Take a Spice Tour
A holiday like no other
A Zanzibar spice tour will excite your senses of smell and taste. It is also one of the tours that helps you understands the Swahili cuisine in this ancient town. Spices in Zanzibar were introduced by the Portuguese in the 16th century. These were being used for curative purposes, barter trade and even in textile coloring.
From then spice farming has been of great economic importance in Zanzibar. Sometime back, Zanzibar was the world largest producer of cloves in the world. A spice tour in Zanzibar gives you an opportunity to see and even taste some of the spices on this farms. You can also engage in cooking lessons thus enabling you to sample some of the spices in food.
The farms are within close proximity to stone town. The spices include cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, turmeric, ginger, lemongrass saffron, peppers and vanilla and durian. Other farms are also rich in tropical fruits which include pineapples, jackfruits, Papaya, coconuts and oranges.
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