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Full Day Excursion: Stone Town, Historic Spice Farms, and Prison Island Tour in Zanzibar
3.7
7 Ratings
Mjini Magharibi Region
Immerse yourself in the rich history and vibrant culture of Zanzibar with this full-day excursion. Explore the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Stone Town, visit a historic spice farm, and discover the intriguing Prison Island. Don’t miss out on this unforgettable experience!
Immerse yourself in the rich history and vibrant culture of Zanzibar with this full-day excursion. Explore the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Stone Town, visit a historic spice farm, and discover the intriguing Prison Island. Don’t miss out on this unforgettable experience!
Duration:
9 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Jambo Spice Farm - Begin your adventure by exploring the Spice farms and Plantations with our knowledgeable, friendly, and experienced professional tour guide. Travel in our private car to Big Body With Tatata Spice Farm. Enjoy a walking tour through villages and spice plantations, observing farm workers as they climb trees, identify specific…
- Jambo Spice Farm - Begin your adventure by exploring the Spice farms and Plantations with our knowledgeable, friendly, and experienced professional tour guide. Travel in our private car to Big Body With Tatata Spice Farm. Enjoy a walking tour through villages and spice plantations, observing farm workers as they climb trees, identify specific plants, and harvest various barks, allowing you to see, feel, and taste everything.
Additionally, you will witness a guide climbing a coconut tree while singing local songs. Enjoy as much fresh coconut juice as you like, along with a variety of fresh fruits such as bananas, oranges, mangoes, and more. Indulge in as much as you desire. You’ll be adorned with palm-leaf accessories like ties, rings, bracelets, and glasses. At the Spice farms, you’ll have the chance to taste some of Zanzibar’s exotic fruits. These farms are the perfect place to purchase fresh spices directly from the source.
- Stone Town - Later, board a private air-conditioned car to Stone Town City. Delight in walking through one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites and the Cultural Arts Centre of East Africa. The Stone Town City Tour takes you through the historically and architecturally significant town of Zanzibar, rich with a century of history. It includes a visit to the former slave market site, now home to an Anglican church built in 1871, the town market, the Zanzibar Memorial Museum, the House of Wonder built in 1883 (Beit-Al-Ajab), the Old Arab Fort, the Palace Museum, and the Old Indian dispensary (Cultural Center).
- Prison Island - Changuu Private Island - Embark on a trip to Prison Island, just a 30-minute boat ride from Stone Town. Visit Lloyd Mathew’s architecture built in 1893. The island’s restaurant is highly regarded, and the island is home to Aldabra Giant Tortoises. Surrounded by a stunning beach and reef sanctuary, the island is perfect for swimming, snorkeling, and beach relaxation. After the tours, you will be dropped off at your hotel for the night.
- Lukmaan Restaurant - After exploring Stone Town city, enjoy a lunch break at Lukmaan Restaurant or Cape Town Fish Market Zanzibar in Stone Town. These are among the best and most popular restaurants in Zanzibar. You can order local dishes like Pilau, Biriani, or Chinese rice with juice or a bottle of water, or you can choose any recommended restaurant in Stone Town.
What's Included
- Informative, friendly, and experienced professional tour guide
- Complimentary mineral water throughout the tour
- Boat charters and snorkeling gear included (life jacket, mask & flippers)
- Convenient pick-up and drop-off from your hotel in a private, air-conditioned car
- All-inclusive pricing with government taxes, waiting charge, fuel surcharges, and service fees
- Informative, friendly, and experienced professional tour guide
- Complimentary mineral water throughout the tour
- Boat charters and snorkeling gear included (life jacket, mask & flippers)
- Convenient pick-up and drop-off from your hotel in a private, air-conditioned car
- All-inclusive pricing with government taxes, waiting charge, fuel surcharges, and service fees
What's Not Included
- Lunch at Lukmaan Restaurant or Cape Town Fish Market Zanzibar
- International & Local Flights
- Airport Taxes
- Expenses of a personal Nature
- Lunch at Lukmaan Restaurant or Cape Town Fish Market Zanzibar
- International & Local Flights
- Airport Taxes
- Expenses of a personal Nature
Additional Information
A full-day tour of the senses! This tour includes three (3) must visit Places in Zanzibar, which are Stone Town City (The UNESCO World Heritage Sites and Cultural Arts Centre of East Africa) and the Spice Farm known as Big Body With Tatata Spice Farm and we will end our day by exploring the Prison Island - the former prison for slaves and quarantine…
A full-day tour of the senses! This tour includes three (3) must visit Places in Zanzibar, which are Stone Town City (The UNESCO World Heritage Sites and Cultural Arts Centre of East Africa) and the Spice Farm known as Big Body With Tatata Spice Farm and we will end our day by exploring the Prison Island - the former prison for slaves and quarantine station for Zanzibar built by Lloyd Mathews in 1893. It is an absolutely worthwhile experience. Zanzibar is well known for its Heritage Sites and Cultural tours.
Location
Mjini Magharibi Region
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
3.7
(7 Ratings)
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Metteur
Aug 4, 2024
An exellent guide named Rachid. - We met an exellent guide for stonetown tour.He - Rachid-held engaged lectures onhistory and architecture and helped us find a consert we have been lookin for the holw week a TAARAB consert at the academy f musikc.he was totyl engaged and thanks to this comittment we have a rich potrait of zanzibar now and then.As artists we met a fll scale picture of africa arab indian traits in this wonderful new swahili nation.
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Missvenya
Feb 2, 2023
Ally best guide in Zanzibar - This tour is incredible if your into photography is a photographers paradise from lush green of the spice farm to the exotic alleyways of Stonetown to prison island with its azure waters is just stunning. Ally was an incredible guide, I felt it wasn’t a guide with me back a good friend of mine. So knowledgeable, his kind smile just made the day amazing.
If you’re after a tour to see Zanzibar Ally is your man, often when you travel you enjoy the vistas but it’s people you meet that leave lasting impression. Ally was ten out of ten.
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Friedrichklemperer
Sep 28, 2021
Best One On The Island! - We are highly recommend Green Zanzibar Tours for all Germans who wish to visit the exotic Island of Zanzibar. We bought Full Day Tour to Stone Town, Spice Farms and Prison Island it was really really amazing. We satisfied and happy for their Services. we went out for another day to experience the Mnemba Coral Gardens, helping with everything, not expensive Reliable, knowledgeable and timely, superb, well recommended!!!
Khalid speaks German fluently even if has never been in German ️️. He is informative, witty, always smiling and surprisingly young to offer this high level of service. He looked after our safety all the time.
If you will buy trips to Green Zanzibar Tours & Safari Limited you will never regret.
Their WhatsApp number : +255 765 447 879.
We were very much glad and if we will come back to Zanzibar we will take trips from Green Zanzibar Tours & Safari Limited second time!
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Specialkell55
Oct 21, 2022
Not a good tour experience in Zanzibar - This tour did not meet our expectations. We booked the tour through Viator. We were a group of 10 and indicated that in the reservation. They sent a vehicle that was to only seat 10 passengers. This did not include the driver and the tour guide. We had to squeeze into the van, and even still one of the seats to allow people in and out was not working, so people had to climb over the seat.
The spice tour was good, though the description said we would see two locations, we were only taken to one. No second location was offered.
The tour through Stone Town was really just walking through Stone Town with a few things pointed out. We eventually just asked to not continue this part (we were already staying in Stone Town and had seen the much of what was being shown).
We wanted to eat (there apparently was nothing in the schedule that indicated they were planning for us to have time to eat). We were directed to a restaurant were we ate quickly so we could get the boat to prison island.
The trip to the Prison Island was to include snorkeling but no equipment was trough for that. The tour guide told the tour operator that we said we did not want to snorkel. That is not true. I was the lead person in the group but the tour guide never asked me if we were planning to snorkel. I know from the time I booked the tour that some of us were going to snorkel. Plus, the boat ride out to the island did not have any life preservers on it. The guide eventually got some equipment brought to us and those who wanted to snorkel did. However, our feeling for the experience was now not good. The guide seemed to not be aware of what was supposed to happen and was surprised by our asking for things. (We also never got the water that was supposed to be given to us.
I did communicate our concerns to the tour operator, but his response was not sensitive to our concerns and basically stated that we were lying about what WE were experiencing in the tour, that we were being influenced by another tour operator and that the tour did all that was listed in the description. It did not. We are a Christian group looking to enjoy Zanzibar and have nothing to gain from not being truthful about the experience. I do not recommend this tour. You may do better waiting to get there and then hiring one of the independent tour guides. It will not cost you as much and you will get what you expect.
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Kelly_s
Oct 17, 2022
Not a good tour for us in Zanzibar - This tour was a disappointment. We told them there were 10 of us, but didn't realize that we would have to cram the 10 of us, plus the driver and the tour guide into a 10 passenger van, with one of the seats malfunctioning that made it difficult to get in and out of the van for those sitting in the back. Though going to the spice farms was interesting, it was the only part of the tour that was decent. The walk through Stone Town (which, since it was our first time to Zanzibar, we didn't know this part was going to be a walking tour) was uneventful to the point we stopped that tour. When we headed to Prison Island and planning to snorkel the company did not provide any of the equipment that we needed for snorkeling, though it stated in the description that they would. The tour guide eventually was able to send a boat to get some equipment for us, but by that time our whole disposition was not into doing it. Some of us did go ahead and snorkel, but just a short time. The tour guide apparently was a freelance tour guide and was not aware of all of the expectations for the tour. He tried to do the best he could but we were not in the best mood because of the issues. Plus, we never got the bottles of water that was supposed to be with the tour.
There is no meal break designed in the 8 hour tour which did not make sense. Our assumption was that it would be built in, but it would not have happened if we had not insisted on stopping to eat (at the Africa House Restaurant). We had to make our own adjustments to salvage what we could from the tour. And one of the locals stated that this tour is overpriced even if they had fulfilled their promise. Further concerns will be directed to the Viator direction.
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Shonaanne_c
Jul 14, 2022
The trip was not as... - The trip was not as promised. Two spice farms were listed to visit and we only got taken to one which was good but a lot of hussling for money. Stonetown tour disappointing. Guide was nice but seemed reluctant to walk too far. Not enough time. No water provided and we had to request time to eat. Overall disappointing.
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