ZANZIBAR EXCURSIONS - Spice tours – 3 Hours tour.
Its primary objective is to give you a complete picture as to why this beautiful island is known as "Spice Island"
Our tour starts with a drive through a profusion of greenery in the countryside seeing, smelling and tasting a variety of spices and mouth-watering tropical seasonal fruits such as jack fruit, pineapple, banana, green coconut juice, dourian,
love apple, litche, soursop etc.
Spices are cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper, turmeric, nutmeg - are as exotic as the flavour….etc.
A full tour involves much more than spices and you will also have a chance to see the iodine plant, heena bush, ylang-ylang, the lipstick tree, cocoa, and coffee trees.
The tour also includes a visit to
- Kidichi Persian Baths built in 1850 by Seyyid Said bin Sultan for his Persian wife Princess Sheherezade granddaughter of the Shah of Persia.
- Maruhubi Palace Ruins built by the third Sultan of Zanzibar Seyyid Barghash for his 99 concubines.
- Dr Livingstone House built in 1860 for Sultan Majid. Dr David Livingstone lived here before commencing his last journey to the mainland interior.