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Zanzibar Holiday Water Sports

...features Excursions Like Diving, Snorkeling, Fishing, Safari Blue and Dolphin Tour

The Zanzibar holiday water sports guide features exotic paradisiacal shores, rugged coral and limestone scarps form a sheltered backdrop to tranquil, caster sugar beaches that slope gently down into crystal clear waters, abundant with marine life. Tall coconut palms and stalking Pandanus cast their wondering shadows over the white sands and swaying hammocks. This tropical scenario is just simply breath-taking. This is what a lot of people come to the islands for.

Mangapwani is rather remote and therefore more peaceful and less visited, and its golden sands - fringed with palm trees and screw Pines - have the tranquil atmosphere of a lost paradise. Further up, on the northern tip of the island, is the popular Nungwi Peninsular, with its boats building industry, coral lagoons and Turtle Aquarium. On the southern tip of the island are some remote and rugged beaches, yet there are adventures and activities here to suit all tastes - including the Dolphin safari at Kizimkazi, which lies within the Menai Bay Conservation Zone.

Zanzibar holiday photo: Guests and instructors on a diving trip.

Diving from a boat in the clear, blue ocean off the island is one of the most exhilarating experiences to be had on a holiday to Zanzibar. The visibility is usually very good, the water warm and the marine life diverse and innumerable: Swaying weeds and soft coral all seethe with minute organisms that are food for the larger species. Shoals of fish weave and dart around in kaleidoscopic ballets, and playful octopus, Cuttlefish, Sea-Urchins, and Sea Cucumbers can be seen at every point.

Zanzibar Holiday Sightseeing

...features Tours like Stone Town, Spice, Jozani Forest, Village, Nungwi, Prison Island, Slave Trade and more!

The Zanzibar holiday sightseeing guide features the most prestigious of excursions in both islands. A visit to the ruins and old buildings is a voyage of discovery through time. The journey can take one from Stone Town’s narrow streets of Zanzibar and coral-rag walls - clad with rank lichens and sun-faded plaster, to tended gardens and lily-ponds; overlooked by towering pillars who stand like sentinels of the past, guarding the hidden tombs of time gone by. The islands' tradition and culture, natural reserves, even people's hospitality are also among our holiday attractions.

Zanzibar holiday photo: A guest on a Jozani Forest Tour!

As you stroll through Stone Town , you will find several shops selling wood carvings, Zanzibari chests, clothes, spices, jewellery, paintings and antiques. Most of the gift shops are situated along Kenyatta Road in Shangani, and Gizenga Street behind the Old Fort. Tourists are advised not to buy any products related to protected species on the islands, such as sea shells and turtles. A holiday to Zanzibar would be incomplete without visiting these souvenir shops.

The People of Zanzibar

...features Watumbatu, Wahadimu, Wadiba, Wapemba & Bantuism.

Zanzibari people are a mixture of mixtures, no group of people can claim to be more indigenous or having more rights than others; the deciding factor for civilized man is not ethnicity, what race one belongs to, but nationality, one's birthplace or one's choice of a country to belong to, to die for if need be. Neither is it a question of who came first. An American is an American whether he is descended from Red Indians who footed it from Siberia into Alaska across the Bering Strait 20 to 40 thousand years BC., or he was uprooted from his African soil and deposited in chains on the inhospitable shores of the New World a mere three hundred years ago, or indeed of his own volition jetted down in comparative comfort to claim the asylum and, in due course, the citizenship of the most powerful and most advanced nation in the world. Whether he is black, white, brown or yellow, his hair woolly or silken, black or golden, his eyes almond shaped or popping, his nose flat or curving, are matters of little significance to any but fools. The skeletons of all are much the same.

Zanzibar holiday photo: A group of Zanzibari women and children strolling across the beach.

All that have been said about the make-up of Zanzibaris applies with equal force to all the peoples of the East African Coast from southern Somalia, down the Mwambao of Kenya and the Mrima of Tanganyika to the isles of Comoros, wherever Swahili in its various dialects is spoken as a mother-tongue. They are all mixtures of mixtures, predominantly Bantu and Arab, but with undeniable doses of the various races and mixtures of races which infuse the inhabitants of the lands that are washed by the western portion of the Indian Ocean. It is the characteristic of being able to imbibe culture and genes, without disturbing its basic identity that gives confidence in the continued virility of the Zanzibari nationality unperturbed by a multiplicity of ethnicities.