Free tour

Free Tour of historic and unique town in Zanzibar(Stone Town Zanzibar)

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Zanzibar

Duration: 2 hours and 45 minutes

Languages: English

Guru: Ali

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Registered on 28 May 2022

Hello. I am Ali. I am a tour guide for more than 10 years now. I love this job and its a huge pleasure for me to meet with differrent peoples from every corner of the world, inorder to share different experiences, changing ideas and new innovations but not forget you will get the history of our beautiful Zanzibar. Apart from being a certified tour guide by tourism authorities in Zanzibar. Ali is an environmental expert, bachelor degree holder on environmental planning and management but also diploma in agriculture and irrigation technician. So its an opportunity for all of us to discus about our environments if you will be interested, especial the issue of climatic change and global warming as you know Zanzibar is islands. Thank you and you are most welcome.

Free reservation and cancellation

Pay-what-you-want tour, no set price, reservation and cancellation are free

Tour description

In this walking tour, we will cover the most visited tourist attractions of Stone Town.
Note that the Stone Town tour is one of the tours which can not make you tired since we walk under the three-storie buildings all over the town.
First, you will visit the old local market which was built in early 1900 by the Sultan of Zanzibar.
Within this market, you will observe how it was planned with all cooking products available within it and how busy it is never forget populated with different kinds of people.
Then we will pass through different kinds of Zanzibar doors made by local peoples. This kind of door came into circulation in the early 1800. There are a different kind and each kind has something special within it which identify the nature of the doors. The curving of the doors explains the history of different things.
Followed by the former slave market: Zanzibar was the center of the slave trade for east African countries.
So this site is the heart of the slave trade, inside it, there is an Anglican cathedral church that acts as a symbol of the slave trade.
Together we will navigate through the old beautiful buildings with narrow paved streets with the only path for walking and bikes.
Also, we will visit the old fort or Arab fort but also other people call it the Portuguese fort, it was built in late 1600 by the Portuguese and finished by Arabs in 1700.
Then we will finish with the heart of stone town which is forodhani park or seafood night market.

What are you going to visit and see during the tour:

Local market/Spice markets
Former slave market
Zanzibar doors
Old fort
Forodhani Park/Seafood night market
Indian ocean
House of wonder
Art and crafts (Wooden carving and architecture)
Local paintings
Soveniour shops.

You are most welcome because its human right to the people to have fun,enjoying but also discover new things like foreign cultures, architectures. Come and meet with Ali.

Thank you very much.

Highlights

What will we see on this tour?

Meeting point:

R5QV+8W4 Darajani Primary School, Zanzibar, Tanzania

I will be at DARAJANI SOUK, find the Dr. Samia Suluhu Hassan Gate, near by Ala Noor Restaurant and Jewel of Zanzibar.(at car parking) Wearing orange t-shirt with a cap. You will find me there. Check on the pin point in map.

Free entry

Zanzibar Spice Community Shop

Here is the starting point of the tour. From here i will expain in briefly about Zanzibar and Tanzania in general. Secondly is the explaination of Darajani local market and have a walk inside the local market.

Outside visit

Old Slave Market/Anglican Cathedral

This is the former slave market site. Within this area you will get chance to hear the history of slsve trade in East Africa. Than visiting the church, the statute and finish with slave chambers. This will happen if you will need to enter in or otherwise you will listen on the history without entering and than move on with other places.

Outside visit

Jaws Corner

This is just a place where by peoples especially men are going there for sitting, socializing with others, having coffee, watching tv but also playing dominoes, here are among the centres of stone town.

How much does this tour cost?

Free tours do not have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end the amount they consider appropriate (amounts usually range from €10 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).