Discover Zanzibar's Fruit And Spice Plantations

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In recent years, Zanzibar, located in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Tanzania, has become renowned for its wonderful fruit and spice plantations found on the island. These tours have become popular amongst travelers as it affords them to the opportunity to enjoy Zanzibar’s generous hospitality as well as an education in the island’s harvesting and production of delicious local produce; many tour operators advertise a trip to these sites as part of their holiday packages.

Visiting a spice and fruit plantation is a stimulation overload with your senses guaranteed to be awakened by breathtaking scents, tantalizing aromas, and mouth-watering perfumes. Zanzibar has become known as the island of spice with tourists likely to find a wide variety of oriental spices including cloves, cinnamon, black pepper, ginger, nutmeg, and saffron amongst others. Spices play a pivotal part in Zanzibar’s economy with cloves being the island’s top export. The clove is utilized in a number of ways namely in curry powders and pickling spices, or because of its medicinal properties, it can be used as an antiseptic, a tonic for nausea and indigestion, and even as a temporary tooth filling. While a visit to a spice plantation promises to be a real treat, visitors are also urged to enjoy an outing to a local fruit site.

Zanzibar boasts a wonderful assortment of produce with the most common including an intriguing combination known as yoghurt fruit, the unique tasting Jack Fruit that is a delightful taste-bud tickler, a whopping 25 varieties of banana, and star fruit, which is loaded with vitamin C and reputed to be good for the eyesight. Discovering the spice and fruit plantations of Zanzibar indeed promises to be one of the highlights of your holiday.