Stone Town City Tour Zanzibar Spice Farm Tour

Our Stone Town City Tour and Zanzibar Spice Farm Tour are the two most essential cultural experiences in Zanzibar, often combined into a single-day itinerary lasting 6–7 hours.

Stone Town offers a deep dive into the island’s UNESCO-listed architectural and dark historical past, while the spice farms provide a sensory exploration of the “Spice Island’s” botanical heritage.

Stone Town City Tour Highlights

This is a 2–3 hour walking tour. This experience navigates the labyrinthine alleys of the historic quarter and covers the following places:
✓ Historic Architecture: Observe the iconic Zanzibar Doors, intricately carved wooden entrances that signify the owner’s status and heritage.
✓ Old Slave Market & Anglican Cathedral: Visit the site of the former slave market, including the moving memorial and the underground slave chambers
✓ The House of Wonders (Beit-al-Ajaib): Once the grandest palace in East Africa, though currently under renovation, it remains a central landmark of Sultanate history.
✓ The Old Fort (Ngome Kongwe): The oldest building in Stone Town, built by Omanis in the 17th century; it now serves as a cultural centre
✓ Freddie Mercury Museum: The birthplace of the Queen frontman, showcasing his childhood and early life in Zanzibar
✓ Darajani Bazaar: A bustling local market where you can witness daily life and find fresh seafood, textiles, and local spices
✓ Forodhani Gardens: A waterfront park known for its vibrant evening street food market featuring “Zanzibar pizza” and fresh seafood

Zanzibar Spice Farm Tour Highlights

These tours, located in the countryside (often around Kizimbani or Kidichi), last approximately 2–3 hours. They include:
Sensory Experience: Walk through lush plantations to see, touch, smell, and taste fresh spices like cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, and cardamom directly from the trees.
Traditional Uses: Guides explain how various plants are used in local cooking, natural cosmetics, and traditional medicine
Coconut Climber Performance: Watch a local “butterfly” climber scale tall palm trees while singing traditional Swahili songs to harvest fresh coconuts
Tropical Fruit Tasting: Sample seasonal fruits such as jackfruit, custard apple, starfruit, and red bananas.
Authentic Swahili Lunch: Many tours include a traditional spiced rice (pilau) lunch prepared by local families on the farm

Comprehensive 1 Full-Day Experience Itinerary

Morning: Spice Farm Tour (approximately 2-3 hours) 

Afternoon: Stone Town City Tour (approximately 2-3 hours) 

An Hourly Itinerary

Zanzibar Stone Town & Spice Farm Tour with Lunch combines 2 tours in a single day:
✓ The Zanzibar city tour
✓ The Spice Farm excursion

Go around Stone Town and visit the bustling bazaars, the past slave market, and chambers, the National Museum, the House of Wonders, the Old Fort, the Sultan’s palace, as well as cathedrals, and countless mosques. There will also be time to shop for souvenirs and handicrafts. 

After exploring the markets and shops, walk through a spice farm and learn about the properties, origins, and uses of certain spices. You will discover coconut and pineapple plantations, as well as many other local spice trees. Get a chance to taste and savor local tropical fruits straight from the farm.

The Stone Town city tour and Zanzibar spice farm tour start with a visit to Zanzibar’s colorful market.  A market is a place buzzing with fresh produce, friendly people, and a great vibe! You can buy a wide range of fresh products, including cheese, meat, fish, fruits, and veggies. We continue on to the site of the cathedral built-in 1874.

The cathedral signifies a potent time in Zanzibar’s history and stands in the sight of a past slave market, its high altar standing on the exact site of the whipping post. Slavery was abolished in 1873 by a decree issued by the then Sultan of Zanzibar.

From here we visit the residence of the late Sultans of Zanzibar, ‘Tip Tip House’, the Old Fort, ‘Peoples Palace’, and the House of Wonders’, full of intrigue and vivid history from a bygone era. The tour will take you through the narrow streets of the old stone town, the heart of Zanzibar’s vivacious history, with time for shopping.

Then visit the Maruhubi Palace Ruins, built in 1880 by the third Sultan of Zanzibar, Sultan Said Baraghash Bin Said, especially for housing 99 of his harem. For a deeper cultural experience, we visit one of our carefully selected spice farms.

This involves visiting spice-growing areas to see different spices, learn about their characteristics and uses, and taste some on the spot, depending on the season. In addition, it includes visits to the famous spice-producing area, where you can see medicinal, cosmetic, and ornamental plants and herbs.

Most of the interesting items are cloves, nutmeg, rambutan, lipstick, iodine plant, lemongrass, vanilla, henna, shampoo plant, and more. Our spice tour offers you the opportunity to indulge your senses with a kaleidoscope of smells, tastes, and textures.

From the punch of chili to the refreshing succulence of green coconut flesh, we promise that this tour will awaken your senses. It also provides you with the unique opportunity to purchase these exclusive spices straight from the source.

Stone Town City Tour Zanzibar Spice Farm Tour Rates Include:

✓ Lunch
✓ Transport
✓ Hotel pick-up
✓ Entrance fees
✓ Mineral drinking water & Services of an experienced guide

Notes

* For departures from other areas, please inquire
* Guides are available in English, French, Italian, and Spanish. Must be pre-booked at the time of inquiry
* Guests are advised to wear comfortable closed walking or hiking shoes and pants, and to bring a hat and sun cream

Stone Town City Tour, Zanzibar Spice Farm Tour Rates Do Not Include:

* Drinks
* Tips or gratuity
* Travelers Insurance
* Communication charges
* Minimum of 1 person required
* Visas, international airfares, and airport taxes; meals
* Sightseeing not included in the package; optional activities
* Personal expenses such as transfers to/ from the airport (supplement airport transfer cost applies for tours starting from the airport)

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