Zanzibar Beach Holiday

A cluster of islands off of Africa’s east coast, Zanzibar is home to beautiful white-sand beaches with sapphire waters, a rich history, and even hidden rainforests.

It’s popular for honeymooners who want to combine a safari in mainland Tanzania with a relaxing beach getaway. Beach honeymoons remain one of the most enduringly popular types of honeymoons around the Tanzania country, and it’s not hard to understand why. They’re relaxing, romantic, and exotic; a trip away to a white sandy dunes is the perfect excuse to cuddle up and watch the sunset together for your first evening of marital bliss.

The beauty of a beach honeymoon is that there are a huge number of locations around the world to choose from, and there’s bound to be somewhere to suit all budgets. If you’re planning a nearby beach honeymoon in Zanzibar some of the top beach honeymoon destination names closer to home include Bwejuu, Michamvi Beach, Nungwi Beach, Kendwa Beach e.t.c. Each of these is home to miles of beautiful beaches.

Stone Town tour in Zanzibar is an outstanding private guided walking tour. We can arrange the pickup from your hotel and your return. The tour takes 3 hours whereby tourists will get opportunity to discover historical sites and learn who the Zanzibar island people are together with their daily activities. The tour can either commence at the House of Wonders or near the Darajani City Market and covers all the historical areas and monuments.

Together with your guide you will be taken to the House of Wonders (Beit-al-Ajaib) which is nowadays known as the National Museum of Zanzibar (rebuilt 1883), the Arab Fort which is also known as the Old Fort, while you are passing along through bazaar streets you will go ahead towards the Freddie Mercury house, the old slave market, various curio shops including the memories of Zanzibar, fruit market, spice market, etc. Without forgetting the Zanzibar curved doors which are the ones that decorate the Stone Town.

The Spice Tour in Zanzibar is a 3-hour guided tour. Tourists will get opportunity to discover a lot of things including tropical fruits, local spices and herbs, and some of the rarely species of other plants from different vegetation. It is just more than a tour as tourists may get unique experiences to prove why Zanzibar is called the Spice Island. Visitors should expect to see spices including Zanzibar’s cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, cardamom, curry, pepper, tamarind, ginger, menthol and many other spices and herbs brought by the sultans of Oman across the Indian Ocean.

Our guides will give you the detailed descriptions of what the various plants are used for, though not all of them are for food, others used for medicine. The “neem” tree leaves for example were traditionally used as a cure for malaria and indigestion, the iodine tree produces a deep red sap used to fight infection and wounds.

The Dolphin Tour in Zanzibar is an half-day tour which is done at Kizimkazi fishing village, on the south coast of the island. The main attraction in this tour is being able to swim close to the dolphin, for those who are lucky they can even get to play with them for couple of hours. The village is home to several schools of fish and bottle-nosed dolphins and Humpback dolphins, which are found just few meters from the beach. Kizimkazi is also known for its historical site of the old mosque which was built in the 12th century.

Please understand that this tour is subject to change when the weather conditions are not fair. If the weather is not suitable we shall inform you before in order to postpone the tour or you may call us in the morning for the reconfirmation of your hotel pickup.

For those who like to do snorkeling, we promise them this is the best opportunity to do it, please come with your swim suits and be ready to get wet. Masks, swimming glasses and flippers will be provided.

The Old Mosque of Kizimkazi village has great history of Islam and of the Persian world to East African region, therefore, the Kizimkazi Old Mosque has become the famous tourist attraction for locals and internationals.

Zanzibar Island is bathed by the warm currents of the equator. The coral reefs offer exhilarating scuba diving and snorkeling within a short boat ride from most beaches. Scuba is most spectacular off Pemba Island, however for scuba beginners the safe calm waters of Zanzibar are recommended as the current off shore from Pemba can be strong. Snorkeling is best however off Zanzibar Island, whose eastern barrier reef encloses a series of shallow and sheltered tidal lagoons home to an abundance of colorful marine life.

Giraffe Expedition Tanzania can arrange Scuba and Snorkeling trips, from any hotel you choose, to satisfy all ability levels. There are many very beautiful and so great places for snorkeling and diving – but here we aim to highlight the best. The best place for snorkeling in Zanzibar is Chumbe Island one of the most spectacular garden to be found any where in the word, Chumbe is the best for snorkeling only, diving is not allowed here due to the fact that the corals are not so deep and can be easily damaged if diving is to be allowed.

The Safari Blue Tour in Zanzibar is the Zanzibar number one full day trip, this is a sea adventure safari which starts from Fumba fishing village, south west coast of the island, the major attraction is to swim, snorkel, eat sea food and sail with the traditional dhow. The history of traditional dhow dated back to the 15th and 16th centuries, the ages of the moonson winds and the Arab movements, we start sailing dhow at 9:00am to go ahead to a sandbank for the relaxation, swimming and beach walking.

Tourist will have great time to test the tropical sea foods including octopus, calamari, lobster, shrimps, shark, shell fish, tuna fish, barracuda etc. Snorkeling is also the main activity, whereby tourist will be taken to the coral reef and the areas which are good and have colourful school of fish. And after the lunch at Kwale island, there will be a short tour to the ancient baobab tree which is said to be more than 200 years old now, and on our way back to the Fumba beach we shall again have opportunity to swim into the natural swimming pool near the Kwale island, we normally finish our tour around 4:00pm.