We went back to Zanzibar with the students a couple weeks ago and I am finally getting around to posting some pictures from that trip. We spent 3 days and 2 nights on the island and spent most of that time on guided tours. The tours were great – it was so nice to have someone coordinating our transportation, teaching us about Zanzibar and organizing the whole group of us!
Below are several photos. I’m having a hard time uploading all the photos I want to share, so I’ll just start with this batch. And since we are leaving reliable wifi service for 6 weeks, I may not post the rest until November!
Zanzibar Town, the newer city around Stone Town on the main island, Unguja, Zanzibar.
Trucks full of coral stone. The buildings in Stone Town were made of this stone, hence the name. Current construction also uses this rock.
Stone Town, the historic old city in Zanzibar. Stone Town has unique architecture, with Indian, Arabic, German and British influences.
Alley behind our hotel in Stone Town. You can see the coral stone in the hole in the wall on the left side of the photo.
Low tide! Kizimkazi beach.
Kizimkazi. The children were having so much fun! You can see the white boat (the same one in the photo above) at high tide.
We went on a super fun, interesting tour of a small spice farm. So many spices can grow in this climate! We saw: ginger, turmeric, cinnamon, vanilla, cloves (what Zanzibar is famous for), allspice, lemon grass, cacao, black pepper and more. We got to smell and taste pretty much everything!
A Zanzibar Red Colobus Monkey. We saw many of these monkeys at Jozani National Park, where a few large groups are living. Other groups are found around the island, but nowhere else in the world besides Unguja Island, Zanzibar!
SylLy Acres 
October 20, 2016 at 1:32 am
You are taking some GREAT pictures! I can definitely see all of the different influences in their architecture. I don’t really like the looks of that alley, though! Is it possible fore you to bring home any of those spices? I’d especially like the cloves! Or any of them for that matter. The monkey is adorable 🙂
November 1, 2016 at 12:19 pm
Yes, I love the monkeys, too. Wait’ll you see the baboon photos! And although clove production is huge in Zanzibar, I didn’t find any place selling them retail. I think they ship them all off…