5 Days | 4 Nights – Discover Old Stone Town
Duration
5 days
Max People
50
Min Age
12+
Pickup
Airport
OVERVIEW
This Package allows you to spend 5 Days | 4 Nights with an extra night option in Stone Town where you will have the chance to discover the
best activities in Zanzibar Island including the Prison Island Boat Trip + Stone Town City Tour, and Jozani Forest + Spice Tour. You
can start the activity on any date you prefer.
Optional Activities:
Sunset Dhow Cruise
Nungwi Tour
Seaweed Plantation and Kuza Cave
Nakupenda Safari (Sandbank and Prison Island)
And many more…
The tours in this package
- Prison Island Boat Trip — A short boat ride from Stone Town to Changuu Island, home of the giant Aldabra tortoises, with time to swim and snorkel.
- Stone Town City Tour — Walk the narrow lanes of this UNESCO World Heritage town: carved wooden doors, the old slave market, Darajani market and the seafront Forodhani Gardens.
- Jozani Forest — Zanzibar’s only national park, where you walk among the rare red colobus monkeys and along the mangrove boardwalk.
- Spice Tour — Visit a spice farm and taste cloves, cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg and tropical fruit — the reason Zanzibar is called the Spice Island.
Where you’ll stay
Stone Town
Staying in Stone Town puts you inside a UNESCO World Heritage Site: centuries-old coral-stone houses, rooftop restaurants, the Forodhani night food market and easy access to Prison Island and the spice farms.
Add more to your trip
You can add any of these to your package:
- Sunset Dhow Cruise — Sail a traditional wooden dhow as the sun goes down over the Indian Ocean.
- Nungwi Cultural Tour — Visit the 16th-century Fukuchani ruins and Nungwi’s natural turtle aquarium at the northern tip of the island.
- Kuza Cave & Seaweed Farm — Swim in a sacred limestone cave pool and meet the seaweed farmers of Jambiani.
- Prison Island & Nakupenda Sandbank — Giant tortoises in the morning, then a swim and seafood lunch on the white Nakupenda sandbank.
- A Tanzania safari — fly to Mikumi or Selous for the day, or add a few days in the northern parks.
Plan it your way
Every holiday package is a starting point. We can change the order of the tours, add extra nights, choose a different beach area or fit the plan around your flights and budget. Tell us how many people are travelling and when, and our team in Nungwi will send you a tailored itinerary.
Chat with us on WhatsApp or send an enquiry with your dates and hotel preferences.
Included/Excluded
- Return Airport Transfers
- Pickup and drop off from the hotel for excursions
- Entrance fee to all entry points during tours/excursions.
- Professional English speaking guide for all tours/excursions
- A bottle of water
- Medical Insurance
- Personal Expenses
- Tips and Gratuities to the driver/guide
Tour Plan
After your arrival, meet and greet our Representative at Zanzibar Airport and transfer to Stone Town for check-in at the hotel of your choice evening leisure and overnight.
The morning after Breakfast we will proceed with Stone Town, one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites and Cultural Arts Centre of East Africa. You will have the Stone Town City Tour which will take you around the historical culture and architectural important town of Zanzibar with a century of history. It includes a visit to the former slave market site, which now stands as an Anglican church built in 1871, a town market, a visit the Zanzibar Memorial Museum, House of Wonder built-in 1883 (Beit-Al-Ajab), Old Arab Fort, Palace Museum, Old Indian dispensary (Cultural Center). After Lunch(not included) at any recommendable restaurant in Stone Town, you will take a trip to Prison Island or Changuu Island. This is the middle island of the three visible from the Stone Town. It takes approximately 30 minutes to get there by boat. The prison which was never used on this island was built in 1893 but was later used as a Quarantine Hospital. Apart from the Prison ruins you will also see the enormous giant tortoises which are the main attraction of the island. The tortoises were brought to the island from Seychelles by Sultan Said Majid in the 1820s. On this little paradise, one can also swim, snorkel, sunbathe, or just
At 8:00 am after breakfast, we shall drive to Jozani Forest. This is a natural reserve, that lies 35 km South East from Zanzibar City between Chawaka Bay and Uzi Bay. The only remaining natural forest of Unguja covers an area of 10 square km. The forest, with trees older than 100 years, is the sanctuary for some very interesting animals, including the Red Colobus monkey, the small Zanzibar leopard, the blue monkey, chameleon, mongoose, bush baby, tree hyrax, bush pig, civet, and two small antelope species found only on Zanzibar, Zanzibar duiker and Sunni We then go ahead with the Spice Tour. On this tour, you will see and taste the tropical fruits, spices plantations, or plots on the island. A variety of spices plants used as ornament, medicines, flowers, fruits, and other interesting flora can be seen during the spice tour and if you have time, you will visit the Kidichi bath built in 1850 by the first Sultan for his wife Sheharzad (Granddaughter of Fateh Ali Shah of Persia). Back to the hotel after the tours for evening leisure and overnight
Day is spent at leisure
Have some leisure at the Hotel till the time for your transfer to the Airport to catch your flight back home (Pickup from the hotel will depend on the flight departure time).
from $328 per person
| Min - Max (Persons) | Adult Price |
|---|---|
| 1 - 1 | $328 |
| 2 - 2 | $184 |
| 3 - 3 | $142 |
| 4 - 4 | $116 |
| 5 - 5 | $103 |
| 6 - 6 | $94 |
| 7 - 7 | $103 |
| 8 - 8 | $101 |
| 9 - 9 | $100 |
| 10 - 10 | $99 |
- Hotel pickup & drop-off arranged
- Local team based in Nungwi
- Pay in USD or EUR, cash or card
from $328