Tuesday, 25 January 2011


That night we all took a boat to go on a sunset cruise which was awesome - lots of cider, lots of jumping off the boat, lots chilling out on the top deck and a pretty incredible sunset!

After stone town the next day we headed up to the northern beaches which are the most amazing beaches I've ever been to turquoise sea and white sand again - shame I had to pull such an interesting face in this photo... This is where we chilled out in the sea for a while and then someone bought us cider - not something you can really do down at shoreham!

The night market was full of stalls with loads of different food including some fairly sketchy seafood so I stuck to the 'zanzibar pizza' which is a bit like an omlette and tasted great. Once we were done at the market we headed to a bar called Mercurys named aftewr Freddie Mercury who was born in Zanzibar - bit of pub quiz trivia there!

That night we headed up to a bar for a cool beer to check out the sunset before heading to the night markets for some food. Here's me and Ben casually posing with our beers.

Monday, 24 January 2011


So after seeing all the spices and eating most of them one of the guys climbed up a huge coconut tree using just a piece of rope wrapped around the tree which was pretty impressive. Then we got to eat the coconuts!

Its a pineapple plant! who knew they started off so colourful and didn't grow on trees...

After going round the old slave market we headed out of town to go on a spice tour which was really interesting - I had no idea where spices came from! This plant is called a custard-apple plant and apparently they have it in Australia too but I never spotted it. Its not got the most original name its called that because it tastes like apples and custard but I'm thinking about importing some because they're tasty!