If you choose any of our Zanzibar Vacation & holidays you can book the following tour excursions in the "Excursions" section of the reservation form. Pre-booking an excursion saves you loads of time and effort and means that you can get straight into enjoying your holiday. An Excursion can also be booked from your Zanzibar hotel or beach resort, Zanzibar is also known as "The Island of Spices"; whose name evokes a romantic past embalmed in the aroma of cloves, cinnamon, cardamom and lemon grass.This tour starts with a drive through a profusion of greenery in the countryside seeing, smelling and tasting a variety of mouth-watering tropical seasonal fruits, some examples are: jack fruit, pineapple, banana, green coconut (madafu), dourian, love apple (matufaa), litche (shoki-shoki), soursop (mabungo) and starfruit (carambola).Some of the spices are cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper, turmeric and nutmeg - are as exotic as the flavor. A full tour involves much more than spices and you will also have a chance to see the iodine plant, heena bush, ylang-ylang, the lipstick tree, cocoa and coffee trees. The tour
also includes a visit to the Kidichi Persian Baths built in 1850 by Seyyid Said bin Sultan for his Persian wife Princess Sheherezade granddaughter of the Shah of Persia; you will also visit the Maruhubi Palace Ruins built by the third Sultan of Zanzibar Seyyid Barghash for his 99 concubines

.1. STONE TOWN TOUR - This four hour guided tour begins at your hotel from where you will walk or be driven to the historic city market opened in 1904. Here you can see and buy a huge variety of tropical fruits and spices. You will also feel the pulse of Zanzibar and hear different dialects being spoken by people at the market. From the market the tour takes you to the Anglican Cathedral of Christ, built by Bishop Steers in 1874 on the site of the slave market. You will see the actual rooms where the slaves were kept.

2. SPICE TOUR - This is the four hours guided tour that takes you first to the Maruhubi Palace Ruins and then on to Kidichi. There you can see the Persian Baths built by Seyyid Said Bin Sultan, the first Sultan of Zanzibar for his wife the Princess Shehrzard(the grand-daughter of the Shah of Persia). You will then go to the Kizimbani spice plantations. Here you can see, touch, taste and smell the wide variety of medicinal plants, fruits and a spice, for which Zanzibar is famous.

3. SAFARI BLUE - The excursion includes refreshment, top quality snorkelling equipment with guides and instructors, home made fruit juices, a full Zanzibar seafood lunch seated at teak picnic tables, fruit tasting, coffee and Amarula liqueur. They will also take you for sailing in a traditional sailing canoe or "Ngalawa". We round the day off by returning to Fumba by traditional lanteen sail.

4. JOZANI FOREST - This is a guided tour of three hours and takes you to the Jozani natural forest. The smaller trees and shrubs make several subcanopies under the highest canopy. You will follow the nature Trail, which includes a boardwalk in the mangrove forest area. Jozani is a habitat for many species of animals including Sykes monkeys, Vervet monkeys and the famous Kirk's Colobus monkey, an endemic species of Red Colobus that is found only in Zanzibar.

5. PRISON ISLAND - This is a relaxing half-day tour on this beautiful Island just a short distance off Zanzibar town. This historical island was formerly owned by an Arab and was never used as a jail but as a quarantine for slaves. It was later bought by General Mathews. The jail which still stands was built in 1883 and hence the name Prison Island. The island offers stunning views of Zanzibar town and has a beautiful beach from where you can swim and snorkelling. On the island you will also see the giant tortoises.

6. DOLPHIN SAFARI - This excursion is operated by "Adventure Afloat, African Boat Safaris" And requires a full day. The excursion starts from Fumba, southwest Zanzibar and takes you to see the dolphins, the coral reefs and the idyllic sand-banks and Islands of the Menai Bay Conservation area. The fleet of traditional hand made Dhows are beautifully finished and maintained and are fully equipped with life-jackets Conforming to EC standards, waterproof bags, first aid kits, marine VHF radios and new professionally maintained engines as well as traditional lanteen sail.

7. NORTH COAST - this is a full day guided tour that takes you to Nungwi via Mvuleni where you can visit the ruins of the Portuguese Barracks. At Nungwi you will find the white sandy beaches where you can swim and relax. We will take to see the boatyard where the traditional dhows are built. There is a wide choice of restaurants where you can have lunch.

8. PEMBA: VUMA WIMBI BEACH - Situated in the north of Pemba is one of the longest beaches on the East African coastline, coconut-lined with bright and shiny white sand. On the way to Vumba Wimbi beach you can visit Ngezi Forest Reserve which was established in the 1950's as the last remaining example of the Island's unique flora and fauna. Ngezi has it's own animal and plant species which do not occur anywhere else in the world such as the Pemba Flying Fox, a friendly fruit eating bat with beautiful chestnut coloured fur, the Pemba Vervet Monkey and an antelope not much larger than a hare to name but a few.

9. NORTH COAST TRIP (NUNGWI) - This is a full day tour to the northern tip of Zanzibar Island to enjoy swimming and sun bathing on the beautiful sun white sand beach,enroute there are several stops including Mkokotoni fish market, the largest market in the Northern Region,Fukuchanin and Mvuleni Portuguese ruins .Nungwi is known for its Dhow building industry. It is fascinating to see the Dhow at various stages of construction. The hard wood used in the construction is grown locally.

10. MASAIL ISLAND - Located on west side, south of Pemba Island has a very nice beach, also is a wonder for snorkeling and diving also you will take more chance to visit the forest. In the forest you will see how water fills up the gape but never see how water will be full because there also no way to pass.
We offer Zanzibar Excursion from Stone Town to North Coast or East Cost and Pemba Island. Relax on the sun in the Indian Ocean beaches while also start with Spice Tour and Dolphin Tour.