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Historical Tour Of Stone Town Zanzibar Islands
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23 Ratings
Zanzibar
Explore Stone Town’s landmarks, history, and vibrant streets. Discover the House of Wonders, Old Fort, Sultan’s Palace, and more. Uncover stories of its diverse past.
Duration:
2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Stone Town - This tour will give you an excellent way of familiarizing yourself with Stone Town’s geography,history,architecture,and culture. This fascinating excursion leads you through a maze of narrow streets that boasts more than 2000 limestone buildings, covering an area of 50 hectares and with a population of 18000 living in the suburbs. With its defined and overlapping African,Arab, Indian, Persian and European elements,it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. Zanzibar and Stone Town are truly cosmopolitan.After a visit to the House of Wonders forodhani Gardens,Palace museum,Catholic Church, the Old Fort,Darajani market,and experiencing the hustle of the streets,the bazaar full of coffee drinkers and the beautiful doors of Zanzibar, you too will bear witness that Stone Town is a cultural crossroads and that it is worthy of its world heritage title. If you want shopping your guide can adapt your tour to your needs. And then back where your tour started
What's Included
- Professional tour guide
- Bottle of water
What's Not Included
- Food and Drinks
Additional Information
On the tour, we’ll visit some of Stone Town’s most famous landmarks, including the House of Wonders, the Old Fort, the Sultan’s Palace and i will take you at roof top of maru maru hotel to see a stone town view,We’ll also wander through the narrow streets and alleyways, taking in the sights, sounds, and smells of this vibrant city.
I’ll share stories about Stone Town’s past, from its early days as a trading port to its role as a center of the slave trade. I’ll also talk about the city’s unique architecture, which reflects its diverse cultural influences.
Location
Forodhani
Travelers can come to the Forodhani Gardens, in the center of the gardens, there is a bandstand, so I will be waiting for you at a bandstand
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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100kasia
Sep 16, 2024
Very knowledgeable guide! - Nas is a great tour guide. Very knowledgeable with a lot of interesting stories and historical details. He would be always open to any questions and you could see that he was interested in history and knew a lot about it. He would also speak a lot about the modern culture of Zanzibar. We really enjoyed our tour with him!
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Frangifran
Sep 16, 2024
Superb Stone Town tour - Nas provided an excellent tour of Stone Town, guiding us through all the historical details and answering every question we had. He was friendly, knowledgeable, and made the experience truly enjoyable.
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185jamalf
Jul 29, 2024
Best Prison Island and Stonetown tour - We had a great tour with Nas. Started with Prison Island, which was amazing. Nas was very knowledgeable and even our teenager kids who are not easy to engage found it very interesting. Amazing tour both at the Prison site and the tortoises. We made dreamlike pictures on the nice beach.
Then headed back to Stonetown where Nas shared a very interesting stories about some nice spots and the rich history of Stone Town and Zanzibar. Really interesting and engaging.
Thanks for a great experience and can really recommend Nas!
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Aoifeconor2024
Jul 19, 2024
Highly recommend Nas for your tour of Stone town - Nas is an amazing tour guide, very easy to chat to and extremely informative about the history of Stone town. He has so much knowledge and provided an excellent tour despite us being limited with time on the day. We learned so much from him and definitely recommend him to be your tour guide!
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Conorh326
Jul 19, 2024
Great Stonetown Tour - Nas was brilliant on our tour of Stonetown. Took us on a tour that fit as much in, in the short time we had. We saw historical sites, learned interesting facts and got a wonderful tour of the market. A brilliant guide, polite, professional and easy to interact with. We would recommend him to anyone wanting a tour of Stonetown.
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Roz_liem345
Jul 18, 2024
Loved it - Excellent! The guide provided wonderful and detailed explanation, overall amazing experience . We enjoyed it so much. Thank you ☺️
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Dominikasz4360ux
Jul 11, 2024
Perfect for families with kids - I can recommend this excellent guide Nas. I felt very safe with him during the whole tour of the Stone town city center. Nas is also perfect for family with kids.
10/10!
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Zbyszek_sikora
Jul 10, 2024
In Stone Town - look for Nas! - Nas is very friendly and helpful. Everything about our Stone Town tour could be settled according to our needs. Perfect care, great guide!
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Irinaaa2479wd
Jul 7, 2024
Want to explore the mystic of Stone Town? Then Nas is your guy!! - We feel lucky to have had Nas as our walking tour guide. He had incredible local historical knowledge of Stonetown , explaining things with enthusiasm and passion in perfect English… he explained the cultural history of Zanzibar, taking us inside the old fort. We toured the food and spice markets, went by Freddy Mercury’s old house and even visited a local Jewellers to look at the Tanzinite stones unique to Zanzibar….
I can’t recommend him highly enough… well done Nas!!! 👍🏻 and Thank you 😊!!!
Chris and Irina
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Nicolemw7427pc
Jul 4, 2024
Amazing 10/10 would recommend - I promise you won’t regret this tour. Not only was the tour guide, Nas, so amazing and informative but also adjusted to your interests in what you want to know more about or see. I would rate him more if I could!!
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