Heaven on Earth? The Zanzibar coast from the sky.
Photograph by Jesper Anhede / Genberg Art UW Ltd
When Jonathan and Bronwyn Earl first flew up from South Africa to Pemba for a holiday in 2008, they thought it would be a one-off visit. But so taken were they with the island that they have been coming back not just every year but twice a year. Jonathan proposed on Pemba, they got married on Pemba and they celebrate their anniversary every year on Pemba. For the two of them, like many others, its magnetic allure makes it one of the most special places in Africa.
Zanzibar, or Unguja as the locals know it, and Pemba are the two principal islands of the 50 or so that make up the Zanzibar Archipelago, some 25-50km off Tanzania. Zanzibar is the biggest, with Pemba about two-thirds of the size, but each is quite different from the other. While Zanzibar is predominantly flat and sandy, Pemba is hilly, fertile and heavily forested with mangrove ecosystems. Zanzibar has a population of more than a million and more than 200 hotels, while Pemba has 300,000 residents and its hotels can be counted on one hand. If the pace of life on the former can be a little frenetic, it is altogether slower on Pemba. The two enjoy semi autonomy, being part of Tanzania, but in control of their own affairs, apart from foreign policy and defence.
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