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Jozani Forest Guided Tour: Experience Zanzibar's Tropical Rainforest and Wildlife
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Zanzibar
Immerse yourself in the beauty of Zanzibar’s Jozani Forest on a guided tour. Discover endemic species, walk the mangrove boardwalk, and learn about the forest’s wildlife and medicinal plants.
Immerse yourself in the beauty of Zanzibar’s Jozani Forest on a guided tour. Discover endemic species, walk the mangrove boardwalk, and learn about the forest’s wildlife and medicinal plants.
Duration:
5 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Jozani Chwaka Bay National Park - Watch for red colobus monkeys as you walk through the Jozani Forest Reserve, where you’ll join with our Experienced Professional Tour guide - a guided nature tour of the sanctuary. Learn how Zanzibar’s wildlife evolved in isolation from the mainland, follow a boardwalk through a mangrove swamp, and walk between…
- Jozani Chwaka Bay National Park - Watch for red colobus monkeys as you walk through the Jozani Forest Reserve, where you’ll join with our Experienced Professional Tour guide - a guided nature tour of the sanctuary. Learn how Zanzibar’s wildlife evolved in isolation from the mainland, follow a boardwalk through a mangrove swamp, and walk between towering eucalyptus and mahogany trees that provide essential habitat for native birds. Both morning and afternoon departures are available for this Jozani Forest Reserve tour, with pickup and drop-off at Zanzibar hotels.
What's Included
- Transportation from Stone Town included
- Entrance fee covered
- Transportation from Stone Town included
- Entrance fee covered
What's Not Included
- Any expense of personal nature
- Food and Drink
- Any expense of personal nature
- Food and Drink
Additional Information
Embark on a journey to the southern part of Zanzibar Island and immerse yourself in the breathtaking Jozani Forest. Enjoy a 3-hour comprehensive tour amidst the beauty and tranquility of the environment. The forest houses numerous indigenous species, including the Zanzibar red colobus monkey. Walk across the mangrove boardwalk above the swamp and, given…
Embark on a journey to the southern part of Zanzibar Island and immerse yourself in the breathtaking Jozani Forest. Enjoy a 3-hour comprehensive tour amidst the beauty and tranquility of the environment. The forest houses numerous indigenous species, including the Zanzibar red colobus monkey. Walk across the mangrove boardwalk above the swamp and, given the tide conditions, witness tropical fish from the Indian Ocean darting amongst the mangrove roots while crabs skitter over the mud.
An accomplished tour guide will lead you through a nature trail adorned with eucalyptus and mahogany trees, elaborating on the medicinal aspects of a variety of plants. As you stroll, acquire knowledge about the creatures, birds, and reptiles that inhabit different regions of this tropical rainforest.
Location
Forodhani
We meet at forodhani park near the house of wonder.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.0
(41 Ratings)
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Cookie101
Jun 29, 2025
A great adventure - Seif was our guide to the Jozani Forest to see the Zanzibar Red Colobus monkey.
He is well spoken and articulate, friendly and knowledgeable and is of good company.
I recommend him to other visitors to Zanzibar.
The trails within the forest were a bit slippy under foot due to recent rain, so good sturdy foot wear is a must!
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Marco_s
May 19, 2025
The guide was prepared on... - The guide was prepared on botany and fauna in both English and Italian and very patient. He took us to see several monkeys and the mangrove forest.
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Carla-abg
Mar 6, 2025
Beautiful forest and go with time to enjoy completely. - I was staying in Stone Town and my guide, Seif, went to pick me up personally at the door of the hostel, since cars didn't get in the street. On the eve he had already contacted me to match. The journey was a little long, and we had a little interruption because of the visit of the President of Tanzania, and that ended up making us arrive at the park late and with less time to visit.
However, this was not a problem, Seif managed to show me the usual part of visiting the park, and, patiently, we walked enough to find the red Colubus, which was my goal number 01 on the visit to the Jozani Forest. Super worth it, because we found a family with a puppet, and it was amazing to be able to film and photograph these rare specimens.
The park is beautiful, the mahogany trees are amazing, imposing.
A remark, which does not concern my guide specifically, but we have seen other guides encourage tourists to touch the monkeys, both gray and red colubus, and this was pretty bad; as a tourist, I felt prevented from questioning, since the guide himself encouraged such behavior, but I understand that other conscious guides should question and draw attention to those who do not follow the rules, for the good of the park itself and the tourist activity.
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Bjoernrichter
Oct 18, 2025
Monkey experience - We had great walk in the park with an experienced guide and saw lots of monkeys very close and wild forest. Afterwards we also experienced the mangroves. Tanzania hospitality is unfortunately not well developed, as we had to wait for almost 30min to start and there is no visitor center with background information.
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Anis
Jul 12, 2025
Eco-Nice - A friendly but primitive atmosphere. Well maintained forest with few butterflies and resting red back monkeys. A well knowledgeable guide “Thabet” who explained every detail during the tour. We paid $12 per person for a 40 mn tour. Mind your feet from some species of ants that can bite.
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Sylvia
Feb 10, 2025
Very nice moments - Beautiful walk with a private guide, meeting with monkeys and many other small animals, great times for those who love nature and the people who live there, meeting with children who sell fruit 🥰
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Flyerblue
Jun 27, 2025
Good to see the red colobus, but not worth more than an hour - We did the one hour tour, but really it could have lasted about 20 minutes as there's not a lot to see. We walked to two trees where there were plenty of red colobus monkeys, and some blue monkeys, and we didnt see them elsewhere. We were then driven to the mangrove forest for the second part of the tour. A boardwalk makes for a vaguely interesting walk, but there's only so much interest you can pretend to have about mangroves. The guide wsa very knowledgeable but unless you want to hear about mangrove trees for 20-30 minutes, then there isn't much to recommend this. Note that the first part of the tour was very muddy, so your footwear and long clothes will get muddy.
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548stinek
Mar 13, 2025
The monkeys were cute - An OK trip. It's fun to see the monkeys (and a few other animals if you're lucky, like duikers, skinks, snakes, other reptiles and lizards.) The mangrove broadwalk is beautiful and unique. I recommend the 1 hour tour, and not the 3 hours one, which was what we did. It was frankly too long walking about. A 2 hour tour would have been ideal, in my opinion.
A fun activity to do in Zanzibar with friends and family, but do so while travelling around the island. Don't go here only for the Jozani forest tour. It's better as part of a round-island trip with more activities plannes.
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Judyp5555
Jul 13, 2025
Disappointing - I found this over rated . We went for a 5 minute walk through the forest saw a couple of monkeys . Then we had to get back in the car to travel a small distance to walk through to try and see a couple more . Nothing was explained by the guide to what was happening . We didn’t bother getting back in car to follow the final time . Luckily the guy who drove us to this area was great and explained a few things
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John
Sep 23, 2025
Jozani Forest - not worth the time & cost - Based on our visit we would recommend other travellers to avoid this trip. We booked a tour with a professional guide and it was terrible. All the tour guides turn up with their clients and just set off randomly hoping to see some monkeys. The staff at the Forest make no attempt to help the guides with where to spot monkeys. When we were there all the other visitors we passed were also having the same experience… essentially walking around farmers fields, getting hot & sweaty, while increasingly anxious guides hoped to accidentally find something worth seeing!
We hardly saw any monkeys. We did see some snakes and our guide literally ran away looking terrified! On other similar trips the guides have worked together to establish the best places to view wildlife, this doesn’t happen at Jozani… I wish we had seen some reviews about this before we booked the trip as we could have used the time and money on some of the other wonderful things to do in amazing Zanzibar.
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