10 Best Places to Visit in Zanzibar Island

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10 Best Places to Visit in Zanzibar Island
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Jozani Forest

• The Jozani Forest is a conservation area
  established in the 1960s in the core of Zanzibar
  Island. Covering an area of 50 square kilometers,
  this reserve also includes a section of the
  Jozani Chwaka National Park and was set up for
  the conservation of the kirks red colobus
  monkey, a beautiful and rare primate. The forest
  is a great place to encounter many indigenous
  varieties of flora and fauna, including the
  Zanzibari Red Colobus Monkey unique to Unguja
  this species of wild monkey live on despite the
  best efforts of the former British rulers to
  bring it to extinction.

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Stone Town

• Stone Town is the old city and cultural heart of
  Zanzibar, little changed in the last 200 years.
  It is a place of winding alleys, bustling
  bazaars, mosques and grand Arab houses whose
  original owners vied with each other over the
  extravagance of their dwellings. Places to Visit
  in stone town are The Old Dispensary, The
  market, Livingstones House, The Peace Memorial
  Museum, The House of Wonders, The Arab Fort and
  lots more.

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Prison Island

• Changuu Island (also known as Kibandiko, Prison
  or Quarantine Island) is a small island 5.6 km
  north-west of Stone Town, Unguja, Zanzibar. visit
  the tortoise sanctuary, which contains a large
  colony of giant tortoise imported from the
  Seychelles in the late 19th century. The average
  weight of these creatures is 200 kg, and many of
  them are said to be over 150 years old. There
  will be a chance to touch the tortoise and take
  photos. The island is also a home to a colony of
  beautiful peacocks.

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Spice Markets

• Even those people who've only dreamed of visiting
  Zanzibar have usually heard its nickname 'The
  Spice Island'. Sooner or later every visitor to
  Zanzibar will be offered a 'spice tour' - a trip
  to the farmlands just outside Stone Town to see
  aromatic plants and herbs growing wild or
  cultivated in kitchen gardens. Guides take you on
  a walking tour of the villages and plantations at
  Kizimbani or Kindichi, picking bunches of leaves,
  fruit and twigs from bushes and inviting you to
  smell or taste them to guess what they are.

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House of Wonders

• The House of Wonders or Palace of Wonders (in
  Arabic Beit-al-Ajaib) is a landmark building in
  Stone Town, Zanzibar. It is the largest and
  tallest building of Stone Town and occupies a
  prominent place facing the Forodhani Gardens on
  the old town's seafront, in Mizingani Road. It
  was inaugurated in the early 1800s has permanent
  exhibits on aspects of the Swahili and Zanzibari
  culture as well as the East African environment.

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Dolphin Tours

• The most popular dolphin spotting location in
  Zanzibar is in Kizimkazi village located on the
  Southern coast of Zanzibar Island where you can
  see both bottle-nose and humpback dolphins.
• The shallow coastal waters around Kizimkazi are
  favorite hangout for dolphins. Best time for the
  Dolphin tour is, very early in the morning!
• The dolphin trip can be combined with Jozani
  Forest, as the forest is on the way to Kizimkazi.

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Old Fort

• The Old Fort is one of the prominent visitor
  attractions in Stone Town, and its courtyard as
  been adapted to serve as a cultural center with
  curio shops selling tourist-oriented merchandise
  such as tingatinga paintings it also has an
  open-air amphitheater where live dance and music
  shows are held most evenings, a restaurant, and a
  tourist information desk. It is also the main
  venue used for large events such as the Festival
  of the Dhow Countries (also known as the Zanzibar
  International Film Festival) and the Sauti za
  Busara.

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Pemba Island

• Pemba Island, known as "The Green Island" in
  Arabic is an island forming part of the Zanzibar
  Archipelago, lying within the Swahili Coast in
  the Indian Ocean.
• Pemba is a magical island. Unlike Unguja
  (Zanzibar), Pemba is hilly. Gentle, undulating
  hills and deep verdant valleys are all covered
  with a dense cover of clove, coconut, mango and
  other fruit and crop plantations. A more fertile
  land is difficult to imagine.

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Old Dispensary

• Also known as Ithnashiri Dispensary, is a
  historical building in Stone Town. The Dispensary
  is one of the most finely decorated buildings of
  Stone Town and a symbol of the multi-cultural
  architecture and heritage of the city. Its wooden
  carved balconies, with stained glass decorations,
  are of Indian influence the main structure is
  built with traditional Zanzibari coral rag and
  limestone, but covered with stucco adornments of
  European neo-classical taste. The inside of the
  building is just as sophisticated, with a covered
  courtyard and carved bridges connecting the
  floors. It has a small museum about the history
  of Zanzibar.

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Zanzibar Butterfly Centre

• Along the main road about 1km before the Jozani
  Forest entrance is this butterfly centre, one of
  the largest butterfly enclosures in East Africa,
  with a netted garden and tours where you can see
  the life cycle stages of the butterfly, including
  some beautiful cocoons. The Centre is a popular
  Zanzibar tourist attraction featuring a live
  display of Tanzanian butterflies.

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