Includes/Excludes
Cost Includes
- Hotel transfers (pickup & drop-off)
- Russian-speaking guide
- Entrance fees to all listed historical locations
- Fruit tasting & spice-farm visit
- Live coffee-making demonstration & tasting
- Guided tour of ruins and coastal sites
Cost Excludes
- Meals and treats at the street-food festival (please bring extra cash for snacks)
- Optional donkey ride (if you choose to take it)
- Personal expenses, souvenirs, tips
- Alcoholic beverages
Overview
Join us on an enchanting half-day journey across Zanzibar, where the past meets the present in a swirl of culture, taste and atmosphere. We’ll transport you from your hotel in a comfortable, air-conditioned vehicle to explore regal ruins from the sultans’ era, engage your senses at a live coffee show, stroll through a spice and fruit farm, and finish with a mouth-watering street-food festival as the sun sets over Stone Town. Whether you’re a history buff, a food lover or simply eager to soak up local vibes, this tour has something special for you.
Trip Highlights
- Visit the atmospheric ruins of the Maruhubi Palace Ruins — once built by Sultan Barghash as a coastal pleasure palace by the sea.
- Explore the impressive remains of Mtoni Palace Ruins — a grand 19th-century royal residence that once hosted the Omani-Zanzibari sultans.
- Enjoy a live coffee-making ceremony: watch, smell, taste a freshly roasted and brewed Zanzibari cup. Optional donkey ride around the palace ruins adds a fun twist.
- Visit a spice farm where Zanzibar’s famed cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and pepper grow; followed by tasting fresh tropical fruits straight from the plantation.
- Finish at the lively street-food gathering in Forodhani Gardens in Stone Town — grill, seafood, Zanzibar pizza, sugar-cane juice and more as dusk falls.
