Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Spice Tour and the Northern Beaches of Zanzibar

        We woke up and had breakfast at the hotel on the roof, I had cold french toast which was actually pretty good and then Dagny, my mom, and I got on our bus to the spice tour. The rest of the family stayed at the hotel to head to the next city later on. 

       The spice tour was a walk through a plantation where we smelled the leaves and bark of different trees of the spices and we learned about a plant growing on the ground called a mimosa plant which has leafs that move and shrink when you touch them. We also saw star fruit and jackfruit and then very large snails on our walk out of the plantation. Then we tried fruits and tea made and grown on the plantation before we drove to lunch.

       We had lunch in a house in the community and we ate spiced rice and chicken with cabbage and salad and it was pretty good. Then we drove to the other side of the island to our next hotel on the northern beaches. We put our stuff down and then my mom and I went to the beach and I then the pool. The beach on our hotel’s property is very small and there is very little dry sand so we got in the water and walked to the larger beach along the shore. There were horse rides in the water for people on the beach on the other side of us so we saw a lot of people riding horses through the water and one of them got loose from the handler after the person riding it got off and we helped them get it back. Then Dagny and Addie got massages before we went to dinner and watched people dancing and doing acrobatic routines on the beach. After dinner we went back to our rooms and went to bed. 

-Magnolia 

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