Stone Town, Zanzibar.

Well, this is me taking a shortcut. This is me finishing up my time in Africa through just posting a bunch of pictures that hold some pretty cool memories--and maybe explaining them a little bit. This is me cutting corners and hoping that it won't matter in the long run.

This is Part 1 on Zanzibar. Welcome to a little piece of paradise.

Pulling into Stone Town on the ferry.

We stayed in Stone Town for the first couple of days. Stone Town is awesome. It's full of windy alleyways (you WILL get lost--it's inevitable) and this cool cultural mix of all things African, Arabic, and European.

Wandering around. 

Chilling by the harbor. 

Stone Town

Old colonial palace that is now a museum.
Stunning views off the top floor balcony. 

Christian church. 

We watched part of a wedding that was going on inside this church. But don't let this Christian church fool you, the majority of the population is still Muslim. One of the speakers for the call to prayer was right above our hostel window, as we discovered when we were suddenly woken up at 5:00 in the morning. 

Dinner our first night in Stone Town.

After dinner, we ended up relaxing at our hostel for a little bit. Nick and I ended up going out later that night though to check out the night market. The night market was incredible--it was held right next to the harbor and had tons of cheap, delicious food. Lots of seafood, naan bread, crepes, falafels, "Zanzibari pizza," fresh fruit, shawarma, and more.

The night market.

We spent the second day we were in Zanzibar going on a Spice tour.

Coupla pics from the Spice Tour

After we were done seeing all the spices, they fed us a very African lunch that was actually quite delicious. We ate it on the ground of a little hut structure.

Then they showed us a beach. Before we got to the beach, they showed us an underground cavern that supposedly held slaves back in the day. It was a pretty dank place, full of muggy, damp air and weird bugs and slimy things. 

Then we walked to the beach. However, said beach had millions of jellyfish everywhere and we didn't even take our shoes off, let alone touch the water. 

pink jellyfish. 

Welp, folks, this is what dehydrated jellyfish look like...

After we got back to Stone Town, we rested for a little bit, and then we split up to go explore the city. Nick and I looked around the old fort (super awesome art museum in one of the tower garrets), toured the museum, and saw lots of really cool things.

We all met up once it got dark to eat dinner at the night market (good life decision) and then got smoothies at a really great restaurant. I have no idea what the restaurant's called anymore, but needless to say, it was also a very good life decision.