Spice Plantations Tour_Half Day

Spice Plantations Tour_Half Day

We are funny, knowledgeable and experienced guides. We work together with our local community. Our tours are designed to supporting the local community and ourselves as the local guides. If you buy our tours you contribute and support the local community directly. This tour can be combined with other tours like Stone town walking tour, Prison Island, Jozani forest, Dolphin trip or Dhow sunset cruise.

Zanzibar was known as a spice island, exporting cloves, vanilla, nutmeg, and cardamom across the world. The spices were brought from Asia and South America and flourished in the tropical climate. Nowadays the spice tour is one of the most popular excursions on the island. Walk through the spice farm with your guide – touch, smell and taste different spices of seasonal tropical fruits. Try to guess which is which, from the crushed leaves, the fruits, shoots and vines and creepers crawling up the trees. Learn about their properties, their origins and their use as medicines and in food and drink. A visit to the spice farm gives you an insight into local life and the opportunity to try some Swahili dishes and try some spiced tea. An optional delicious local lunch of a spice rice dish prepared with the spices introduced to you during the tour is available. 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 lives and more! Seasonal tropical fruits include banana, pineapple, jackfruit, custard fruit, oranges, star fruit, tangerine, passion fruit, mango, avocado, rambutan, papaya, and many others.