Today we were up fairly early and headed off back to stone town. We've been mooching around the markets and back streets, got a bit lost but it was great. We walked miles, and spent a good few hours trying to find the old slave market area. Zanzibar was the latest fully working slave trade centre and pretty interesting, a big part of their history. We managed to find a cash point on the way back as we've all spent quite a lot more than we had thought we would, an...

Lovely lie in until 9 this morning before we grabbed a bit of breakfast and dropped by the dive shop to rent snorkels. She took a while to fit flippers and stuff so we didn't end up getting in the water at the right time. It was getting low and there was sea urchins everywhere! We made a few people laugh in the restaurant overlooking the beach as we'd made a big deal of putting flippers on waddling down the sand then walking backwards into the waves trying not to...

This morning we met the group for breakfast and were picked up from the hotel, we all headed off to the spice plantations. I wasn't expecting too much from this but it was really interesting we walked around a forest with our own spice boy guide. We looked at all different kinds of spices and fruits, some we sniffed, some we tasted straight off the plant (black pepper was particularly strong!!) and some kind of African lipstick from a bright red fruit that we had...

Up at 6, but our tour guide treated us to pancakes for breakfast which went down a treat. Usually we have cereal and toast options from the side of the truck with tea/coffee and powdered milk. An army of Tuk-tuks quickly arrived to take us down to the ferry port which would take us on to Zanzibar. This was a bit of a hair raising experience it felt a bit like bumper cars without actual contact but they were cutting each other up all over the place. We got to the ...

Today was just a very long transit drive- 12-14 hours to get down to Dar Es Salam, hence the early get up. Me and Amy were very proud of ourselves as we were first up for breakfast after putting our tent down and helping someone else. We drove a while before the sun came up and had a few stop offs for a quick wee in the bush- avoiding potential snakes and termite mounds (learning from our first bush stop where we thought a termite mound taller than us was a good ...