Spice Tour

Smell, taste and touch the spice gardens 5 km from Stone Town.

A holiday to Zanzibar would be incomplete without a visit to the spice plantations, and the tour is also the best way to see the countryside and meet rural communities. The most popular villages are Kizimbani and Kidichi, about five kilometres from Stone Town. Tours start at 08:30 and take two to three hours.

Guides pick leaves, fruits and twigs and invite you to smell or taste them and guess: cinnamon, turmeric, garlic, ginger, chillies, black pepper, nutmeg, cloves, vanilla and cardamom, alongside fruit from rose apple to guava and rare plants such as henna, ylang-ylang and the lipstick tree.