Stone Town Private Walking Tour
Description
It's fascinating to explore historic Stone Town - a UNESCO World Heritage Site - but it's easy to lose your way in the area's maze-like, narrow streets. To stay oriented and ensure you don't miss key highlights, join a private guide with deep knowledge of local history, cultural heritage and architecture. It's fully personalized to your preferences, whether you're shopping for local textiles, interested in history, knowing about everyday life, or learning about Stone Town's unique architecture!
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This tour will give you an excellent way of familiarizing yourself with Stone Town’s geography, history, architecture and culture. This fascinating excursion leads you through a maze of narrow streets that boasts more than 2000 limestone buildings, covering an area of 50 hectares and with a population of 18000 living in the suburbs. With its defined and overlapping African, Arab, Indian, Persian and European elements, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. Zanzibar and Stone Town are truly cosmopolitan. After a visit to the Anglican Cathedral (former slave market), House of Wonders (national museum), Palace museum, the Old Fort, Darajani market, Hamamni Baths, Catholic Cathedral, Freddy Mercury house and experiencing the hustle and bustle of the streets, the bazaar full of coffee drinkers and the beautiful doors of Zanzibar, you too will bear witness that Stone Town is a cultural crossroads and that it is worthy of its world heritage title. Also take the time to explore the markets where local people purchase their daily requirements and also a market street full of colourful textiles. Whether you are interested in history, culture, architecture, renovation work, or just a shopaholic, your guide can adapt your tour to your needs. They will share amusing, but also cruel stories, about the life and culture of the old times in Stone Town and then safely deposit you back where your tour started/ the place you were met.
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- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(408)
Very informative walking tour of Stone Town. Our guide gave us a quick history lesson on Zanzibar before walking us through various parts of town, including some markets. It was a little confusing about where to meet because the old fort is under construction, but we were able to call the office and then find our guide in the park in front of the fort.
Muhammad was a wonderful guide - very knowledgable and informative! A fantastic experience learning about the history of Stone Town and Zanzibar.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent Experience Bella Gonzalez, Our full-day tour with Zan Mango Travel & Tours was the highlight of our Zanzibar holiday! Everything was perfectly organized by Khatib, we experienced safe, comfortable and enjoyable transfers from hotel pickup to the final drop-off. Our guide was friendly, professional, and very knowledgeable about every place we visited. We explored Stone town, Prison islanda and Nakupenda sandbank without feeling rushed. Communication was excellent from start to finish. We found beautiful atmosphere for any apart we reached as fees was very friendly price affordable to us which our budget successeful. both two of us were very happy. We highly recommend Zan Mango Travel & Tours to anyone visiting Zanzibar. We will definitely book again on our next trip!
The tour with Mohammed was super great he first gave us the historical information and was helpful and patient during the tour through the town and know exactly what we’re looking for and directed us the best way I would recommend having him as your tour if your looking for the best
Imran gave us a fantastic tour of Stone Town! He was prompt, knowledgeable very friendly and accommodating and gave us a great background and the history of what makes this town so special. Our teenage children also enjoyed it! Highly recommend!
Mohamed gave us a thoroughly interesting and highly informative walking tour of Stone Town. Mohamed was incredibly knowledgable and we loved learning about the history and the culture of the town. Thoroughly recommended.
Imran is an exceptional guide. He is very knowledgable and delivers the history Stone town factually and with no bias. We really enjoyed his company for the few hours.
We had our tour with Imran. He was very knowledgeable, fun and was always ready to answer our every question. We booked the tour expecting it would take us two hours, but Imran made sure he was available for even longer than that, and did not rush us at any point, allowing us to take it at a chill pace and sharing so many interesting details about the history of the island, politics, religion and life in Zanzibar in general. We had a great time and were very happy with his flexibility and willingness to share as much as he could with us. Would recommend to anyone interested in learning more about Zanzibar!
The tour was wonderful and exaxtly what we were looking for with a froup ranging in age from six to seventy! A very large thank-you to Imran for his excellent guiding abilities and his patience with our very active six-year old! He was exactly the tour guide we wanted and needed. We learned so much about the people, history and culture. He worked with our pace and let us stop as needed. It was a great experience and we fully recommend it to everyone. Also, ask for Imran- you wont be disappointed!
Mohammad led us on an informative and interesting tour of Stone Town. Highlights included the former slave market, the many doors of Zanzibar, and the fish market (hold your nose!) Our guide was knowledgeable and amiable.
