Plate I01
Stone Town, a Zanzibari door at noon.
Stone Town, noon
Mji Mkongwe, Stone Town
Preface, on the salt-and-spice island that closes a safari
Zanzibar is the island that closes a Tanzania safari. Stone Town for the carved-door heritage walk, Nungwi or Kendwa on the north coast for the reef-protected beaches. Three nights as the salt-water end of a bushveld trip. Best between June and October. The same window as the Serengeti.
Every journey in Zanzibar, currently
1 journey in Zanzibar.
Interlude, Plates from the field
Things we
have seen.
Six plates from the studio's last two years. Carved doors in Stone Town, a north-coast dhow at sunset, a spice-farm cardamom morning.
Six plates, drag, swipe, or use the arrows
Colophon
A small note
on how we work.
Tibro has been routing Zanzibar since 2018. Seven years of Stone-Town-and-north-coast trips that close Tanzania safari weeks.
We work with a Stone-Town-based partner for the door walks and the spice farm, and a north-coast hotel team for the beach end.
One route is what we currently maintain. The Serengeti-and-Zanzibar nine-night is the most-requested combination; Zanzibar always sits on the back of the safari.
7Years of routing Zanzibar
1Route, in combination
11 / 24Hours we tend to reply within
Warmly,
The Tibro studio , Mumbai, Stone Town (partner), Nungwi (coast)
Letters received
From the studio's folder
What they wrote
when they got home.
Two letters from the last twelve months.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Serengeti & Zanzibar, nine nights, September 2024
Four Serengeti nights, two Ngorongoro, three Zanzibar. One night in Stone Town for the carved-door walk and the spice farm, two on the north coast at Nungwi. The contrast between the bush and the salt-water was the trip's right shape. The Zanzibar three nights were what the Serengeti had earned us.
P. & K. IyerBengaluru, honeymoon safari-and-beach
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Zanzibar standalone, five nights, January 2024
Five nights at Kendwa with one day in Stone Town. The reef-protected beach was the kind of low-tide-walking ankle-deep water our children loved. The Stone Town carved-door walk was an hour we did not expect to enjoy as much as we did.
A. & R. KrishnanChennai, family with two children
4.92 / 5Average from 56 returned travellers
24%Travel with us a second time
11 hrsMean reply time to a first letter
An open letter
Tell us how many
nights, and which coast.
Two questions decide a Zanzibar chapter: how many nights, and which coast. North for the protected reefs, east for the open Indian Ocean.
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