7 days Zanzibar beach holiday tour package is a long holiday that will give you more time to enjoy most of the Zanzibar excursions including the visit to the old Zanzibar town and then take a boat to a prison Island, then the boat trip of Safari blue and then visiting the spice farms to enjoy the fresh fragrance and taste of the spices and fruits and visiting the Jozani forest for the red colobus forest walking and tour beach relaxations and playing with the dolphin during the Dolphin tour.
8 days Zanzibar beach holiday tour package overview
Itinerary for 8 days Zanzibar beach holiday tour package
Day 1: Arrival in Zanzibar
This will be your arrival day in Zanzibar whether via the Marine port or the Airport, you will be picked up by the driver and take a drive to your hotel for check-in stay and meals. The hotel will be either Stone Town Hotel or Village Beach Hotel your choice while booking.
Day 2: City Stone Town and Prison Island Tour
The day will begin with the Morning breakfast at your accommodation and then a driver together with your guide will pick you up from the lodging place and head to the Old historical stone town, at around 9:00 Am you will start the walk exploring the old stone town for 3 to 4hrs.
You will be walking around the historical, cultural, and architectural town of Zanzibar with a century of history. The tour will take you to different places like the former slave market, then stand at the Anglican church built in 1871, the town's old market, visit the Zanzibar Memorial Museum, the House of Wonder built-in 1883 (Beit-Al-Ajab), Old Arab Fort, Palace Museum, Old Indian dispensary (Cultural Center) to Maruhubi Palace Ruins through the Living Stone house.
This will then be the afternoon where you will find a restaurant for your lunch and rest for your next tour.
At around 2:30 pm you will board a boat for a trip to Prison Island home of Aldabra Giant Tortoises. The Island has amazing beaches of reef sanctuary for swimming, snorkeling, and beach relaxation.
After enjoying the clean and water sand beaches it will be evening and will take a boat back to Stone Town and because it is evening you might enjoy the sunset. Reaching the stone town you will head back to your lodging place for your dinner and overnight stay.
Day 3: Safari Blue Boat Trip
The day will be fully spent on the tour sailing in the boat and exploring the sea. The day will start with your morning breakfast at your lodging place and then you will leave for the Safari Blue boat trip.
Depending on your lodging place you might need a drive to the shore or not. For this full-day boating, you will enjoy several activities like sailing, snorkeling, and sunbathing at the Kwale Sandbank on a traditional dhow accompanied by a seafood barbecue for lunch.
You will be setting sail to explore Menai Bay from Fumba, Menai which is where the dolphins are sighted mostly. Up on reaching Kwale Island, you will be served a buffet of grilled fish, lobster, calamari, chickens, and coconut rice, and there will be the end of the Safari blue boat trip.
The tour can either be private or sharing depending on your number or choice. After the tour, you will head back to your accommodation for your evening and overnight stay with dinner.
Day 4: Spice Tour and Jozani Forest tour
The day will start with your morning breakfast at your lodging place and then at around 09:00, you will be picked driven to the spice farm for the fruits and spice tour. Here you will see, and taste the fresh fruits and spices from the farms where you will see the plantations and the spice products.
You will get a deep explanation of several spices with their uses as some are used as spices, cosmetics, medicines, fruits, and ornaments. Having several spices, Zanzibar is also known as the Spice Island.
After the spice farm tour with your lunch, you will then leave the spice farms taking a drive heading to the Jozani Forest this will be at around 2:30 pm. At Jozani forest, you will do a walking tour in the natural forest where you will see the famous red colobus Monkeys and then walk through the mangrove forest. After this walking tour, you will take a drive back to your Lodging place for dinner and overnight stays
Day 5: Full-day beach relaxation
This will be your lazy day and favorable for those who stay at beach hotels, where you will spend your time relaxing and the sand beaches, enjoying the scenery, sun, and sand of the beach, and some swimming and staying at the hotel.
However, when you are at the Stone Town Hotel you can enjoy some shopping and walking and then in the evening you can visit the Forozani area and enjoy the sunset and you can even opt for the sunset dhow excursion and enjoy the Forozani night market for seafood and other local foods.
Day 6: Dolphin tour
On this day you will play with your marine friend, the dolphins. The day will start with your breakfast at your accommodation then leaving for the dolphin site tour which is a boat tour. There are several dolphin spotting sites and the sites depend on your accommodation place.
This is a day trip to Kizimkazi or any other site that starts the sail at around 8:30 Am. The Dolphin tour excursion is an amazing Zanzibar excursion of viewing and swimming with hundreds of spinner and bottlenose dolphins and playing off the beach where you will experience a special natural message in the Indian Ocean.
Then this stunning tour You will then go back to your accommodation for your lunch, relaxation, dinner, and overnight stay.
Day 7: Nungwi Village Cultural tour
After your morning breakfast from your lodging place you will be picked up and driven to Nungwi village for the cultural tour. Nungwi is on the northern part of Zanzibar Island, this cultural tour will be of visiting the fish market and the Swahili culture exploration and having a fun time at the beach.
This tour is recommended to start early in the morning for the client to enjoy the business spot of the fish market where you can see several fish species including Tuna, King Fish, Dorado, and a variety of other large fish for sale.
Day 8: Departure
After enjoying your 8-day beach holiday in Zanzibar, this will be your departure day, following your departure time and departure point, whether at the airport or marine port you will be picked from your lodging place and drive to tour departure point for your return back home or your next journey.
Price inclusions and exclusions
Price inclusions for 8 days Zanzibar beach holiday tour package
- All tour excursions cost shown in the package
- Pick up and drop off from your Lodging place and tour arrival/departure point
- Services of experienced and professional tour guide
- All taxes and service fees included in the services
- Accommodations for your holiday stays on your choice
- Transfer & Transport waiting charge for the excursions
- Boat cost for the prison island excursio
Price exclusions for 8 days Zanzibar beach holiday tour package
- Medical insurance for the traveler
- Local and International flights cost
- Tanzania visa cost
- Expenses of a personal nature such as shopping in curio shops
- Airport Taxes
- Gratuities and tips for guide and driver