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Stone Town Tour - Highlights
This
begins with a visit to
Zanzibar
’s colorful market. Alive with the
buzz of locals bartering fresh vegetables and baskets of tropical fruit, amongst
the heady smell of Jack fruit (amongst many other exotic fruits) we continue
on to the site of a cathedral
built in 1874. The cathedral
signifies a potent time in
Zanzibar’s history and stands on the sight of a past slave market. Abolished
in 1873 by decree of the Sultan of Zanzibar, the cathedral’s high altar stands
on the exact site of the whipping post that was in the market.
From here we visit the residence of the late Sultan of Zanzibar, ‘Tip
Tip House’, the Old Fort, ‘
Peoples
Palace
’ and the House of Wonders’, full of intrigue from days of long ago.
The tour ends with a stroll down the narrow streets of the old stone
town, the heart of
Zanzibar
’s vivacious history.
 
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