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Zanzibar, Tanzania
6 places worth your time in Zanzibar, with what each is actually like and when to go.
A UNESCO-listed maze of coral-rag houses, carved doors and Omani, Indian and African layers.
A short boat ride offshore, with giant Aldabra tortoises and a quarantine station that never held prisoners.
The north-coast beaches, where the tide does not strand the swimming the way it does elsewhere.
The only place to see the endemic Zanzibar red colobus, in protected mangrove and forest.
Working plantations of clove, nutmeg, vanilla and cinnamon — the trade the island was built on.
The Omani fort and the seafront gardens beside it, where the night food market sets up.
