THE
SPICE OF LIFE
Zanzibar's colourful history is a saga of travellers and traders,raiders
and colonisers.To its shores came Summerians,Assyrians,Chinese,Malays,Persians,Portuguese,Arabs,Dutch
and the British,each leaving behing a legacy of their stay.From
the island the great European explorers - Burton,Speke,Livingstone,Stanley
- set off for their voyages of discovery into the vast,uncharted
wilderness of the great African hinterland.
Bantu tribes from mainland were the first inhabitants of the
island,but by 700 AD the Indian Ocean traders had brought Persians
and Arabs to its shores.It was the intermarriage of the Arabs
with the native inhabitants that gave birth to a new people and
language,the Kiswahili(Swahili).
Zanzibar,evokes dreams of romance and mystery and the reality
will not disappoint the traveller bored with mass tourism and
seeking and enlightening and enjoyable holiday experience.
THE
SPICE OF LIFE
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