After driving through the town to the hotel Kempinski we arrived at the gates of a lavish resort. The rooms were immaculate, the resort had every luxury you could imagine. As they prepared for a banquet that evening, I took advantage of taking a long bubble bath, soaking into the terry cloth robe and slippers left for us and quickly tuning into MTV, CNN and BET...sorry, I'm addicted. After a little R&R I took a walk around the resort and took it all in. The evening banquet was equally decadent and fitting for the kings and queens that we are....I could get used to this.
Photos and video below:
The next morning before we departed we were taken to the Spice Market, where the locals make many of their spices such as cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, which is one of Zanzibar's main inudstries. Another major trade good was ivory, the tusks of elephants killed in mainland Africa. The third pillar of the economy was slaves, giving Zanzibar an important place in the Arab slave trade, the Indian Ocean equivalent of the better-known Triangular Trade. Zanzibar City was the main trading port of the East African slave trade, with about 50,000 slaves a year passing through the city.[2] The Sultan of Zanzibar controlled a substantial portion of the East African coast, known as Zanj, which included Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, and trading routes which extended much further inland, such as to Kindu on the Congo River. We visited the area where the slaves were held. You will see in photos.
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