Day 32 Nairobi to Cape Town
Nungwi Beach to Stone Town, Zanzibar We were up at later than usual for our 09h30 transfer back to Stone Town. It took just over an hour, we had no hold ups along the way possibly due to it being a Public Holiday. We made it into Stone Town around 10h30 and Danny took us to our hotel "Safari Lodge". We checked inn and drop out luggage and headed out for an orientation of the town. We soon realized how easy it would be to get lost! Tall houses line the narrow alleways in a confusing maze, the streets are too narrow for cars but not for motorbikes, so be careful! Once we made it out we walked along the waterfront with Danny explaining the various sites along the way. We got to see the first Sultan of Zanzibar's palace along with the 7 Wonders Palace and Freddie Mercury's Home which you can walk around and like one of our crew found out, you can even get locked in and forgotten about.
Al managed to get separated around this time with Scott and when they tried to rejoin the group the group was nowhere to be found so they went on their own orientation tour finding the Africa Lodge, formerly the First Gentleman's Club of Zanzibar. We wandered the narrow backstreets finding all manners of stalls and government buildings including the government building for "Alternate Discipline" (the mind boggles). After an hour of walking Scott and Al returned to the Africa House and grabbed a beer and found Ingrid.
Ingrid and I then left Scott and went for lunch at "Livingstone's" onthe beach, not recommended! The setting is beautiful but the service and food was not. We had a look at all the market stalls making our way back to the hotel for a siesta.
In the evening we went to the night market on the waterfront were many little stalls set up business in front of the old Fort and sell finger foods such as small kebabs, fried chicken, octopus, samosas to mention some. It was extra busy due to the Public Holiday seeing the locals cook their favorite dishes which they continually haggled you to buy. We settled on heading back along the waterfront to "Mercury's of Zanzibar" a restaurant dedicated to Freddie Mercury or at least making money off his name. We were there over an hour eating and chatting without hearing one "Queen" song.
We finally walked back to our hotel and had an early night.