The tropical pearl of Africa Zanzibar with its white sands, turquoise sea, friendly people, delicious sea food. It is an extremely popular destination, attracting tourists from all over the world with its tropical fruits and especially for honeymoon tours abroad. You can make your holiday or honeymoon unforgettable with both a sea-sun-sand holiday and cultural and action-packed activities in Zanzibar.. Therefore, in this article, I will give information about Zanzibar places to visit and try to answer the question what to do in Zanzibar.
I planned the article as “10 best activities to do in Zanzibar” and ranked them from the most important to the least important in my opinion.. Of course, your preferences may be different, so I have explained what each one is with their prices so that you can decide which ones to do during your trip to Zanzibar.
Vacation to Zanzibar of course should have some rest, so choose one of the following hotels in the region with the most beautiful hotels of the island that fits your taste and budget, click on booking.com to be directed to the booking.com page: NUNGWI HOTELS
In the first three of our 6 nights in Zanzibar, we had chosen among the city center ZANZİBAR CITY HOTELS and explored Stone Town and nearby attractions.. In our last three nights, we had a little sightseeing in Nungwi and enjoyed a little hotel.
The hotels in Nungwi are perfect for enjoying the sun and the sea.
Places to visit in Zanzibar are offered as full or half-day private tours, so we did. Hotel pick-up and drop-off, guide to the place you visit, entrance ticket, meals, if any, are included in this price.. They also arrange transportation for you such as airport transfer or hotel changeover transfer.
I do not recommend leaving the subject of travel to chance as “we’ll see when we go” or “we’ll ask the hotel and they’ll arrange it”.. Because it will be expensive when you take a tour individually or ask from the hotel, even if you say that the person I come across on the road should help, the reliability of the person you will contact will raise a question mark.
If you write to me from my lifeveseyahat instagram account or my [email protected] e-mail address, I will share with you the contact of our guide friend who showed us around and we are very pleased with, you can easily make your travel plan and agree on the price.. Previously, more than 100 of my readers in Sri Lanka and Bali were very satisfied with the guides I recommended, now I am happy that I can recommend someone reliable for Zanzibar as well
So Let’s start with the to-do list in Zanzibar.
The most logical thing to do in Zanzibar by taking a private tour is the one in the photo. You can write to me to contact your trusted local guide friend.
Observe the daily life of locals in Stone Town.
If you have come all the way to the African continent and set foot in Zanzibar, I think that your expectation should not be that I stay in the hotel and swim in the sea, so I put Stone Town, the heart of Zanzibar, in the first place.
While navigating the narrow streets of Stone Town, the historical and touristic center of Zanzibar, you can shop from left and right shops, and find restaurants that interest you. You can try many different dishes, especially seafood, at high rates.
I mentioned in my ZANZIBAR TRAVEL GUIDE article, it’s very hard bargaining when shopping in Zanzibar you must. As in every poor country, there may be some people who insist on entering my shop, don’t get too attached.. Take a look around and discover what life is like in local neighborhoods.
Observe how daily life flows in Zanzibar around Stone Town.
The Zanzibar doors are very famous for their carvings, they will definitely catch your attention while you are wandering around Stone Town.
You will feel very clearly here how African people are integrated with Arab culture.. It is my advice for women not to dress too revealingly in order not to be disturbed by the looks, so I was informed and careful about dressing beforehand (you can see it in the photos below).
The must see places in Zanzibar Stone Town are as follows:
Freddie Mercury’s House strong>: Freddie Mercury, the world-famous founder and frontman of the Queen group, spent his childhood in this house. Since it is a hotel, I guess there is no such thing as visiting inside, everyone looks at their photos at the entrance and poses with one arm in the air, and you can do the same
If the hotel itself The 4-star location and facilities are good. In addition to Freddie Mercury fans, those looking for good hotel recommendation in the center of Zanzibar may consider staying. Click on the hotel name to view its prices and reviews on booking.com: TEMBO HOUSE HOTEL
In front of Freddie Mercury’s house in Stone Town Don’t forget to pose.
Forodhani Food Stall: An evening fruit, vegetable and food market on the beach. Especially those who like street delicacies should not miss it, but even if you are not going to eat it, it is enjoyable to visit.. When we went, we watched with great surprise both the crowd of this food market and the men jumping into the sea right next to it one by one and having fun.
Stone Town The evening food market in . and the famous red sunsets of Zanzibar behind us.
Old Fort: A period that reigned in Zanzibar The full name of the castle, which was built by the Omanis for defense against the Portuguese in 1699, is Ngome Kongwe. Nightly entertainment and festivals are held around the amphitheater, which was added much later, and it is a lively place with street performers and vendors.. There are also tours to see the castle itself, but it didn’t interest us, you can check it out if you do.
Around the castle and amphitheater in Stone Town It’s moving.
Spice Community Shop: This market is a complete “local experience”, I can’t say you should go there, but especially the non-touristy things in the places you go. If you are curious to explore like us, you can wander around.
Only if you are meticulous about food hygiene, you may find some images in the market disturbing, because there are all kinds of meat, fish, chicken sold in the open.. We got a little upset, but of course, there were people who bought the bloody meat in the open air by blowing the flies on them, even though they were tourists like us.. Apart from that, spices are sold everywhere in the market.
HOW TO PLAN A TRIP TO ZANZIBAR I explained in my article, since Stone Town is close to Zanzibar Airport and many of the places to visit, we’re in Zanzibar. We stayed in this vicinity during our first three nights in. That’s why Stone Town was within walking distance of our hotel and we explored it ourselves by wandering around.
The relative locations and hotel zones of places to visit in Zanzibar this way, you decide where you want to stay according to your travel plan.
If you say “My hotel is not close, how will I go” or “I want someone to show and explain such historical places”, Zanzibar’ You can take a personal tour to Stone Town as well as other places to visit in. Such tours may be suitable for those who want to know more than what I have explained here.
Stone Town city tour for a few hours is around $50 per person if you take it on your own.. It will be cheaper if you combine it with other places that I will explain in the rest of the article and travel on the same day.. Or, for example, if you’re staying in Nungwi for your entire trip, but your return flight is in the afternoon, you can combine an airport transfer with a trip to Stone Town.. Because Stone Town is only 8 km away from Zanzibar Airport (you can see the locations of the places I will describe on the map above).
Zanzibar’ If you go to the local people’s market in Istanbul, you can find many types of spices at the cheapest price.. I thought I wouldn’t put a photo of the meat.
Enjoy the tones of blue and meet the red starfish at Blue Safari.
Zanzibar’ The first thing to do is to take a Blue Safari tour to lie on the white beaches of Turkey and be satisfied with the turquoise sea.. On this full-day tour, you sail by traditional Arabian dhow boats to Kwale Island in the south of Zanzibar.
Blue Safari’ On the island of Kwale, where the sea is built, it is highly possible to encounter red starfish, which are the most eye-catching locals of Zanzibar, due to the clear color of the sea.. After taking your photo, don’t forget to put it back into the sea so that the red starfish can continue to live.
Blue Safari with Zanzibar’s famous red starfish You are likely to encounter. (Photo: en.wikipedia.org)
Also Mangrove Lagoon and giant Baobab tree (Baobab Tree) ) are among the beauties you will see in. If you say What is mangrove, it means a collection of plants and forests that grow especially in tropical regions under the influence of tide.. You can also come across mangrove plants on your other excursions in Zanzibar, as “tidal tropical region” describes Zanzibar exactly.
All-day Blue Safari trip
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Although it’s my favorite excursion about Zanzibar, we’re on Blue Safari. Unfortunately we couldn’t go on safari. Even though we went to bed every night hoping “Maybe we can go tomorrow”, we woke up to rainy or likely rainy weather in the morning and therefore the tours were cancelled.. Unfortunately, we had this bad luck for all of our 6 days in Zanzibar, so even though we paid for it in advance, the tour did not depart for any day and in the end, they refunded our money.
So when you go to Zanzibar, you Have fun for me in Blue Safari too
Due to the weather conditions in Zanzibar we could not do Blue Safari, if you go get enough of every shade of blue for me too. (Photo: paradisetours.co.tz)
Hail the Zanzibar red monkeys at Jozani Forest.
Zanzibar also has red monkeys, which are only found in Zanzibar, apart from the red sea stars. The best place to see red monkeys is Jozani Forest.
When you say monkeys, especially if you’ve been to Bali, “Oh, now they attack our food, they steal our bag” you might be worried, don’t. The red colobus monkeys of Zanzibar (red colobus monkey) are very calm and do not do such bad things. They don’t eat bananas anyway because they don’t have enzymes to digest sugar.. It’s not like they can’t trade with you because they eat plant-style things.
Meet the Zanzibar red colobus monkeys in the Jozani Forest (back
In addition to the red monkeys on the half-day Jozani Forest tour, you can also see the mangrove forests that I just mentioned on Blue Safari, such as tangled trees or tangled trees on the ground. when you see short roots, that’s what they are. Ocean waters come to the place where the mangrove trees are, that is, the trees do not eat insects because they are fed with salt water, so these logs are used on the roofs of houses in Zanzibar.. In addition, it was important not to damage the mangrove forests as it protects the settlements from ocean water raids.
Our guide, who toured the Jozani Forest, gave a lot of information, such as the interesting information I explained above.. We went to Jozani Forest with a personal tour (and I advised you to do the same and wrote to me for guide communication), but if you go yourself, you pay 8 dollars per person to enter the forest and the guide is included.. Don’t think of the guide as “They made it up to get a tip” as it means much less to travel without a guide.. The guide who takes you around the forest gives you very good information, if you want, you can tip 1-2 dollars later.
Jozani Forest tour takes half a day, so It is useful to combine it with other nearby attractions.. Since we did the same, I’ll tell you about them and then tell you the total price of the tour for the day.
Mangrove trees look very interesting with their chaotic form.
Take a photo in front of The Rock Restaurant & have fun at Paje Beach.
The best of Zanzibar Paje Beach, one of the most beautiful beaches in the world, and The Rock Restaurant, one of the world’s most interesting restaurants, are an alternative you can combine with a Jozani Forest trip.
Lunch and dinner menus are served at Rock Restaurant. If you are interested, you need to make a reservation in advance, you can tell the person you have agreed with for the driver and guide to arrange your reservation and handle the transportation.. After me, a reader of mine who went to Zanzibar with my advice went to dinner and the prices for food and drink were 50 dollars per person.. You evaluate it accordingly.
If you want to enter the restaurant, you may need to reach the Rock Restaurant on foot or by boat, depending on the time you go and the condition of the sea. owed to status. It was noon when we went, and it was reached by boat, so the sea had not receded.. Since we didn’t plan to eat there, it was enough to just see it from the outside.. These photos we took with the Rock Restaurant behind us, “I’m in Zanzibar!” here are their photos
“I’m in Zanzibar!” photos are a must
If you are going to rest in Paje Beach after seeing Jozani Forest and Rock Restaurant from the outside, I guess the tour they will pick you up from the hotel and finally drop you off will cost around 60 dollars per person. , just because Jozani Forest $50. We didn’t enjoy the beach, it’s a windy beach where water sports are already done.. Instead, we went to one more place, which is just below.
Be a guest at the villagers’ homes in Jambiani Village Tour & have fun at Jambiani Beach.
Yes, we didn’t waste time swimming in Paje Beach, as we love to travel and see and we will spend 3 days in our hotel in Nungwi for 3 days after our Zanzibar holiday.. Instead, we added the nearby Jambiani Village to our plan as the third and last stop of the same day, and planned a full-day Jozani Forest + Rock Restaurant + Jambiani village tour.
Zanzibar’ I don’t know how much we paid per tour since we bought all the excursions in packages in packages, but I think this three-point trip came to around $75 per person.
Meet the poor but very charming locals of Zanzibar on the Jambiani village tour.
A local young boy toured us on the Jambiani village tour, which was made from old twig houses and logs. clogs showed slippers. Then we sat in front of a house and the guide told us about the cure-all herbs while the local children were watching us curiously.. Then we saw where the coconuts were used and of course we drank the water
Little children are very cute, but their poverty and dirty state makes us a little sad, many of them don’t even have shoes.. Maybe it was a touristic activity, but we loved the village tour.. Guides don’t usually have the habit of asking for tips, you can pay 1-2 dollars if you want.. You pay for the village tour when you take a daily tour, and they take care of the rest between them.
