some locals speak
English but not fluently. The currency is Tanzanian Shilling. Most of the
locals are Muslims. There are just two churches in Zanzibar.
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| One of the two churches in Zanzibar |
Our first stop was Stone Town. Here we got to see the House
of wonder, it’s called so due to it being the first building in Zanzibar to
have electricity, flowing water and elevator. The streets of Stone Town are
very narrow with lots of winding lanes, carved doorways with almost all the
houses having shops attached to them due to the historic trade center status of
Stone Town. Driving here is right hand.
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| Stone Town |
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| Sharwama Spot |
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Maru Maru Hotel
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| Taking in the Sunset |
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| Dinner time |
The second day we went for Safari Blue tour, where we went
snorkeling. This is one activity I have long wanted to do. I got so hyped about
this trip because of it and had to buy a go-pro camera to capture myself with
the fishes. Totally worth it!
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| Prepping for snokerling |
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| I brought my own sand to the beach... |
Third day was spent touring Prison Island and Spice farm. At Prison
Island, we saw lots of tortoise ranging from very young to over a hundred and
fifty years old. At the spice farm we saw various spice plants and shrubs and
also the end products from them which were on sale.
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Prison Island
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| The Locals turned us to Wakanda Kings at the spice farm |
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| Views... |
We spent the fourth day at the Emerald Dream of Zanaibar
resort. This was the perfect place to relax after all the touring the previous
days. The scenery was top notch, the sumptuous buffet (I finally ate octopus)
and beach side with its beautiful sandbar.
I walked into the ocean and was able to see the ocean floor
clearly. I saw urchins (you don’t want to step on them) and I finally saw and
held Star fishes. I also saw luminous fish. Exploring the sandbar/ocean was
another highlight of the trip.
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| Hakuna Matata |
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| Sea Urchin |
Oh did I forget to mention we had two
night stopovers in Ethiopia? I never knew Ethiopia was a cold country. Like so
damn cold, the hotels don’t even have Air conditioners installed. One weird
thing though about Ethiopia is the old model of cars I saw being used (this one
really surprised me and I can bet most millennia’s had not been born when those
models were in vogue).
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| Old model car in the background |
This trip was everything I hoped for and more…and I have to
give full credit to the @socialprefecttours team for yet again, another
wonderful travel experience.
