Bush Tour
BUSH TOUR – (SWAHILI CULTURE) 4 Hrs
Coconut Palms, Thatching, Baskets, Weaving, Pottery, Grinding Millets, Rice, Coconut Rope Making, Coconut Palm Climbing, Local Cuisine Cooking, Zanzibar Aroma and Incense, Construction of Local Homes, Bread Making, Spices, Banana Plantations, Seasonal Fruits, Local Koranic Schools, Local Traditional Music/Songs and Dancers.
The four – hour guided tour begins and ends at your hotel where you will be driven to Village on outskirts of Zanzibar Town. Here you will able to see white walking through the farm village and capitalising on the village life of the locals who are always busy carrying on with their daily activities like: grinding millets with mortar pestles; thatching coconut palms; preparation of bread for evening meal – guests are welcome to taste -. We move further to see locals climbing Coconut Palm Tree – guests to try it out -; coconut products – madafu milk; baskets; rope; coconut palm caps. Further a field cassava plantation and bananas with their various products can be seen and tasted – cassava chips; grilled cassava; ripe banana with coconut, grilled banana; spices; weaving of baskets, floor mats, brooms, food covers etc. Koranic Schools will also be visited. We proceed to the last stop to be welcomed by drumbeats where guests are requested to participate with refreshments of fruits of the season and mineral water and soft drinks. This traditional trip organised at evening time as a part of funny trip.
September 14, 2008