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 Zanzibar
 Unguja Island
The best known of the islands, Unguja has been at the prow of Indian Ocean history for over a millennium. Explorer, sultans, slave traders and merchants all chose Zanzibar as their strategic base, spurred by monsoon winds along trade routes, driven by imagined wealth and riches or led by starry maps and religious conquest towards escape and discovery.
These adventurers' tales were interwoven by Sheherezade into 1001 nights, compelling other dreamy romantics to follow their luck and the breeze to Zenj in the south.
The historic charms of Stone Town, the picture-book, palm-fringed beaches, colourful reefs and the cultural pride that exudes from every beach hut, every temple and every courtyard continues to lure visitors from around the world.
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