Streets of Stone Town

One of the “must-do” activities when traveling to Zanzibar, Tanzania, is to visit historic Stone Town and its many attractions. And one of the most popular attractions in Stone Town is simply to explore the maze of historic streets and alleys. You could spend days and days doing this without getting bored. Jennifer and I stayed in Stone Town for two full days, which was just enough time to take it all in. Here is a selection of images from our wanderings, with a specific focus on the streets of the old town.

Stone Town (مدينة زنجبار الحجرية), also known as MJi Mkongwe in Swahili, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The World Heritage Site includes the old part of Zanzibar City, the main city of Zanzibar in Tanzania. Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous province consisting of an archipelago of islands on the coast of East Africa, which united with the mainland Republic of Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.