Zanzibar and Pemba excursions:

Just name Zanzibar evokes feelings of romance and mystery and the reality wont disappoint you Known as the spice island because of it’s export of Cloves. Zanzibar only 20 minutes by plane or as little as 70 minutes by sea from Dar es salaam is set like a jewel in tranquil, coral filled waters.
To its shores came Summarias, Assyrians, Egyptians, Portuguese, Arabs, Dutch and the British, each leaving a legacy of their stay.

From the island the great European explorers, Speke, Burton, Livingstone, Krapt, Rebman and Grant set off for their voyages of discovery in the unsheltered hinterland. The Indian Ocean trade winds brought the Persians and Arabs from the Gulf who began setting there by 700AD and some 400years later built the coral stone mosque at Kizimkazi in the southwest. Settles from the Persian Gulf later added to the racial mixture that can be seen in today’s citizens of Zanzibar.

The Omani Sultanate was not toppled until January 1964, a month after Britain granted independence and Zanzibar and Pemba became a people’s republic. On April 26, the republic joined Tanganyika to become the united republic of Tanzania.
 

Fifty kilometers north of Zanzibar is the highly fertile Pemba islands which although smaller than Zanzibar grows three times as many cloves. The Pemba channel that runs between the islands and the mainland offers some of the richest waters for big game fishermen. Pemba is of the main tourist track and has it's own special atmosphere. In addition to the clove plantations there is a number of rains to visit.