14/10: Stone Town

We had to take the ferry at 9:30 am this morning. So we were there an hour before like it said we should on the ticket. It took a while, but then we were on the boat in the VIP seating. At first we were like: “it’s cold!” in the good way, ten minutes later we were more like: “it’s really cold!” After about an hour and a half we arrived at the Zanzibar Town harbor. We were the last people to get out of the immigration office, but we did get out with a little help from our new friend. He even drove us to our accommodation at the Garden Lodge. We ate lunch at the breakfast terrace and afterwards we went out to explore Stone Town. We went down along the water’s edge to the old fort and the Forodhani garden. In the old fort we got henna tattoos after that it was already around 6 pm. We wanted to eat at the Forodhani garden because we knew that there would be a market of different foods to choose from. It was supposed to start at 7 pm, but there was some getting started at 6 pm. So I bought myself a Zanzibar pizza and enjoyed the view of the sea. Some brave (or cocky) boys were jumping into the sea, it didn’t seem deep enough by far which is probably why they didn’t dive with the head first. I felt like I was back on the Malecon in Havana again. Back then we were sitting at a hotel and we saw all these people sitting on the wall between the sea and the Malecon road. So we decided to go down and do the same. Once we were down there we choose a deserted part, but immediately a lot of people came to talk with us. We had to go soon after, but I remember it as a really great night. The same happened in the Forodhani garden; a guy came, George, and asked about our nationality and followed up with another question: “hvadhedderdu?” in one word. I was the only one, who got it at first, but we soon taught him all kinds of different things to say in Danish and he was actually kind of good at it. His friend Walex joined us and George even sang some Michael Jackson for us and he was actually quite good. It was nice to talk to people that didn’t want or need to sell us something for once. By then it was getting late and we had to get back to the hotel. Getting back we just talked for a while before going to sleep. A rather perfect day, something we really needed after the day before.