Cultural Experiences
Zanzibar Spice Farm Tour
Smell, taste and learn about cloves, nutmeg, vanilla and cinnamon on a working farm outside Stone Town.
$60 per person + transfer by area
Zanzibar Activities
Zanzibar Cultural Experiences
Meet the people behind Zanzibar's spices, food and boats. Taste fresh cloves and nutmeg on a working spice farm, cook a Swahili lunch with a local host, walk out to the seaweed farms with the women who run them, or watch dhows being built by hand on Nungwi beach. Part of what you pay goes directly to the hosts.
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Cultural Village & Dhow-Building Experience
Watch boatbuilders shape wooden dhows by hand on Nungwi beach, then walk the fishing village.
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Cultural Experiences
Village & Seaweed Farming Experience
Walk out at low tide with women seaweed farmers on the south-east coast and see village life.
$33 per person + transfer by area
Cultural Experiences
Zanzibar Swahili Cooking Class
Cook a Swahili lunch with a local host: coconut curry, pilau and chapati, with an optional market visit.
$62 per person + transfer by area
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Safari and beach
Add a safari to your beach holiday
Mikumi National Park is a 45-minute charter flight from Zanzibar. Fly in for a full day of game drives and be back at your hotel the same evening: see our 1-day private Mikumi safari or the lower-priced sharing safari.
Dreaming of the Serengeti and the Great Migration? Our sister site, Serengeti Safari from Zanzibar, plans private fly-in Serengeti safaris of 1 to 5 days, with flights straight from Zanzibar.