More Zanzibar - Blogabond

We spent a couple more nights in Zanzibar. The highlights being:
-Diving with a huge turtle

-More banana-coladas

-A very boozy night out where I got my hands on some terrible white wine, made a dance floor with Jessica, got a approached by some Massai Men (thanks, but no thanks mate!) and ended up having a midnight swim out to some local fishermans boats so we could practice bombing of the top deck.

With a dirty white wine headache we had to pack up and move on to Stonetown which is the capital/principle city of Zanzibar. It has a massive Arabic influence and sort of reminded me of Morocco. We spent the day getting lost down side streets and eating some incredible food (Zanzibar is famous for its old spice trade). We also visited the site of the last remaining slave market in Africa which was really interested and made me realise how little I actually know about slavery... must find a book to read.

Stone Town

The source of the dodgy tummy

Meg in a Slave Cell

In the evening we went to the local food market. The food was out of this world I had BBQ tuna and prawn and falafal, then I had a Zanzibar Pizza ( a cross between a pizza and an omlette) and then had to be rolled back to the hostel. The downside to all the delicious food is, without going into detail, we have all spent the last with dodgy tummies. This has been particularly interesting and quite a bonding experience because we spent 3 days on the road in the middle of bloody nowhere with no bathrooms.

written by

lizziecarver on November 21, 2010 from Zanzibar, Tanzania

from the travel blog: Backpacking... it's not as fun as Insurance

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