The itinerary for 5 days 4 nights Zanzibar beach holiday tour package
5 days 4 nights Zanzibar beach holiday package will give you a chance for relaxation. During your vacation, you will have fun at white sand beaches after a long safari adventure or mountain climbing.
You will visit and experience Zanzibar’s top tourist spots. This includes Mnemba Island for a Dolphin tour, and Prison Island for snorkeling, and sunbathing.
Also, you'll see the big land tortoises, some of which age up to a hundred years. You will also visit a spice plantation tour to explore various spices in the farming process.
You will see how they plant, harvest, dry, and process to the final consumption stage. Lastly, you will wind up with the tour package for the Stone Town tour. This is the town that will bring us face-to-face to history.
Day 1: Arrival for 5-day Zanzibar beach holiday
You will start your safari with a 1-hour morning flight from the Airport to Zanzibar. On arrival at the Airport, you will meet our driver for the transfer to your accommodation place in Stone Town. From that, you will rest and have lunch in your room.
Afternoon private guided Stone Town Walking Tour. Stone Town is rich with the history, culture, and architecture of the diverse peoples that have called the island home.
A walking tour is the only way to truly experience this ancient city. The city still exists today, much as it did when Zanzibar was a great trading center.
This city is famous the world over for spices, ivory, and slaves. The two-and-a-half-hour tour takes you through the streets and back alleys of Stone Town.
In addition, there are famous and infamous spots in this place. This includes the location of the slave market, Sultans’ palaces, and Beit el Ajaib (House of Wonders).
Also, the old Arab Fort, artists’ studios, and museums. Feel the rhythm of life in the main marketplace for Zanzibar.
The location is alive with the chatter of locals bargaining in Swahili. And the vibrant palette of colors from the fabrics, tropical fruits, spices, and intricately carved wooden handicrafts.
Meals: Lunch and Dinner.
Day 2: Mnemba Island to Dolphin tour
After breakfast, we will start heading up north of the Island to Mnemba. From 8:30hrs we will take a boat and go for Dolphin tour. When we find the Dolphins, you can decide to jump and swim with them or just stay in the boat.
Also, you may watch them do belly flops in the water. But, the more fun is when you get closer enough to touch and swim with them.
So far, at 11:15hrs we arrive at the Oval reef measuring several miles in diameter. The boat will drop us off at the area near the Island, which is famous for its sea bed. The depth of the water is the same in all the reef areas (6-16ft/2-4 m).
You will find yourself above a reef of varying quality. Preservation of some areas is wonderful. While others seem damaged by the area's high visitors’ number.
Thin to consider at Mnemba Island
Note that, no fishing here! Therefore, the density of marine life here is higher than in many other places in Zanzibar. On the sea bed, look out for blue starfish, red-tabbed starfish, or the fearsome crown-of-thorns starfish, a poisonous, coral-eating species.
At this spot, you can see Green turtles. Since they go to the island's beaches to lay their eggs at certain times of the year. After a moment, you will have lunch At 13:00hrs.
You should consider bringing a piece of clothing to put by underneath. Furthermore, you'll enjoy when you sit and eat and the view of the ocean and beach itself at Mnemba.
Meanwhile, from 14:00hrs is relaxing and playing beach games at the Island of Mnemba. If you want to go for more snorkeling as well, it is okay. At 17:00hrs, we start heading back to your hotel.
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Day 3: Spice farm tour
After breakfast, take a private island Spice Tour. Visit a spice plantation where you will have the opportunity to enjoy the flavor. You can pick, smell and savor some of the world’s most exotic fruit & spices.
Many spices you have never seen on the supermarket shelf. Cloves, star fruit, bulls’ hearts, tangerine trees, lemon grass, mangos, and lipstick trees. Perhaps you will fancy buying a basket of freshly picked spices to take home with you.
After the tour, your driver will drop you off at your hotel.
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Day 4: Prison island tour
A mere 4 kilometers and 20 minutes boat ride from the bustle of Stone Town lies quiet Changuu (Prison) Island. The island has been there since 1893 under Zanzibar’s British administration. But, the buildings become quarantine centers and not prisons.
The activities proceed, and you can visit at any time. A protected colony of giant tortoises – some over 100 years old – lives on the island. Moreover, the island has a number of rare bird species. The beach is superb, and the crystal clear sea is excellent for swimming, snorkeling, fishing, or diving.
You will snorkel, swim, enjoy the beautiful scenery of white sand beaches and explore the giant tortoises. Above all, at 4 pm, you will leave and go back to your hotel.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 5: Zanzibar Northeast coast tour and departure
Generally, after a final day at the beach, transfer in the afternoon to the Zanzibar airport. In short, this is the place where you can board your international flight home.
So far, this makes the end of your 5 days, 4 nights in Zanzibar beach holiday tour package of 2023/2024/2025.
Meals: Breakfast