Zanzibar = Paradise

Not to mention sleeping in beds!

We ferried here from Dar-es-Salaam yesterday, after a night a Mikadi Beach on the coast. I met an acrobatics teacher with his troop of gymnasts doing a performace at mikadi beach and we got chatting about gymnastics for ages. I showed them a few videos from my gym too. I almost wished I had an extra day in Dar so I could have visited their community centre where they train, but the Ferry was already booked.

Highlights of the past few days on Zanzibar…

-Learning to Scuba dive! Swimming with so many fish and a guitar shark! Even if the instructor did insist on walking around in his Speedos…

-Drinking the evening away after Rod & Alice announced they had just got engaged!

-Volleyball on the beach.

- Eating out at local back-street restaurants and buying beer from rastas in a tin shack shop.

- Drinking (again) and learning drinking games from lizzie, who has a wealth of knowledge on the subject.

-Generally doing absolutely nothing on the beach and in the sea.

We spent the last day in Stone Town, a town with a very obvious Arabic influence away from the beaches and on the south side of the island. Stone Town was made up of loads of narrow, cobbled, higgledy-piggledy streets with low hanging electrical cables and stone buildings and was too easy to get lost in. We visited the slave museum and the site of one of the biggest slave markets in Africa which was really interesting.

That night we went out to a huge food market with stalls selling all types of meat, seafood, pizza/omelette concoctions and sugar cane juice. It was crazy busy because it was a local holiday too. We stopped in to the Freddie Mercury bar on the way home for a bit of Queen themed drinking at a memorial bar celebrating his birthplace. I love Zanzibar!

written by  JL1 on January 10, 2011 from Zanzibar, Tanzania
from the travel blog: African Travels
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