Full-Day Zanzibar Slave Trade Historical Walk
Highlights
Zanzibar
nature, historical, walking
Group Tour
1 Day
Medium
English
Description
Join this excursion designed to see the main sites of the infamous trade and to have knowledge about the slave trade in Zanzibar. Sites like the Dhow Harbour, Mbweni Ruins, Mangapwani's slave chambers, coral caves, Livingstone House, and more will expand your horizon.
Itinerary
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Zanzibar Slave Trade Tour
Meet your tour guide at the agreed-upon location to begin with your tour.
Explore Zanzibar, commonly known as an important centre for the slave trade along the eastern coast of Africa. This Zanzibar trade left significant historical sites which are rich with huge of interesting information.
Visit the main sites of the infamous trade and have knowledge about the slave trade in Zanzibar.
Begin your excursion at the Dhow Harbour in Malindi, where slave ships brought their human cargo from Tanganyika (Bagamoyo) to Zanzibar and on to the world beyond.
Head to the house of Tippu Tip, the notorious Arab slave trader. The tour continues at the Anglican Church, built by missionary Edward Steere on the old slave market, site of human misery for hundreds of years, all of these sites are in stone town.
Finish the stone town sites and drive to Mbweni, past the missionary graves to visit Mbweni Ruins, formerly a school for freed slave girls, before heading to Livingstone House and onto Mangapwani Beach.
Discover the slave chambers which were used as a place of concealment of the human cargo waiting for the monsoons and the arrival of the dhows to be exiled away from home at the time of the abolishment of the slave trade.
Walk through the Coral caves with a pond of fresh water. This cave was also used to hide slaves after the legal abolition of slavery on the island.
Reflect, relax on the golden sands of the beach and enjoy a buffet lunch at Mangapwani Restaurant, which is operated at Zanzibar Serena Inn.
End of the tour.
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Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.