Zanzibar Cooking Class [Swahili food test ] and Spice farm Private tour
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Description
Visit an organic spice farm on this 3-hour guided tour to learn about one of Zanzibar’s most popular industries: spices. Discover how the islands produce cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, black pepper, etc. See why the Zanzibar Archipelago, is called the "Spice Islands". When you arrive, the spice farm guide will describe how the spices are grown and used as medication and flavor in dishes. See spices like vanilla, cardamom, nutmeg, and many more. You’ll be able to touch, smell, and taste the spices and herbs directly from plants you’ve never smelled spices as fresh as these before. Along with these fragrant plants, there will also be some fresh tropical fruits to see and taste. Later, take the opportunity to meet with mama Africa to join a cassava leaf harvest, make coconut milk, and practice some cooking. before, a coconut tree climber will pick some fresh young coconut fruits for you to try. End the trip with lunch at the spice farm and the opportunity to purchase spices from the shop.
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Itinerary
Visit an organic spice farm on this 3-hour guided tour to learn about one of Zanzibar’s most popular industries: spices. Discover how the islands produce cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, black pepper, and more. See why the Zanzibar Archipelago, called the "Spice Islands". When you arrive, the spice farm guide will describe how the spices are grown and used as medication and flavor in dishes. See spices like vanilla, cardamom, nutmeg, and many more. You’ll be able to touch, smell, and taste the spices and herbs directly from plants—you’ve never smelled spices as fresh as these before. Along with these fragrant plants, there will also be some fresh tropical fruits to see and taste.
After 3 hour tours through spice farm now the time to meet with Mama Africa with her Swahili dishes .Later, take the opportunity to join a cassava leaf harvest, make coconut milk, and practice some cooking Swahili food mix with spice that you collect it before
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
We will pick up all guests at the reception of the hotel so they have to be ready 10 minutes be fore departure time
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(7)
Highly recommend doing the tour and cooking class. We got picked up in stone town did the tour with our wonderful guide. After the tour we got to work chopping and helping make our lunch that was delicious 😋 It was a wonderful experience using the spices we learned about
Very fun and full of discoveries. We have seen and discovered how the different spices we use every day are grown. The cooking class was very nice, too bad our guide did not do translation as we could not talk with the two women we were cooking with. Recommended activity
+great customer service (Amina was our guide) -you’ll want to plan to tip several different people (guide, cooking class, coconut drink, driver) so have a lot of change in cash or shillings as they do not take cards for that or purchases. It’s definitely deserving but I’d like to just tip one person then have them divide it out. -cooking class is not like shown in the picture for this excursion, you will be cooking on the ground. +the food was great from the cooking class experience -you didn’t have to pay to use bathrooms but they aren’t in the best condition
Our group of three had a very enjoyable experience. Our tour guide and his assistant were knowledgeable and personable, and the farm had many spices, as well as cacao and vanilla. The cooking class at the end was fun and the resulting meal was beyond delicious, we agreed. The only reasons the raring isn’t 5 stars: (1) Their driver went to the wrong hotel to pick us up, throwing our schedule off several hours. (2) When the chef had finished cooking the meal, she scooped up portions of everything and put them aside, presumably for her family. She then served us and we ate. We definitely had no problem with her keeping food, since we couldn’t have possibly eaten it all, but her timing was a little off-putting since we were guests and we paid for it.
I had a wonderful day from pick-up to return to the hotel. A whole caring team. The guide Jean Bosco shared his expertise with me on each plant on the farm. The cooking class with Fatouma and her sister was awesome. I would definitely make this dish again at home.
