Most couples book Zanzibar for four or five nights and spend the flight home wishing they’d stayed longer. By day three you’ve finally stopped checking your phone. By day five you know which sunbed gets the best shade. Then...
Most couples picture the same scene before a trip to Zanzibar: a table on the sand, candles, the sea a few steps away. Plenty of places sell some version of it. What differs is how it feels when you...
Zanzibar looks good from the ground. From 100 metres up, it looks unreal. The water changes colour in bands, from pale turquoise at the shore to deep blue where the reef drops away. Sandbars appear and disappear with the...
Nobody warns you about the tide until the morning you walk down to the beach with your towel and find the water has gone somewhere else. That happens on much of Zanzibar’s east coast. Nungwi, on the island’s northern...