Chumbe Island is amazing. It is an island previously used as a military post and later bought by a German environmental NGO. It is now an eco-resort and official environmentally protected area. The result is a group of self-sustaining solar-powered and rain-water huts, an ecology teaching center, and the best diversity of coral reef in …
This was my second trip to Unguja Island, Zanzibar. Stone Town was as beautiful and captivating and haunting as usual. You may recall my stories from March 08 about the East African slave trade as it relates to the rise and fall of Zanzibar. This time Young Whan and I visited the old slave market …
above: kid next to the “door of no return” (which slaves passed through to leave their home forever) at Changuu Island, Zanzibar dhows anchored at Stone Town, Zanzibar twilight over Stone Town aerial of the reef around Unguja island, Zanzibar hallway at Beit-Al-Amaan (“house of peace”) chillin at Beit-al-Amaan’s lush living room Zanzibar. Ahh… hearing …
