Zanzibar, so far.

Posted in Travel by Dom on March 29th, 2008

Stone town, right now. That’s the historic part of Zanzibar town, the capital of Zanzibar. Heading to the after dark fish market for dinner again; probably to get tuna and lobster and prawns on skewers and sugar cane juice with lime. The food here is amazing. Swahili is a mix of so many different languages and it really seems like the people here are too, tho it’s mostly muslim so there aren’t many bars. That was a bit dissappointing considering I’ve a craving for draft beer but otherwise it’s pretty cool. Everyone seems real kind and helpful and I like how uninterested in tourists the children are here as compared to Malawi. I think maybe just because there are so many tourists always here. This is the first place I’ve been that’s got those crazy and confusing narrow alleyways everywhere. It’s pretty cool. It also seems famous for their doors, they have these awesome spiky bolts to hold the boards together. They’re fantastic. This place is also famous for their coffee and tea. I’ve spent a hours hanging out in this one intersection called Jaws Corner sipping the coffee and playing bao. Good times.

Went on a spice tour today where we saw things like ginger, nutmeg and vanilla. There were some others but I don’t remember them right now. Nutmeg, it’s crazy looking in the fruit. Haley just informed me that I should have got some of the vanilla extract because it was so cheap here and relatively impossible to get elsewhere.

Tomorrow we’re heading north to Kendwa beach, hang out there for a bit and then backtrack all the back to Luviri. It’s been a good time so far, I’m sure it will continue.