Stone Town and Prison Island

Birthday! Amos planned a fun excursion day over to the west part of Zanzibar to explore Stone Town and Prison Island. A fruit bowl was a must to start the day with some energy for all the walking we were going to do, we then began our venture over to Ye Old Fort where we could climb up and look out from the top, as well as wonder all the markets inside and around. On our way to explore St Joseph’s Cathedral, we stopped for a quick photo opp for amos outside the Freddie Mercury museum which was a very busy and buzzing part of town. St Joseph’s Cathedral was a beautiful old church which is still used very week which had some amazing paintings inside.
Our last stop before heading over to Prison Island was The Slavery exhibition at the Anglican Church, we had a guide that took us inside the beautiful stained glass window church and sat us down to begin telling us all about the slavery that once was in Zanzibar, a lot of it was very interesting and showed explained why the church was where it was and the meaning of its structure.
Late evening was coming and we quickly got a boat over to Prison island to see the giant tortoises, one being almost 200 years old.
As the sun set, back in the main land, we had some dinner at the night food markets and ended with a drink at a rooftop restaurant to finish the day.
An amazing and fun birthday, exploring a foreign country with my best friend.. what more could I want. Thank you Amos ❤️Les mer