Day Seventeen: Tanzania: Stone Town and Roof Top Dinner

9:31pm, May 16th, 2019

This morning I woke up at 5am for the airport so we could go to Zanzibar, Tanzania. The night before we had been informed that our flight to Zanzibar had been canceled so we spent all night with Sula, who travels worldwide almost every week for his job, looking for other flight options that would get us to Zanzibar early in the day. Anyway, we go to the airport, and Sula talked his way into getting us on a flight that had a very short layover in Kilimanjaro before we headed to Zanzibar. When we arrived in Kilimanjaro, we had quite a few difficulties with customs and then checking in for our flight and security, but we finally made it through and were on our way to Zanzibar. We arrived, and after we go to our hotel, we went on a walk around Stone Town, which is a pretty historic place. There are lots of forts and such left over from when it was being colonized by the British and Armenian. We walked to the beach and visited another hotel that had some beautiful architecture. We were pretty exhausted from our early wake-up and traveling, so we went back to the hotel early before dinner. For dinner, we went to a traditional Zanzibar celebratory dinner, which had us sitting on pillows on the ground and sharing a big plate of food with traditional foods, music, and beverages. It was on a rooftop of our hotel’s site hotel, and we made friends with all of the people sitting around us and talked about everyone’s adventures so far in Africa. Zanzibar is a predominantly Muslim place, so hearing the call to prayer to break fasting because it is Ramadan was pretty impressive. 

Hours for the day: 5

Hours in total: 109

Until tomorrow

Maria