 Zanzibari dhows have been plying Indian Ocean waters for centuries |
The legendary spice and slave port of Zanzibar, just off the African coast, is famous for more than the large carved wooden doors with long brass-covered steel spikes which have been documented in more than 500 books. Go wandering about Stone Town, trying to make sense of a street plan quite possibly inspired by the entrails of some extinct beast, past covered balconies and stone coral-lime buildings in various states of disrepair, and somebody will eventually point out the one in which Farrokh Bulsara was born. The world came to know him better as Freddie Mercury. An exotic Swahili-speaking island, with forests of red colobus monkeys and luxurious beach resorts.
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