THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PICTURES

Real places.
Real photographs.

Our imagery is photography, not generated scenery. Photographs are resized and cropped for this site. Their respective licences continue to apply to the images; they do not apply to the website as a whole.

• Hero: sunset dhow, photographed from Zanzibar’s Stone Town waterfront (archive photograph; buildings may have changed) — Winky, Dhow in sunset, CC BY 2.0.
• Carved Stone Town door — Kgbo, Stone Town, Zanzibar, 2021, 38, CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Spice farm in Zanzibar — Irene, CC BY 2.0.
• Zanzibar coast — Sansibar-freundeskreis.de, CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Stone Town waterfront — Mbz1, Zanzibar sultan palace, CC BY-SA 3.0.
• Serengeti landscape — Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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Further reading

UNESCO: Stone Town of Zanzibar provides historical context and World Heritage information. For current travel information, visit Tanzania Immigration and Visit Zanzibar.

About this guide

Access Zanzibar is an independent Pin Destinations publication, not an official tourism authority. Suggested routes are editorial inspiration, subject to conditions and confirmation. No accommodation, departure, price or wildlife sighting is guaranteed.