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The Dark Side of the Moon

Travel by dhow to Zanzibar: the full moon…

I give up my life for a vague dream awakened in pages read in volumes of youthful adventures, travel books, Navigation trials. And now just wait for the moon and tides make it possible to lift the hulls of 10 meters of Jahazi, beached on the sand of Africa, without rigging or covered, as abandoned tortoise shells.

byJuan Ramon Morales

19 December, 2012

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The cells of slaves from Zanzibar

Next to the Stone Town's Anglican Cathedral, under what is now a hostel, they can…

byJavier Brandoli

20 Oct., 2010

Decadent city and the Masai from the beach

Everything in Zanzibar is pleasing to the senses. Lovely people and conversations with them anecdotes accumulate. Two weeks on this island, including aircraft, can be introduced into the environment of the 1.200 EUR. Just avoid the luxury hotels.

byJavier Brandoli

7 Oct., 2010

Zanzibar: smiles smell of cloves

The earliest sunsets of the tropics are yellow and red. The nights are spent in restaurants lit with torches and glasses are taken from the deck chairs

byJavier Brandoli

4 Oct., 2010

Zanzibar: explorers home, slave nightmare

Zanzibar, the pearl of the Indian, essence of odor and taste, is a mask with two faces disparate. Starting point of the great explorers of the nineteenth century was also, for centuries, one of the nerve centers of the slave trade, the most terrible wound in the heart of Africa.

byRicardo Coarasa

22 July, 2010

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