Continuation:
We had an interesting week in Kenya, but Zanzibar was waiting for us. To be honest, we originally made all this mess because of Zanzibar .. We sat on Skype, played the Google Planet globe. My eyes fell on Africa, and then I remembered that I had seen a photo of my school friend in Odnoklassniki, and that he was somewhere in the Kilimanjaro area. I called. “Lizka, if you get to Africa, you will compare EVERYTHING with her, and any beach vacation with Zanzibar! " I believed.
1. This is not Zanzibar))))
We were taken to Zanzibar by a small airplane, very comfortable with sandwiches and water on board. It took a long time to get a visa ... Luggage quickly. And attention, in Zanzibar they are checking for the yellow fever vaccine !!! They check very persistently - they will not be allowed into the airport building, and you will remain on the airfield
2.our plane
3. Zanzibar Airport. The lens was not ready for this climate)
We were met by a strange and very unpleasant taxi driver.
But first, the background. Relations between Kenyans and Tanzanians are not the warmest to say the least. Although both countries are part of the commonwealth of East African countries and their inhabitants travel (ha ha ha) to visit each other without a visa.
Why they don't love each other, I still don't understand, maybe it's all about religion. Kenyans are Catholics, Tanzanians are Muslims. But the fact remains, and when we told our friend from Mombasa, Jenny, that we were going to Zanzibar, we met her a little reproachful look: “What's there to do WEEK? Mombasa has a great ocean and a great vacation! " (Yeah of course))))
Nevertheless, Jenny suddenly discovered an oligarchic Tanzanian uncle Sam, who was in Zanzibar and knows where to live there ... Uncle promised to be happy to help and booked us a hotel where he once lived .. Well, he ordered a taxi.
Taxi "from insiders" is more expensive in any city of any country (well, except for European and USA, everything is fixed there). I learned this axiom first in Kislovodsk, then consolidated it in Sevastopol and finally voiced Dashka in Zanzibar.
The taxi driver drove us about 5 minutes from the airport, then turned into a small street and we ended up in a "cool hotel". Well, outwardly, the hotel usually looked like a Turkish 4-ku, probably ..
But there were two obvious drawbacks. The first is the proximity of the airport. This disadvantage was instantly confirmed by the sound of an aircraft flying over us. And the second - the ocean was NOT there! Ie he was, the hotel was on the shore, but there was no water ... To my question, "where do you swim here?" I was kindly and proudly pointed out to the pool.
The fact is that in Zanzibar, the tide is everywhere! And somewhere the ebb-tide-ebb cycle takes place in a few hours, but somewhere it will take 2-3 days ... Of course, we did not stay at the hotel. We returned to the taxi driver, we say it won't go, take us to Kendwa! (Kendwa is the only beach in Zanzibar where there is no noticeable ebb tide .. My classmate recommended it and even designated the hotel correctly. But what's strange is that all the coolest hotels in Zanzibar are on the other side of the island, where water is not a frequent visitor.
The taxi driver babbles something, and then calls the price tag - $ 60. To put it mildly, we freak out. ... The red price to get to Kendwa is $ 20, it is written about this in any Internet report about Zanzibar. We refuse. But we don't get out of the car. We are trying to bargain. The taxi driver is disgusting. But there are no other cars or people nearby. The option to get out of the car with the heaviest suitcases (Our dear Jenny gave us 2 kg of Kenyan tea and the same amount of cane sugar ...) is not considered. This freak is going to take us to Stonetown, to some office, to resolve the issue ... With whom and what he wants to find out is not clear. As a result, we agree to $ 40, provided that if there are no rooms in the hotel we need, he will take us along the coast.
So, having spat on all these "acquaintances" again, we go to Kedwa Rocks with the firm confidence that there will be places there. Confidence does not fail. At first, we are really offered a tiny single room on the second floor with a shower in the room .. But then, having worked out the question, we agree that we are ready to wander around the rooms and move at least 2 times, just to live here. (By the way, each of our subsequent numbers was bigger and better than the previous one, and each had its own flavor).
5. This is our number for the final 2 days
The driver does not lag behind us, demands more money for the fact that he met us at the airport. I throw $ 10 in his face and say that if it weren't for his nasty behavior and greed, we would have chartered him for a couple more trips, and I wish him not to earn another cent (he pissed me off)! The taxi driver grumbles something ... Or maybe he reads the opposite spell. But I'm already far away
This is where the unpleasant part of Zanzibar ends. We are finally home! Throwing suitcases, changing clothes and running to the beach.
This is a must see! Snow-white sand feels like clay ... It's soft, it's not hot ...
The ocean is mesmerizing ...
This is exactly what the water should be ... Exactly this color ...
I really have no words to describe the delight!
10. Our Kendwa Rocks
Kendwa beach is very successful, there are hammocks on the territory of the hotel, and sun loungers are decorated in the form of beds)) or boats .. There are many guests. There are NO Russians. Contingent 25-37, mainly from Canada, South Africa, England, Germany ... this is in our hotel.
There is a whole Italian diaspora in the neighborhood. They have their own hotel, where no one except Italians is allowed. It's not even on the map of Zanzibar, which you can take at the airport. Next to the Italians, there are pseudo-Massai who are trying to sell their souvenirs to tourists and are terribly tired.
13. Sellers of pareos, glasses and any other garbage dart along the shore, but they do not enter the hotel territory - the guards are working
In Zanzibar we play the fool ... We wake up, have breakfast (breakfast is not very good there .. but it's not scary), wallow on the beach, swim, sunbathe, swim, have lunch, swim, sunbathe, change clothes, have dinner, sleep
15. Fishing nets ..
We even walk not far ... When we are going to reach an expensive hotel protruding into the ocean, the tide begins and you can get there only by swimming, and when the path is clear it is hot.
17. That same expensive hotel
Last revised: July 2017
There was about why it is worth going to Zanzibar. And here we will tell you about what you need to foresee before your trip. All data is based on personal experience.
How to get to Zanzibar
If we talk about Ukraine and Russia, then there are no direct flights to Zanzibar. It is necessary to get there in transit through the UAE, Tanzania and other African countries. Read more about how to do this in the article "".
Moving around the island
It is very easy to move inside the island, since it is small (just over 80 km in length).
You can travel by local cheap and unsafe transport, which is used by the Zanzibari themselves. This is something like Thai tuk-tuk, but usually very shabby and generally not designed for tourists. It looks like this:
A wiser option would be to hire a taxi driver. For example, from Zanzibar airport to Boo Boo Boo beach (which is about the middle of the way to the farthest northern point of the island) a taxi will cost 25-30 dollars. But then you will be taken comfortably and to the door of the hotel, unlike public transport, which can only drop you off on the road.
Where to stay
Where to stay in Zanzibar is a perennial topic of travel controversy. The fact is that how many people, so many opinions. But first of all, you must choose the beach that suits you best. Read our.
As for the choice of a hotel, there is a very wide field of possibilities. You can stay with locals who rent out rooms. This "pleasure" can be bought for 10-12 bucks per person per day. If you are not a fussy traveler and want to get to know the life of the local population closely, then go ahead.
Those who are not yet ready for such an extreme are still recommended to stay in hotels. Most often this is an oceanfront bungalow. But they are all of different levels and styles. We, for example, through the service booking.com chose one of the expensive hotels with a room rate of $ 100 per night called Hakuna Matata. The choice fell on him mainly due to the fact that its owners are Germans, who themselves control everything and are often personally in the hotel. After reading the stories of how local hotel owners cheat guests and do not fight hotel theft organized by the staff, we definitely decided to make a choice in favor of this particular place in terms of safety and attitude towards tourists. And they did not lose. More details about Hakuna Matata hotel will be in another post.
Separately, let's say about Stone Town and the hotels there. It is an old town in the capital of the island of Zanzibar, which is also called Zanzibar. It is in this place that Russian tourists love to stay. However, the Europeans go inland and they are right. Because Stone Town is, in my deep conviction, only a tourist, but not a resort, city. It is noisy, dirty, no island holiday flavor. Nice beaches also not, since it is also a port.
In general, with regard to accommodation in Zanzibar, good advice from other travelers whom we did not use: you can stay in different hotels for a couple of days to taste the delights of relaxation in every corner of the island. However, if I went to Zanzibar for the second time, I would still stay at Boo Boo Boo beach. After all, the island is small, you can go around it far and wide in a couple of days and living in one place.
Zanzibar nightlife
Don't rely on Zanzibar to hang out in awesome nightclubs and have a tumultuous nightlife... In this regard, it is rather dull here. Zanzibar is more for people who love a relaxing holiday in nature, for example, for couples who want a beach holiday, boat trips and romance.
How many days to go
This question is, of course, rhetorical, because each person is individual, but you will still ask yourself, so I will tell you what happened on my own experience.
We were in Zanzibar for 5 full days. Of these, we traveled around the island for three days, which, of course, was convenient to combine with a beach vacation, because traveling around Zanzibar is basically a trip along the beaches. It took a couple of days only for a beach holiday plus a trip to Stone Town. As for me, that time was not enough, it would have been better to stay on the island for about 1-2 days longer. Although, I think, in a week there will be boring. But this is for us, since we are accustomed to active, intense rest. And for those who like to lie on the beach like a seal in unlimited quantities, of course, it will be fine to stay here for 10 days.
Zanzibar payment systems
In Zanzibar, you can pay with an international card, but not everywhere. In hotels and cafes of a high level - no problem, but in shops and unpretentious cafes will not work. Therefore, there should always be cash ready. Moreover, including small. Because sly locals can easily say that they have no change, in the hope that you will forgive them.
Also, keep in mind that you only need to bring new dollars with you. Dollars older than 2006 will simply not be accepted there.
Internet in Zanzibar
The quality of the Internet in Zanzibar, even in luxury hotels, leaves much to be desired. By its speed, we can say that there is practically no Internet. Therefore, if you expect, being in Zanzibar, to solve some business via the Internet, forget about this idea right away.
Communication with locals
The local population is very humorous, friendly, always willing to help, suggest and, of course, make money on you. Usually with triple fat. However, this is such a tradition, because it is customary to bargain here. Such a national tradition, apparently taken over from the Arabs, with whom Zanzibar is linked by a common sad story (earlier the Arabs traded in the Zanzibar labor force).
Yes, there is theft in hotels, just like on the streets. But in general, the Zanzibari people are a very bright people who will leave the best impressions in your soul.
Security measures
Before going anywhere, I usually prepare very carefully. Be sure to read information about the dangers that can be encountered, and so on. The trip to Zanzibar was no exception.
So. What you need to take with you:
Bathing slippers, as the bottom on the Zanzibar beaches is strewn with sea urchins;
Repellents;
Sun cream with a protection of at least 50;
Malaria prophylaxis pills (if you are going to carry it out) - more in;
Medicines that you usually take with you when traveling;
Disinfectants.
Most interestingly, all these rules are canceled when you come to Zanzibar and imbued with the spirit of Hakuna Matata (translated from Swahili - "no problem"). As a result, we lost our swimming slippers (we thought to buy there, but then we decided that we could use slippers too). We spent a couple of days with repellents, after which they still bit us - and we stopped using anything. The anti-tan cream ran out at the most inopportune moment (before the trip to Stone Town, where we walked under the scorching sun all day) - it's strange that with those last drops of the ending cream that we smeared on ourselves, we didn't burn out. We initially decided not to drink anti-malaria pills. Fortunately, the medicines we took with us were not useful. Well, I began to use disinfectants only upon arrival home, because during the trip I did not really care about the fact that I was eating and drinking on the side of the road from the hands of Africans, who also did not disinfect anything. That was Hakuna Matata. Although I still advise everyone to follow the rules of precaution and basic hygiene.
... or a wild journey into the heart of the Indian Ocean in search of a tourist dream ...
Summer 2012
I was looking for a tourist dream in Africa and I was told that it is located somewhere in this area. However, at first I saw two corpsesswaying lazily on the waves as our catamaran passed at the southwestern tip zanzibar islands.
Eight days ago a ferry sank here “ Skagit”. 145 people were saved, 62 were reported dead in the first three days, another 80 were considered missing. There is nothing to shoot in the sea and I caught my lens on the buoy, thinking to click it against the background of a palm strip on the horizon when I approached. That it was not the buoy that did not immediately realize, it took some more time to realize what it really is. I guess I looked crazy once one of the team members began to tell me that they would immediately report the coordinates to the Coast Guard and they would raise the corpse. Five minutes later, we swept past the second body.
When I was planning a trip to Tanzania, I thought about returning to Dar es Salaam on the ferry "Skagit" - it is night and cheap. The first impressions of the tourist dream - the paradise archipelago of Zanzibar turned out to be somewhat blurry ...
Customs welcome
The easiest way to get to Zanzibar is by boat or high-speed catamaran from Dar es Salaam: in the morning, every hour something goes there. The fare is worth from 25 to 40 dollars (prices on the sunken ferry started from $ 10), on the way from 2.5 to 4 hours. There are also small planes for $ 60 with a schedule like minibuses on final stops - Departure on filling the cabin.
Zanzibar is an autonomy within Tanzania, at the port you go through customs, which is cool, because the passport will have a colorful stamp with an ink inscription “ ZANZIBAR PORT”, For some reason they don't put a stamp on the road.
A pretty dark-skinned girl in an orange chador, the lady of the seal, asked me for a yellow fever vaccination certificate. There was no help and the girl, squinting like an experienced traffic cop, said that the problem can be solved in 10, and for you, "honey", what is already there, for 5 dollars. We agreed on a magnet with a view of the exotic city of Zaporozhye - it also starts with “ Z”.
My friend Bruce says that corruption is one of the Zanzibar tricks, even on the mainland it is weaker. Well! It's so cute and homey ...
A lot of positive
It seemed to me that the tourist dream lives on the ocean, on that white and blue edge where civilization has already ended, but you are not yet part of some crazy marine food chain. And I immediately went to the north of the island, to Nungwiwhere, according to a Google search, the most the best beaches... The roads in Zanzibar are excellent and the neighbors on the bus are noisy and smiling. On the way there is a village with a catchy name “ Boo Boo Boo”.
Nungwi is a nest of posh hotels that are like ticks digging into my travel dream and brazenly branding paradise. My friend Bruce says that tourists usually do not come out for the territory of these hotels, and the funds that they spend here, thanks to the local "chip", benefit only a couple of important people in Zanzibar.
Color of the skin in Nungwi, it works as a pass and soon I found myself on the territory of an expensive hotel, in the company of people whom I tried to carefully avoid: awkward women in revealing bathing suits, pot-bellied men with lifeless looks and embarrassed chuckles - all as one American, and all terribly the same. And they have training here on how to find “happiness” or “positive” in life.
Americans good people, they are sincere on the path to happiness and therefore hotly discussed their only way out of the hotel-oasis fence - an excursion to the farm where the spices are made. There, in their words, women and small childrenwork hard on a par with men in the collection and processing of carnations. The training participants were emotionally indignant and were going to write a petition about such a blatant injustice in the UN.
However, no “positive” is able to spoil the impressions of the local beaches and bottomless skies. A day at the hotel costs like six months of a child's work on a clove plantation, but light skin in an African resort again gives a number of advantages - none of the staff objected to my spending the night on the beach. The night between a stranger starry sky and an ocean full of shimmering wonders reconciled me a bit with Africa and revived my faith in the Great Travel Dream, which almost drowned on the way to Zanzibar.
Stone town
The next day I returned to Stone Town... This is the historical part of Zanzibar city. In 1499, here in the bay on way back Vasco da Gama stayed from India, but in the form that is now protected by UNESCO, Stone Town arose much later thanks to two controversial people - the Sultan of Oman Seyid Said and the slave-trader oligarch Tippu Chibu.
The first in 1840 moved the capital of the Oman Empire to Zanzibar (this is more than 4000 km to the south) - oil in Persian Gulf then they were not yet mined, but the slave trade and spices were a very profitable business. The sultan moved closer to the business of the “family”. He did not suffer from xenophobia at all: under him there were trade and construction booms on the island, Indian, Arab and European merchants flourished, Zanzibar became business capitalEast Africa.
After the death of the Sultan, the Empire of Oman disintegrated, the archipelago became relatively independent amid increasing pressure from the British and a gloomy figure appeared on the historical stage Tippu Chiba (pictured on the right) is an unscrupulous and cruel businessman who made a fortune by trapping people in the jungle of the continent and turning them into slaves. Like the notorious figures of modern politics, Tippu Tib supported the traditional Eastern Partnership for Zanzibar, but also did not forget about the “European vector” - for example, he supplied expeditions David Livingston and even personally attended Livingston's historic meeting with Stanley. Thanks to him slave trade with a formal ban in 1873, it held out here almost until the beginning of the 20th century, and the Europeans and Arabs, having their own benefit, turned a blind eye to it for two decades. Tippu Tibom retired wrote a pathetic autobiography - the first literary work in Swahili (perhaps for the tax authorities of Zanzibar his wealth was recorded as writing fees)) and went down in history as a very progressive type ... Tibom;)))
Be that as it may, the 19th century and the era of the slave trade became golden for Zanzibar and gave Africa a cozy city-masterpiece at the junction of eastern and western architectural traditions with unspoiled architecture. In 1896, it happened Anglo-Zanzibar War - the shortest war in history. The British speak of this attempt to defend independence with irony - for 38 minutes the English navy turned into ruins the Sultan's Palace and the surrounding buildings. However, along with this war and six hundred dead, the brightest page of their controversial history ended for the Zanzibari. But in her honor there is a wonderful monument - Stone Town.
Just for support ...
I was looking at the triangular sails of fishing boats - “ doe”And waited for the sunset, sitting on the cobblestones of the most harmonious embankment in the world, when, a little embarrassed, a dumb red-eyed prototype of the Almighty approached me, too wild to live and too rare to die. I had little doubt that he would say: “ Mister hello! How are you? Nice sunset, huh? Need no marijuana? Purely for medical purposes, huh?”. I read that it is easy in Zanzibar, but still a little confused. My friend Bruce says that marijuana are grown on the island no less than carnations, and both are more profitable to sell on the black market, smuggled into Kenya or just to tourists like me. I gave up on Zanzibar-style medicine. The guy with red eyes chuckled philosophically: “ OK. Can you just give some money? AND? Just for support?”
Almost all the inhabitants of the island are pretty speak decent english... School education is compulsory here, and after the third grade, all subjects are taught in English. More than 80% of Zanzibar's population is Muslim. Perhaps this partly explains the very sane attitude towards guests - on the mainland, in the pagan Christian Dar es Salaam, there is huge unemployment and a colossal number of robberies of tourists, the basis of communication there: “ Mister, you don't go there, they'll stuff your face there and take the money away. And give me something for warning”. In Zanzibar, guests are loved, I have not read or heard about the "squeezing" of funds or any gadgets - probably only here from all of East Africa is possible calmly spend the night on the beach or pitch a tent. Zanzibari people communicate and help sincerely and with pleasure, they smile beautifully and contrastingly - even the drug dealers are polite. However, in rare cases, they can still say, they say, how much is not a pity? Pure for support ... However, no one is offended for a refusal in support - ...
The main share of the charm of Zanzibar (and on the second day, even despite the unfortunate acquaintance, I began to penetrate the island) is in its inhabitants, in a completely eclectic ethnic composition of the population and their ability to get along with each other and with tourists. Representatives of various African tribes live here - the incredibly beautiful, as if chiseled Masai, barefoot and with sticks, busily and arrogantly pulling out smartphones from their multi-colored outfits are especially striking ... Proud Arabs, fussy Indians, noisy Persians - Zanzibar is real brew of cultures and peoples and ... a charming brew.
It is not surprising that it was here in 1946 that he was born Farrukh Bulsara - an icon of musical talent and expression of the second half of the 20th century, better known as ...
Freddie Mercury
The lead singer of the group Queen Persian origin. The Shirazi Persians reached Zanzibar in the 10th century (500 years before Vasco da Gama), founded a trading post here and built the first mosque in the southern hemisphere. However, Freddie is from a Zoroastrian family - in Zanzibar, despite the prevalence of Islam for a thousand years, a complete religious tolerance.
However, this tolerance does not apply to all aspects of life. The birthplace of one of the most famous musicians in the world, seemingly amazing travel content, however no one I did not see the poster / magnet / keychain with the image of Mercury.
“He's gaySays my Zanzibar friend Bruce, no one here likes gays, no Muslims, no Hindus, no one ... Everyone knows that Mercury is ours, but if his family remained in Zanzibar, it would be a shame”
The future musician went with his parents to England in 1964 during the bloody Zanzibar socialist revolution. (Pictured on the right is Freddie / Farukh as a child in Zanzibar). After the revolution, the archipelago became an autonomous part of Tanzania (actually the word “ Tanzania"A combination of two names of the former colonies:" Tanganyika "- the continental part and" Zanzybar ”- islands in the ocean). In the reserved socialist-Islamic society of the archipelago, Freddie Mercury was listened to, admired, but not proud of him ...
My friend bruce
Bruce's name is actually somehow difficult in African. A guy in a Jamaican hat gave me some Zanzibar coffee at crossroads of Zokumkhiy, one of the most "party" places in Stone Town. We got into a conversation, he offered to call him Bruce, said that he is 25 years old, he is a fisherman, he has two wives and two children. The next day I had to fly home and wanted to treat Bruce with Ukrainian cognac, an unopened bottle of which was in my backpack at the hotel. Bruce refused cognac “ What are you! I'm a Muslim!"But he offered to go to his brother for something called" Malawi Year”. He introduced me to his brother as an old friend from “ ... forgot where you are from, mister?”
We sat by the sea in a vanilla tropical twilight, I sipped beer. " Kilimanjaro”, And Bruce puffed on the jamb with the mysterious“ Malawi Year ”and told me“ for life ”. For a couple of hours of communication with Bruce, I learned, and most importantly, I understood more about Zanzibar than I had read and could have read and understood over the years ...
“It's hard ... The fish are fewer and fewer, my grandfather's boat is still quite bad, it's scary to go far on it, otherwise I would take a carnation or marijuana to Kenya ... I need to feed my family ... Maybe I wouldn't take my second wife, but she would then she completely disappeared - she has only women in her family ...“I was expecting something like“ just for support ”that would have spoiled the evening a bit, but instead Bruce said:“ If you want - let's go and eat with me, after Malawi the Year will be hungry ... in vain, by the way, you don't smoke, he's cool ... Well, nothing! Everything will be fine! Here ... I'll take a third wife soon!”. I was surprised and suggested that it might be better to stop if it is not easy to feed two wives? " Yes, I know ... But ... Have you seen my brother? I have one more brother ... Or rather was ... This is his wife. What will she live on if no one takes her? Almost relatives. And her brother is her husband, was on the ferrythat drowned last week ... Heard? His body was never found"... And then I was covered:" Fuck ... You know, let's have your Malawi Year ...”
Raoul Duke from Zanzibar with love ...
Perhaps a tourist dream is unattainable, perhaps there is no paradise and all this is just idle chatter, a product of the crazy imagination of a Ukrainian whose heart is overflowing with cynicism, but who has found a way to live at least a little where the real wind blows - where you can stay up late, have fun, be wild , smoke, drink beer, drive through empty streets and have nothing in your head except the desire to love life and not be arrested.
Greetings to Raoul Duke and his infernal Las Vegas from the stone labyrinths of Stone Town ... From the abyss of colonial ether, squeezed between discreet Muslim houses and luxurious villas of Indian merchants that are so equally tanned by the southern monsoons ... Hello from noisy bazaars with the most exotic fruits and fish markets with unimaginable sea creatures on the shelves ... Greetings from companies gathering at the stone benches and famous carved doors Zanzibar, by which they once judged the status of the owner of the dwelling ... Greetings from the lanes filled with the evening joy of Ramadan, then the morning rush and emptiness ... Greetings from the third dimension, from the depths that made this city real and which never what you will not see if you are not helped, or until you spend a lot of time here.
Hunter Thompson, whose altergo we say hello to, wrote that happiness is sometimes “ in a mixture of ignorance and looseness - self-confidence of the "and to hell with him" type that a person gains when the wind blows in his back and he begins to move in a clear straight line to an unknown horizon”. A tourist dream is not necessarily with a photoshopped sky and an expensive swimsuit, sometimes it cannot be achieved without “ and to hell with him”, It can come true completely unexpectedly, in the form of fear and adventure in a completely unfamiliar place. The main thing is only to there was no fencethat fences you off from the world along with pale people with extinct eyes, and it would be good if there was a friend or at least an interlocutor nearby, that he knows much more about this life than you, and around life itself - un-imagined, creepy and beautiful.
Fragments of works used Hunter S. Thompson "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "The Rum Diary", "Songs of the Doomed"
P.S. Zanzibar Pictures
1. Stone Town from a boat arriving in Zanzibar. View - a bonus to the ticket)))
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2. Zanzibar transport with a Zanzibar number - ZNZ... By the way on the go! 
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3. The streets-bazaars of Stone Town ... 
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4. Isn't it lovely? 
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5. Or lo! Just awesome, monsoon-blown wall and gorgeous windows! 
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6. The seller with red eyes ... 
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7. Shaggy fruits - very tasty by the way! 
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8. Tourist beach at Nungwi...
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9. Paradise ... 
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10. Beyond the fence of paradise ... 
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11. Tanzanians for some reason really do not like to be photographed ... 
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12. But, probably, they probably love extreme sports ... 
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13. Fishermen are going to work ... 
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14. Glamorous youth on the waterfront ... 
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15. Stone Town Center and Tourist Market ... 
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16. Zanzibar cats at the Sultan's palace Seyida Seida...
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17. Famous carved doorsStone Town ... 
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18. Fishing boats ... 
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19. Zanzibar as it is ... 
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20. View of the center of Stone Town from a boat going to the mainland ... 
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This island is very ... real. " Karibu Zanzibar"with Swahili -" Welcome to Zanzibar ", fear and adventure guaranteed!
If you are reading this article, then kiting (kitesurfing) in Zanzibar interests you at least to some extent. Zanzibar is a great place to go kitesurfing all year roundexcept for the rainy season from mid-March to mid-May.
The perfect place to go kiting - east Coast islands, but not every beach is suitable for this. Jambiani Beach is ideal for kitesurfers who come to Zanzibar with their wing. Who love to surf the ocean in splendid isolation.
The capital of kite surfing in Zanzibar
The capital is rightfully called. All kiting schools, all equipment rentals and all fans of this sport are gathered here. This is the youngest beach in Zanzibar, where hundreds of kiters are in the ocean during the day, and in the evening they participate in noisy beach parties.
Paje Beach is the perfect place to study kitesurfing... The choice of schools is huge. It offers both group and individual lessons. Prices for kiting training in Zanzibar are not the most humane: a 9 hour private lesson costs almost $ 500. Three-hour watches are just over $ 300. The price also includes equipment rental.
If you are a confident kiter and you don't have your own wing and board with you on vacation, it doesn't matter. All this can be rented. Moreover, the lease is aimed at stimulating daily rental. This means that it is more profitable to rent the entire set for the whole day than, for example, for an hour or three hours. For example, an hour of renting a full set of ammunition costs from $ 25 to $ 40, and rent for the whole daylight hours is only $ 70.
Kitesurfing Zanzibar Prices (in USD) And finally, if you flew to Zanzibar with your own wing and board, and such airlines as Turkish Airlines, carry sports equipment almost free of charge, you have the opportunity to enjoy one of the best kitesurfing in the world every day. More information is written here.
Kiting (kitesurfing) in Zanzibar: the pros
- No waves. Since two kilometers from east coast the island has a reef 40 kilometers long - the power of the Indian Ocean does not reach the coast and breaks on this reef. Therefore, the ocean surface is ideal for kitesurfing for both beginners and professionals.
- Perfect wind. Medium diagonal wind blows from early morning until nightfall, creating ideal conditions for kiting.
- Equally not a deep ocean. All along the Paget beach, the ocean is the same depth all the way to the reef. It's just under a meter.
All these conditions created ideal conditions for practicing this sport, which resulted in such a daily picture:
Kitesurfing in Zanzibar In conclusion: if you are somehow interested in kitesurfing in Zanzibar, without hesitation, you need to go to the Pagé beach. 90% of tourists on this beach go for kitesurfing, as Unguja is the ideal place for such active species sports.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: below are the main resources without which you cannot organize your vacation in Zanzibar (just add what you need to your bookmarks):
Flight: - the cheapest tickets to Zanzibar via Istanbul, Dubai, Doha or Muscat.
Ready tours: - tours to Zanzibar from 60,000 rubles. (You can find direct charter Moscow - Zanzibar)
Hotels: - hotels on the island with 50% discounts, work with Booking, Ostrovok, Trivago.
Villas, bungalows and hotels on the first line: - there are exclusive options at great prices.
Car rental: - the world leader in car rental, in Zanzibar too.
Extended medical insurance: - cooperate directly with the Zanzibar Hospital and Clinic. When buying insurance, a free online doctor consultation 24/7 on your trip!
To travel to the wondrous places of Africa, you need to be very brave, and the brave ones always receive a reward. An archipelago called Zanzibar, located off the coast of Tanzania, is the best place to start exploring Africa. It has a mild tropical climate, sea, beaches and sun. By the way, Freddie Mercury, the well-known lead singer of the Queen group, was born in Zanzibar, in a place called Stone city and is part of world heritage UNESCO.
Throughout its history, Zanzibar belonged to many countries. It was a colony of Portugal, part of the Sultanate of Oman, a British colony, and now it is part of Tanzania.
In the past, Zanzibar was the largest center of the slave trade, the most famous local slave trader was Tippu Tib, although his father was a Negro himself. Now Zanzibar is the center of snorkelling and diving.
The island has beautiful beaches and many reefs. For snorkeling in Indian Ocean how impossible better fit a small island of Mnemba. Lovers of a quiet holiday prefer chic sandy beaches Matenwe, Uroa, Mangapwani, Jambiani, Mapenzi, etc. You can practice deep-sea fishing on the Pemba and Mafia islands.
Morning in Zanzibar
Bweju Beach
Kendwa Beach
Zanzibar residents
Fishing in Zanzibar
Kitesurfing
Flora and fauna
