Zanzibar Travel Stories Travel Articles

The Lizard, the Witch Doctor and the Wazungu – Moshi and Zanzibar, Tanzania

Edward Livant wonders ab

Solo to Africa – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Tanzania and Zanzibar Island

Shannon Rae can't co

One of the 1001 Night Stories – Zanzibar, Tanzania

Jenny Teng was so relieved to have survived the 20

Strange Places, Abnormal Walks – Tanzania and Mauritius

Lionel Messias visits a couple of unusual places i

Karibu Kizimbani

At a wedding in Zanzibar, the village population i

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 [...]

Beach? Smeach! (1 of 2)

Gemma Pitcher spends New Year's Eve on Zanzibar an