ZANZIBAR (PART II, RURAL)
Zanzibar is an island about 30 miles off the east coast of Tanzania. It is a part of Tanzania, even though it is semi-autonomous.
These pics are from the rural areas, including the red colobus monkey habitat and nearby rainforest, the spice tour, a rural beach and nearby cave. Go here for the pics from urban Zanzibar.
Zanzibar's rare red colobus monkeys in the southeast part of the island (only about 2200 exist)...
Some tacky tourists, mostly from Italy (the guy on the right went up and actually touched one of the monkeys, even though that's forbidden)...
Nearby rainforest (with red mahogany, Calophyllum inophyllum, being the dominant tree)...
Large sycamore fig (Ficus sycomorus), native to a variety of habitats from southern Africa to the Middle East (from desert to the rainforest!)...
Another tree with a wide and diverse range (one of the largest in the world) from Senegal to Saudi Arabia to South Africa, desert to rainforest, the Senegal Date Palm (Phoenix reclinata)...
Raphia palm (probably Raphia farinifera)...
Another Ficus in the rainforest (Ficus natalensis)...
Pandanus (screw pine)...
African oil palms (Elaeis guineensis)...
The next 12 pics will be from a Zanzibar spice tour...
Here's a nutmeg tree...
Closer up...
Nutmeg fruit...
Clove tree...
Cacao...
Cacao branch...
Annatto (lipstick tree)...
Lipstick fruit (used for both food color and flavoring)...
Vanilla vine...
Vanilla beans (and "farmer")...
Cinnamon tree (the bark is harvested for the spice)...
Strange reddish bugs (possibly a type of beetle or weevil)...
Kidichi Persian bath (built in 1850, no longer used)...
Rural public transportation in Zanzibar...
Mangapwani Coral Cave--a place next to the coast where slaves were hidden in the 1800s... (first pic is a small pond in the cave)
Snake in the cave...
Small sea cave...
A nice beach in rural Zanzibar (with lots of screw pines)...
A sandier section of that beach (where people and boats can actually go in and out)...
A grove of coconut palms just inland from that beach...
All of the above pictures on this page were taken in March 2008 by Brandt Maxwell.
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