Stay in Zanzibar
16 / 3 Air Italia flight airline flight really small.. very quiet at night, but you can not sleep. Darkness defends the view of the landscape until the early morning. A hot sun begins its climb and accompanies us to the discovery of unknown lands, a bed of rain, the start of Kenya, but emerges in the distance the majestic Kilimanjaro. Now the outward journey is almost concluded, we see
Zanzibar. 17 / 3 arrival in
Zanzibar. We get a little dizzy from the trip, and we invested dall'afa that affects the throat, but soon will be secondary. L 'airport suffered attention magnet, really dilapidated. Having rearranged the ideas, can the Customs (50dollari) and expect your bags in a warm soffoccante together with people of another flight .. we are lucky and get away, we wait for the right time and wander the fake customs trying to raccimolare few dollars. Outside the airport there is a sea of buses waiting for tourists with a concentration close to taxi drivers.
17 / 3 way to the hotel. Finally we are all on the bus direction
Kiwenga Beach Hotel Neptun. Leaving the airport, go through Stone Town of
Zanzibar town, the streets are orderly chaotic, there are signs intertwined with Western High poverty. Intercross curious stares of people who live in huts in ruins in the city and just outside, the road is acceptable and in less than an hour we arrived with a rich preamble of our tour leader Emmanuel.
17/3.....Soggiorno: Neptun beach resort looks nice and clean, the room comfortable and very spacious, lunches and dinners always associated with local traditions, but always with the possibility of Europe. The locals are always smiling, live with the motto Akuna Matata .. there is no probema ... The beach is long and white, better skip the first meter, a paradise with the sun brings the colors from emerald green to blue transparent. At about 500 meters you can see the reef, but in this area is not the best. The weather is always good for some luck with a little cloud that reduces the heat, characteristic of this beach is definitely the presence of inhabitants of the island or Masai ready to sell every type of souvenir or organize excursions, I must say quite insistent, but you can face everything with a smile. Strikes me the will to survive of these people, who speak in understandable terms from 3 to 5 languages.
Gita Blue Safari. Start with some trepidation, hoping to be the right choice, but accompanied by the right enthusiasm. We move from the ubiquitous with the sedans, the journey of about an hour passes quickly, we are distracted by people and those who accompany us. Arrive in a large bay on the low tide, the boats are waiting .... We climb on small boats or motor sailing. We leave the crystal sea takes us for a short stretch in the distance we see a dream beach that emerges only for a few hours each day. We're going to get off the boat when a dolphin show in the distance as if to give us a timid greeting. Bath reduces the heat on us, put on my mask and snorkel and follow one of our companions long barrier reef. A new world is around me, not having great experience is captured in breathtaking colors and fauna. After the splendid dip our escorts offer pineapple and coconut nougat
Zanzibar, now real life is just a memory ... After this relaxing boat ascend and descend on an island where he was prepared a banquet irresistible, fresh seafood and grilled specialties dell'isolane rice and polenta. After a short walk to visit the majestic Baobab now in decline fell by 70 years, but lived for almost half a millennium, our trip is almost over, but there is still time for a break in the mangrove lagoon, these few words I do not think unable to make the idea of the uniqueness of these places, but we are tremendously happy to have passed. The boat is a new office, opened his majestic sailing and guided by the wind we took her back to the mainland through the same landscape a few hours before but now swallowed up by this beautiful sea. 24 / 3 back home ... A sincere salute you our travel companions Alessandro and Silvia, unexpected and beautiful.