We left Dar in the morning when we first realised George Bush would be visiting by the time we came back from Zanzibar and was actually staying at the Kilimanjaro Hotel which we had just been looking around the day before. We caught the ferry at 10.30 and landed in Zanzibar at 12.30. Whatever image the name Zanzibar conjures up in your mind is probably just what Zanzibar is actually like. It is very Middle Eastern with a touch of Morocco and in a strange way the most European like place we had visited since arriving in Africa. The first thing that struck you was the heat and humidity it was hot, hot, hot. There are many old colonian buildings in Stonetown with many of the hotels being built from these old buildings ours included. The streets are a warren of tiny alleyways with traders selling their crafts and altogether a great place to spend a couple of days. Many people head for the beaches in Zanzibar but we were happy to just stay in town and enjoy the atmosphere of the laid back restaurants along the small beach.

Zanzibar was once used by the slave trade where slaves were kept and sold in the market in Stonetown and ended up in the Middle East. We went to the site of the slave market which now has a church built on top of it but there remains a monument built in memory of the many Africans sold there as slaves.