While Africa is mostly known for its beautiful savanna, there is a city with its own unique natural beauty. Zanzibar is part of Tanzania and it is best known for its beautiful beaches and historic center. Not only that, Zanzibar also has many other extravagant places that would make you wanted to stay longer in this city and enjoying its beauty. This city has been famous since decades ago due to its location as a trading city and until now that fame never fades.
Known to have many beautiful beaches, Zanzibar has attracting more tourists to come to their city. One of the outstanding beaches in Zanzibar is the Paje Beach. Located in southeastern area of Zanzibar, this beach is widely known amongst tourists especially kite-surfers. The weather is warm, the water is waist deep and gets deeper as you leave the beach but with sandy bottom which makes it a perfect place for a beginner. The tide itself is ranging from 1 m to 6 m but most of the days it goes for 3 m to 4 m. If you are not kite-surfers, this beach also welcomes you with many other activities such as swimming, surfing or diving in its beautiful sea. Even though Paje Beach is pretty popular but the beach itself is very clean and less tourists in here, the white sand and crystal water in a clean and friendly environment are the plus point of this beach. If you are tired after swimming all day, there are a lot of cafés and bars in Paje Beach that will enlighten your nightlife.
Experiencing the historical lifestyle in Zanzibar is possible if you know the right place. You should visit Stone Town, a town where the infrastructure and the architecture hardly change for the last 200 years. The alleys, bazaars, mouse and houses layout is still the same and the community knows each other, showing the close relationship in this city. The architecture of this city is dating back to the 19th century with unique mixture of Arab, Persian, Indian and European architecture style. Although Stone Town is very crowded with tourists, Stone Town is still a city where the locals live and work, you would probably want to be more careful with the alleys because there are many motorbikes passing around. Coming to Stone Town, you might want to take a walk and see the variety of architecture in this place which is quite stunning, most of the houses still use coralline rock which gives sense of the past to the building.
You will not regret having to spend your holiday in Zanzibar, because the beauty of this city does not stop in the beautiful beaches and unique town. In here, you can see the largest butterfly paradise in East Africa. The Zanzibar Butterfly Center has more than 100 species of butterflies roaming free in here. The butterfly that exhibits in here is mostly natives to the island and when you visit this place you will be able to see the lifecycle of the butterflies. Guided with experience trainers, this place is considered best as family recreation. You can spend a day in here with your family, enjoying new experience of butterfly watching and moreover additional knowledge about butterflies.