East Africa Travel Guide: Islands (Zanzibar, Pemba, Lamu)



The Zanzibar Connection

By Erik Trinidad DAY 208: I suppose a lot more good things came out of the mugging at knifepoint in Cape Town than bad ones. Ever since the incident, my itinerary had been sent on a tangeant that led me...

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Captivated in Coastal Tanzania

New Year's Eve, Heathrow Airport: Not a soul in sight, save for the occasional assault from drunken revellers passing through Terminal Four. I'm cold and miserable and wondering what on earth possessed me to book a flight leaving London at...

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The Moon and the Music

The radio, wired up to a car battery, crackles into life in the near darkness outside the first house of Kizambani village, where a small crowd has gathered to listen for the moon. Above us the sky is pitch black,...

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Zanzibar

Often known as the exotic spice island, Zanzibar was the starting and organizing point for slave traders, missionaries, and explorers before they went into the interior of Africa. Zanzibar has also been colonized and controlled by a wide-range of colonial...

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