Today you will enjoy one of the island’s highlight attractions – Prison Island Tour – a fantastic half-day boat excursion from Stone Town, combining wildlife encounters with fascinating history and beautiful scenery, with the main highlight being the chance to see the famous Aldabra Giant Tortoises. In the evening, visit the nearby Forodhani Gardens for a memorable, authentic local encounter and experience its open-air food market. Stone Town or Mji Mkongwe in Swahili, meaning “ancient town,” is the capital and cultural heart of Zanzibar, where little has changed in the last 200 years, and is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

• Main Destination: Zanzibar Stone Town
• Accommodation: Tembo House Hotel, a mid-range hotel located in Zanzibar Stone Town
• Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)
  • Drinks not included

Enjoy a walking tour of Stone Town – visiting historical sites, the bustling market, while passing the narrow streets with fascinating architecture, with curved Zanzibar doors and bustling bazaars. Shopping is a highlight of the tour – from clothes, carvings, paintings, to expensive jewelry. Experience a guided walk through a spice plantation – to touch the barks, roots, vines, and creepers crawling up the trees, smell and taste the crushed leaves, while trying to guess the spice and learning about medicinal properties. Depending on the season you are visiting, you can find anything from vanilla, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, turmeric, lemon grass, cloves, ginger, coriander, pepper, allspice, chili, curry leaves, and more! Seasonal tropical fruits are also to be found on the farm – banana, pineapple, jackfruit, custard fruit, oranges, star fruit, tangerine, passion fruit, mango, avocado, rambutan, papaya, and many others. Continue to Michamvi Beach on the east coast of the island.

• Main Destination: Michamvi Beach
• Accommodation: Legendary Zanzibar Beach Resort, a mid-range resort located on Michamvi Beach
• Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast & dinner (Lunch not included)
  • Drinks not included

Visit Jambiani Village on the southeast coast for a guided walking tour that will take you through the streets of this cozy, laid-back, authentic, and friendly village to experience the real life of the locals. Experience the social life and daily activities, and especially the inspiring role of the woman in daily life among the villagers, culture and religion, as well as the positive contributions of tourism to the local socio-economy. Learn the coconut fibre rope-making skills and the seaweed farming, whose many farms dot the coastline and employ over 15,000 locals, mainly women, with Zanzibar producing around 11,000 tons of the global seaweed each year, a large amount of this coming from Jambiani village. Your tour ends with the experience of a truly authentic taste of the local Zanzibar cuisine in the home of one of the locals. Continue to Michamvi Kae Beach for a golden sundowner hour, while in fun, friendly, and cool company and tasteful DJ music.

• Main Destination: Michamvi Beach
• Accommodation: Legendary Zanzibar Beach Resort, a mid-range resort located on Michamvi Beach
• Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast & dinner (Lunch not included)
  • Drinks not included

Michamvi Beach is a beautiful and serene destination on the east coast, known for its stunningly spectacular postcard-perfect sunsets and relaxed atmosphere – a perfect choice for nature lovers and those looking for a peaceful escape with pristine, uncrowded shores. Michamvi is a peninsula and is divided into two main sections – the more secluded Michamvi Kae and the slightly more developed Michamvi Pingwe, also home to the iconic Rock Restaurant. Not a party destination. Today you will enjoy a leisurely day at the resort’s fully equipped gym, relaxing by the swimming pool, or on the beach. You could also choose (at extra cost) some of the other top activities – snorkeling and scuba diving at Blue Lagoon; long, wild beaches perfect for walks at low tide to explore the exposed sand flats and tidal pools teeming with starfish, crabs, and other marine life; and dhow boat trips. There are limited shops, a few beachfront restaurants.

• Main Destination: Michamvi Beach
• Accommodation: Legendary Zanzibar Beach Resort, a mid-range resort located on Michamvi Beach
• Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast & dinner (Lunch not included)
  • Drinks not included

Spend another leisurely day at the resort. Michamvi Beach is also home to The Rock Restaurant – a must-visit place in Zanzibar – described as “world-famous, known for its iconic location, fabulous food, as fresh as possible from the ocean and the farms, and character. Inspired by natural resources, a strong twist of Zanzibar, and mountains of Italian love – an experience for all your senses – is a restaurant on a rock in the ocean”, which rises a short distance from the shore of the beautiful Michamvi Pingwe Beach on Zanzibar’s east coast. The restaurant is reached off the beach on foot at low tide or by boat at high tide, and guests can, if they wish, wade out. Today, you could also choose (at extra cost) to enjoy a special lunch at The Rock Restaurant as an icing to your blissful Zanzibar island holiday.

• Main Destination: Michamvi Beach
• Accommodation: Legendary Zanzibar Beach Resort, a mid-range resort located on Michamvi Beach
• Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast & dinner (Lunch not included)
  • Drinks not included

Today is your last day in Zanzibar! Depending on your departure flight time, you can choose to relax by the swimming pool or on the beach. You could also choose to explore the island a little further. Or even book an add-on experience to your holiday – to Pemba Island, to Mafia Island, or a safari or climb Mount Kilimanjaro in mainland Tanzania. You’ll be dropped off at the airport.