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Day 35: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania – Big Brother’s African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: Day 35 - Not everyone in the group are overjoyed
at being reunited on the truck as it does not take long for reality to set ...

Day 34: Stone Town, Zanzibar Island to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania …

Big Brother's African Brother: Day 34 - The Village People were right - it's fun
to stay at the YMCA!

The Moon and the Music (2 of 2)

Tonight is the last night of the celebrations and as the children leave, the party turns from school fete to rave. Teenagers and twentysomethings are now bounding wildly around to tunes that become increasingly bombastic. Pushing aside the curtain onto the dance floor proper, the noise hits me like a wave as a perspiring DJ [...]

The Moon and the Music (1 of 2)

Waiting for the moon to end the fast of Ramadan in

Beach? Smeach! (2 of 2)

I stick my head over the counter of the village shop and recoil as about 2,000 wasps fly up at me from the bags of mangos and grain on the floor. The shopkeeper looks astonished. Later I realise he always looks like this, and treats any request as though it is the most outrageous, insane [...]

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Stone Town Travel Guide Overview

Often known as the exotic spice island, Zanzibar, and the main port city Stone Town, was the starting and organizing point for slave traders, missionaries, and explorers before they went into the interior of Africa. Because of diverse colonial and Islamic influences, Stone Town has a strange mixture of eastern and western influences, very much different from mainland Tanzania. Today legions of tourists flock to Zanzibar after a long hot safari and come to relax on the white-sand beaches, swim in the deep blue Indian Ocean, and explore the hidden alleys of ancient Stone Town.