After a hard days drive, a couple hours in the less than exciting and horribly dingy town of Dar, we jumped on the ferry out to Zanzibar, the Spice Island, where we settled in for a few days of complete R&R on the beautiful white sand beaches. Of course we did do a bit of an educational piece and went for a tour of the spice plantations as well as a quick stop at the old slave market. The fruit on the island is absolutely amazing and for lunch we devoured fresh picked and cut pineapple, jackfruit, oranges and coconut. Amazing the way they cut it with HUGE knives and barely miss their wrists. We were all nervous for them until they handed us the fruit and then we couldn’t stop asking them for more.
Beaches are absolutely gorgeous here and the Curio (tourist) Shop sales guys weren’t too overbearing either. Broke down and got a Henna done just for fun and well, cause I was sitting on the beach just having a cocktail anyway so, hell, why not! Spent one day just walking on the beach, playing in the water, reading and relaxing and the other day about 10 of us went out diving. We went out to a little island on the North East side of Zanzibar (the name fails me at the moment). Water was lovely, coral amazing and the fishies weren’t all that bad either J Saw a green turtle, loads of massive starfish, grouper etc. etc. etc. My favorite was the thing that looked like bad pale pink and off green parlor paper. Think it was a piece of coral. The third day was more of the same – relaxing and completely enjoying ourselves and then it was time to head back to reality and two days of driving to reach the shores of Lake Malawi.
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