Travelogue Tanzania 2009
Our Programme

31.03.2009 – Day 11 – Zanzibar

After breakfast we are expected by our guide for a Stone Town tour. Originally this was not proposed by our travel agency, we would have spent our entire time on Zanzibar at the beach. We really would have missed something! Good that we asked our agency to include some time in Stone Town.

Our guide was excellent and led us for four or even five hours through the tiny streets and explained and showed us a lot of things. If we had tried to visit Stone Town on ourselves with a guide book we would have seen much less and would not have understood many things we would have seen.

 

Door of the house of Zanzibar’s most famous slave trader. Zanzibar’s wealth was based on the trade with slaves, ivory and spices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The slavery monument at the place of the original slave market. The slaves were not standing in pits but the changes are original ones.

This is one of the rooms where the slaves had to wait for the auction. It is only about a meter high.

"German Houses". Such so called "Plattenbauten" were very common in the German Democratic Republic. These were built as a present of the government of the GDR.

At the end of the tour we visited the "House of Wonders". It used to be administration but today it is a museum. The house has its name due to three miraculous things you could find there: tap water, electricity and even an elevator

The House of Wonders

One of the wonders: an elevator.

view from the House of Wonders over the harbor

and view over Stone Town

The Old Dispensary

Directly after our city tour we get picked up again and drive across the whole island north where we will spend three last nights at the beach (Langi Langi Beach Hotel). We arrive in the afternoon and go into the ocean the first time. The water has almost the temperature of a bath tub.

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