LOSE YOURSELF IN STONE TOWN
Exploring the labyrinth of narrow streets and alleyways in Stone Town on the spice island of Zanzibar is like walking through 2000 years of history. As early as the 1st century AD, northeast monsoon winds bore merchants from Arabia, Persia and beyond to this Indian Ocean archipelago off the coast of Tanzania. Their dhows arrived with porcelain, cloth and beads, and they returned home laden with ivory, gold and ebony. Later, in the 8th and 9th centuries, Islam was carried to Zanzibar on the same trade winds. Many of the indigenous people of the East African coast and its offshore islands adopted the new religion. They called themselves Swahili – from the Arabic word sahil, meaning ‘of the coast’. Gradually, the Swahili intermarried with Arabian and Shirazi (Persian) settlers, laying the foundation for Zanzibar’s intriguing history and cultural mêlée.
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