Depart by flight to Mtwara, met on arrival and transfer to Lodge (b/b).


Day at leisure with diving and other activities (payment direct); overnight lodge (b/b).


Day at leisure with diving and other activities (payment direct); overnight Lodge (b/b).


After breakfast at leisure then transfer to airport for return flight to Dar es Salaam.

FYI
eco2 is the first SCUBA diving operation and marine research and education centre in the region and is based in Mikindani town - Mtwara. The centre aims to provide low-impact, eco-aware SCUBA diving and dive safaris and promote marine environmental education through applied research.

The centre is fully dive equipped and operates a fitted fibreglass dive boat (with freshwater shower to rinse camera and film equipment), and a traditional African sailing mashua. The manager of the centre is a qualified marine biologist who has worked and researched in the region since 1995 and is a PADI dive instructor with over 15 years dive experience.

Depart at 08:30hrs drive north and visit the Kaole ruins then for overnight camp or lodge (b/b).


After breakfast visit the Catholic museum, learn about the slave trade, the route of the early explorers Burton and Speke and Stanley, the chapel where Dr. Livingstone body was laid before being set to Westminster Abbey in UK; dinner and overnight camp or lodge (b/b).


Morning at leisure then transfer to Dar es Salaam (ferry to Zanzibar at 16:00hrs.) Meet and transfer to hotel (b/b).


Day at leisure to visit the historical sites (payment direct). The transfer to port for ferry to Dar es Salaam depart at 16:00hrs arriving at 18:00hrs.

Note
Excursions and diving can be booked prior to arrival in Zanzibar.

Depart by flight 15:00hrs to Mafia. Met on arrival at 15:30hrs and transferred to Lodge. Day is spent at leisure, overnight at lodge.

Day at leisure with activities (payment direct); overnight lodge.

This three & a half-hour tour begins with a visit to Zanzibar’s colorful market. Alive with the buzz of locals bartering fresh vegetables and baskets of tropical fruit, amongst the heady smell of Jack fruit (amongst many other exotic fruits) we continue on to the site of a cathedral built in 1874. The cathedral signifies a potent time in Zanzibar’s history and stands on the sight of a past slave market. Abolished in 1873 by decree of the Sultan of Zanzibar, the cathedral’s high altar stands on the exact site of the whipping post that was in the market. From here we visit the residence of the late Sultan of Zanzibar, ‘Tip Tip House’, the Old Fort, ‘Peoples Palace’ and the House of Wonders’, full of intrigue from days of long ago. The tour ends with a stroll down the narrow streets of the old stone town, the heart of Zanzibar’s vivacious history.

This three & a half-hour tour is guaranteed to waken your senses, we visit spice plantations where you will the opportunity to pick, smell & savour fruits & spices that you have probably never seen on the supermarket shelf. Commencing at the ruins of the Maruhubi Palace, via the site of David Livingston’s house (one of Africa’s greatest explorers) the journey continues north of town towards the Kidichi Persian Baths. From here we continue to the rural areas were local farmers live & produce some of the world’s most exotic fruits and spices. Cloves, star fruit, ‘bulls heart’, tangerine trees, lemon grass, mangosteen and lip-stick trees to name but a few are what you can we expect to see – according to the seasons. Perhaps you will fancy buying a basket of freshly picked spices to take home with you.

This half a day tour boat ride to the island in a small wooden motorized boat is a must when visiting Zanzibar. Earning its namesake as a former prison for slaves, and a quarantine station for Kenya, Uganda and then Tanganyika, nowadays the island gives you the chance to escape for some peace and quiet! A hundred year old Giant Tortoises act as unlikely vigilant over the island and you cannot not help but wonder what tales they would tell if only they could talk! Approximately one kilometer long and a quarter of a kilometer wide, the location is perfect for swimming & snorkeling after a stroll round the island. Keep the best till last because it really is like diving into champagne the water is so clear.

This is a half a day tour. One of the many tiny islands dotted of Zanzibar’s west coast, Bawe is renowned for its exceptionally breathtaking marine life, becoming a popular site for both snorkeling and scuba diving.

This is a half a day tour. The island was formerly known as ‘French Island’ and has a cemetery that was reserved in 1879 by the ruling Sultan and was later consecrated by Bishop Steer (who built the famous Anglican Cathedral on the site of the old slave market) in 1880. The cemetery contains graves from residence of Zanzibar, officials and men of the Royal Navy and Merchant Marine amongst which are British sailors who were killed in action with a German cruiser in 1914.

This is a half a day tour. Jozani Forest is the only remaining natural forest on Unguja Island (which along with Pemba make up the islands of Zanzibar). To have a complete forest tour, you must make a visit in all 3 parts of the forest including a re-planted species of trees from different part of the world which most of them are medicinal plants, they are over 100m long, the forest sustain a wide variety of wildlife and birds, including the rare Red Colobus Monkey, it’s 10 kilometers of swamp forests and evergreen thickets provide a unique glimpse into a secretive world, you will then visit the natural bushes where are the home of red Colobus monkeys before you take a very relaxing walk into a well twisted wooden bridge crossing over the shadow of the varieties mangrove species, you must ask your guide about the close association between the witch doctors of Jozani & leopard found in the forest’s thickest recesses, and mystical tales that have surrounded the reserve dating back to when tigers inhabited the forest.

This full day tour takes you to Kizimkazi along the south-west coast of Zanzibar, upon arrival at the fishing village Kizimkazi you will have a brief talk about the behavior and different types of dolphins before proceeding to the dolphins locations with 80% chances to see them. There is a fair chance you will get to play and swim with them, returning to the sea shore in the afternoon.

This is a full day tour. North coast tour – This trip leads you through one spice farm, Mangapwani slave chambers and on to the beautiful white sand beaches of Nungwi.

This is a full day tour. Forget fishing in a modern fishing vessel with the latest in reels and rods and a fighting chair. We offer visitors the unique opportunity to sail out to sea with a Zanzibari fisherman and see what ‘fishing for a living’ is all about. Whilst the crews are busy preparing fishing nets the timelessness of this tradition will carry you far from the modern world’s pace. On returning to Zanzibar Island we will take you to see the colorful and bustling fish market where the fresh catches of the day are auctioned.