BYE BYE ZANZIBAR

 
 

                                                                                                                  8th May 2015

        

             The last tourist-day for us in the island was about to beginning and we decided to do something different: we wanted to go on the Spice Tour of Zanzibar ($40 each). The duration of this activity was about half a day, so it was the perfect plan for us: We just had to go there and the evening return to the hotel, pack our suitcases, do the last walking through the streets and prepare ourselves to take a flight with the duration of 30h to reach Nepal.

                    At 11.30 a bus was waiting for us just in front of our hotel to go on that tour, which started at  Kidichi Village.

 First of all, we visited the  most famous ruins of Zanzibar:  The Persian Baths. They were built in 1850 by Seyyid Said bin Sultan. (They are referred to as "Persian" because their construction was commissioned to Shirazi architects. The word "Hamamni" means " baths").

 

 

                After seeing this magnificent and extraordinary buildings, we were led to the Kidichi Village, were the spices were waiting for us. But before talking about food or any kind of its products, let me tell you what we did. 

           We first saw the whole village in about an hour or so. We saw its big doors, streets and people. I will now make a brief introduction of this place: Kidichi is located at the highest altitude in Zanzibar (110m) above sea level. It´s very close to most Spice farms in Zanzibar and located in the most fertile land, that is the reason why most of the Sultans plantations were around this place. 

       What we did next was to entered some  tents, huts or similar, where there were some monitors with species and plants. They explained to us the procedence of those foods and a little indication of how could we use them in cooking.

 

 

          In this tour, we found lots of spices! As an example, we saw vanilla, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, cumin, garlic, ginger, coriander, oregano and more! We also saw some fruits as: banana, pineapple, jack fruit, custard fruit, oranges, star fruit, tangerine, passion fruit, mango, avocado, pear, papaya, grape fruit and many others.

 

                  Just after finishing this amazing and surprising activity, we shared lunch with our tour partners, they were so nice! 

            At 6pm aprox. we arrived to the hotel, we packed our bags for the next day and for dinner time, we drove to Obama Beach to spend there our last night in the beach while eating typical food. The temperauture was incredible and the people so kind... We didn´t wanna leave it!

  

 

Night, night!!

  xx