Tours & Activities in Zanzibar City

If you're a local foodie while traveling, this Stone Town food tour is a must! We'll stroll through a World Heritage Site and taste traditional delicacies.

Stone town is the birthplace of Zanzibar history, religions, and cultures. It is the beating heart of Zanzibar as it played a very important meeting point throughout the centuries for different races of people. It was here the journey for the expedition of the discoveries for the source of the Nile river began, missionaries, sailors and slave traders have left their marks here. the evidence of their legacy is still seen in the populations, the cultures, and the architectures

Stone town walking tour takes you to the heyday when Zanzibar was the commercial empire in east Africa as the center for slave trade, the land of spices, and the gateway to Africa

While walking in stone town you will see the vibrancy of cultures, religions and the architecture that form landmark buildings of Zanzibar such as the old fort, sultan palace, the Anglican church, and catholic church, the house of wonder and the birthplace of freedy mercury as you visit his home.

The walking tour covers some of the most important historical parts of Stone town with historical significance in Zanzibar history together with a features contributed the formation of Zanzibar history

• Former slave market site now Anglican church(museum in stone town)

• A visit to Darajani market which is the central market in Zanzibar to see varieties of foodstuffs produced in Zanzibar inside the market sections together with a local interactions and activities of Zanzibaris in the market

•  Explore the Carved wooden door once in use as symbol of status for the owner of the house that shows his richness and high esteem in the society 

• Deep dive into stone town narrow alleyways to witness the beauty of differents architectures designed and made in stone town

• Heading to the northern side of Stone town dominated with landmark buildings of Zanzibar such as 

1. Former Zanzibar Sultan Palace
2. Old Dispensary 
3. Old Custom House
4. House of Wonder 
5. Old Arab Fort 
6. Forodhani Garden(Night Food Market) 

• Explore the streetscape of Stone town as you walk down the street and see the faces that represent the cosmopolitan in Zanzibar

• A Visit to Freedy Mercury House(A home where Freedy Mercury spent his childhood memory in Zanzibar)

• Saint Joseph Cathedral(AN Example of Romanesque architecture in Zanzibar architecture) 

• Jaws Corner(The heart of stone town and a place for local people to have a conversation and socializing)

• Africa House Hotel(Former British Club)

If you love shopping and want to buy souvenirs, the stone town has plenty of shops to complete your needs
The tour end at Africa house as the final stop 

In this walking tour, we will cover the most visited tourist attractions of Stone Town.
Note that the Stone Town tour is one of the tours which can not make you tired since we  walk under the three-storie buildings all over the town.
First, you will visit the old local market which was built in early 1900 by the Sultan of Zanzibar.
Within this market, you will observe how it was planned with all cooking products available within it and how busy it is never forget populated with different kinds of people.
Then we will pass through different kinds of Zanzibar doors made by local peoples. This kind of door came into circulation in the early 1800. There are a different kind and each kind has something special within it which identify the nature of the doors. The curving of the doors explains the history of different things.
Followed by the former slave market: Zanzibar was the center of the slave trade for east African countries.
So this site is the heart of the slave trade, inside it, there is an Anglican cathedral church that acts as a symbol of the slave trade.
Together we will navigate through the old beautiful buildings with narrow paved streets with the only path for walking and bikes.
Also, we will visit the old fort or Arab fort but also other people call it the Portuguese fort, it was built in late 1600 by the Portuguese and finished by Arabs in 1700.
Then we will finish with the heart of stone town which is forodhani park or seafood night market.

What are you going to visit and see during the tour:

• Local market/Spice markets
• Former slave market
• Zanzibar doors
• Old fort
• Forodhani Park/Seafood night market
• Indian ocean
• House of wonder
• Art and crafts (Wooden carving and architecture)
• Local paintings
• Soveniour shops.

You are most welcome because its human right to  the people to have fun,enjoying but also discover new things like foreign cultures, architectures. Come and meet with Ali. 

 
Thank you very much.

Free Walking Tour around Stone Town is architecture enthusiasts highlighting the variety of buildings covering Indian, Arabic, Gothic, Serecenic and Swahili Styles.
As amazing as you will be by Arab Style houses with their inner courtyards next to the filigree wooden balconies. When you visit Stone Town also you will see very famous Zanzibar coved doors that Grace the front of almost every building of note and which style has been copied all over the world.
Now Stone Town is Word Heritage Site by UNESCO, among the many buildings of interest that should visit, are:

• Former Slave Market
• House of Wonders
• The Old Fort and Formerly 
• The Sultan Palace 

Stone toun tour ' we walk through
different historical place and see how the Tow  has changed from the last century to the present time, we have many things to see and learn in the Tow of Zanzibar. On the prison island ' We are going to see the tortoise 'a house was built by first British minister of Zanzibar' an old house was built as a part of jail, isolation, quarantine and also a harbour used for loading and unloading slaves, Village tour and ox wagon ' It's a nice tour we can have enough time to see and visit schools, village life how local peoples lives and also you will enjoy getting on Bullock. Sand bank picnic' Very funny full of seafood and fruits also you can do sunbathing and swimming. Spice tour ' We will have time to see and learn difference types of spices and trees and how Zanzibarian peoples using for the daily life and also how they grow up.

l also organize SAFARI and CLIMBING KILIMANJARO MOUNTAIN.

" Offers Free Wi-Fi "

I know it's difficult Tasks/Job to make Humanbein Smile, Happy, Satisfy '100% ; But at least l will try my Best even 80%

I ALSO DO TAXI SERVICES IN ZANZIBAR.

PLEAS  BE UPDATE  TO RESPOND MESSAGES  UNLESS  APPOINTMENT  WILL BE MISSING AND I WILL NOT WAIT MORE THE 20 MINUTES AT THE APPOINTMENT POINT 

Village Free Walking tour' ls very interesting amazing tour you will be able to meet with different people's society got to know many people and share ideas, meet with locals children at school, and also in the village street will see how locals lives for the daily life.
End of our tour we will get lunch local food every thing fresh tastes with coconut flavours and spiced catch of the day.

IMPORTANT  NOTICE  DO NOT OFFER AT SCHOOL  OR VILLAGERS  sweet/candy/cash. If you feel to offer somethings it's good to offer them school materials' books, shoes, pen, pencil, calculator, uniforms or clothes or any.
You can bring/buy somewhere very cheap price  and gift to them.

Saturday and Sunday no School 😉 . 

               MANY THANKS TO ALL GURUWalk TOURISTS
Who really got to the points of what they were supposed to offer l am getting so many people brings some stuff for students.
       thanks a lot 

Teachers and students are always happy and welcome more tourists to visit them share ideas and culture.
 
If any one want to teach at school in the classroom please inform us earlier Volunteer acceptable from any country 

The Stone Town of Zanzibar Island is one of the world heritage sites which contains a lot of memories of the past.
It was announced in the year 2000 it's mostly dating back to the 14 century when by many countries got through mainly reasons for Spices. The Stone Town had a deep port and was easy to cross by using a dhow from Middle Eastern Europe and far from China and japans which got high value at the time, therefore, all the memories from Swahili city-states Bantu migration who image along the east coast of Africa still some of them exist. However, Zanzibar island in stone town was dominated by Oman Arabs for different periods called Sultan and at the moment Zanzibar was under British doctorate in the year 1890 all the things which happened made the cultures of the Stone Town of Zanzibar today.

During the tour, we will visit:

• The Former Slave Market
• Old Fort
• Old customs
• The magnificent wooden curved door
• Architectural design
• Forodhan Garden
• Darajani market

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