Spice tour
Zanzibar is also known as "The Island of Spices"; whose name evokes a romantic past embalmed
in the aroma of cloves, cinnamon, cardamom and lemon grass. This tour starts with a drive through
a profusion of greenery in the countryside seeing, smelling and tasting a variety of mouth-watering
tropical seasonal fruits, some examples are: jack fruit, pineapple, banana, green coconut (madafu), dourian, love apple (matufaa), litche (shoki-shoki), soursop (mabungo) and starfruit (carambola).
Some of the spices are cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper, turmeric and nutmeg - are as
exotic as the flavour. A full tour involves much more than spices and you will also have a chance
to see the iodine plant, heena bush, ylang-ylang, the lipstick tree, cocoa and coffee trees. The tour
also includes a visit to the Kidichi Persian Baths built in 1850 by Seyyid Said bin Sultan for his
Persian wife Princess Sheherezade granddaughter of the Shah of Persia; you will also visit the
Maruhubi Palace Ruins built by the third Sultan of Zanzibar Seyyid Barghash for his 99 concubines.
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