I have been horribly remiss in posting more about Zanzibar. I manged to post FROM Zanzibar, and then only a SINGLE photo once I got home. I apologize but am not sorry. Things are quite hectic.
So…here goes. We were in Zanzibar for about 10 days for Spring Break. One word: SPECTACULAR!!! Hot, hot, hot, humid, humid, humid. Beautiful white-sugar-sand beaches, fresh fish every day, reading fiction and swimming in the Indian Ocean. We spend 7 days on Kendwa Beach at the northern end of the island.
After a week of relaxation we headed to Stone Town and the Zanzibar Coffee House for a three-day stay. (The photo at the bottom of the page is the room we stayed in – the Macchiato!) We continued our slothful ways in Stone Town, doing little of the usual tourist stuff. We DID, however, manage to break the high-gravity and book a trip to the Zanzibar Butterfly Center & Jozani Forest (southeast of Stone Town).
We spent half-a-day hiking in an old-growth forest of red mahogony and gum trees with (at least) 5 different types of palms and figs. We saw blue monkeys WAY up in the trees, crab spiders too close for our comfort and Zanzabari Red Colobus Monkeys that wanted to play with us. We also went to the mangrove forest on the West side of the island.
I really enjoyed taking pics of the plants, flowers and critters.
The beach, the sunsets, the doors were also great fun
