Spice Plantation Tour: Explore Zanzibar's Rich Flora
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6 Ratings
Zanzibar Spices and Heritage Centre

Discover Zanzibar’s spice plantations and tropical fruits on a half-day tour. Explore cloves, vanilla, and more while enjoying exotic fruits like jackfruit and starfruit.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Zanzibar Spices and Heritage Centre - This engaging half-day tour begins with a scenic drive through lush countryside, leading to a variety of spice plantations including cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper, turmeric, vanilla, and nutmeg. The experience extends beyond spices, offering a glimpse of the iodine plant, henna bush, ylang-ylang,…
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What's Included
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Parking fees
What's Not Included
  • Airport and departure taxes
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

This half-day tour begins with a scenic drive through lush countryside, where participants will explore various spice plantations, including cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper, turmeric, vanilla, and nutmeg. The tour offers more than just spices; it also includes visits to iodine plants, henna bushes, ylang-ylang, the lipstick tree, cocoa,…

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Location
Zanzibar Spices and Heritage Centre
Kidichi, West district
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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(6 Ratings)
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Wendy_timm_marais
Nov 28, 2022
Well worth it - Get to smell taste and see all the spice trees and plants. With great stories told by the guides. Nice walk that's just off the hustle and bustle but feels like you in the middle of the forest with a canopy covering you in silence with just nature and paths swept clean with chickens rustling about and a pig or goat to entertain you every now and again. We had a great guide who climbed up the trees to pick coconuts and other fruits and made beautiful Natural Jewellery out of the leaves and flowers. Do support and buy as most locals depend solely on the tips etc. Loved this experience alot.
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Alzimk
Aug 6, 2022
Great Afternoon - Mohamed was a very knowledgeable guide and knew a lot about the uses of the herbs in medicine. We were shown many rare spices and it was very interesting to see how and where these spices grew. A very hospitable team who gave us coconuts and an assortment of fruit, with an opportunity to buy some spices. Would highly recommend this tour.
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L302ncvalentinag
Oct 8, 2021
Good and responsible guides - Very nice trip. Recommend. Guides are friendly, punctual, ready to answer our questions. We saw many interesting plants trees. They explained about all the plants. Gave us enough time for photos and videos. Special thank to the guys who made crowns and bracelets out of plants.
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Umfazi254
Mar 1, 2020
Exciting and informative but room for improvement - I enjoyed being a client of Suncoast for sure. I did two tours but started with the Spice Tour. My guide picked me up on time and drive me to one of the farms as he explained local history and how the spice farms came to be. We walked through the farm and he,for the most part explained every spice we came through and had a local get them for me for tasting and touching. The same local makes a crown of leaves for female clients, very touristy but I didn't mind. Part of the tour involves tasting fruits and this was the best part for me for sure. Some of the best tasting fruits of my life and yet I am African (Kenyan) My two points of critique are this, I understand Swahili and at some point my guide negotiated with the local, skipping some parts because he was tired, he didn't raise this point with me though. I paid for a full tour and that is what I expected. Second, at the fruit tasting and the palm tree climbing you are nudged to give a tip, I am not against this but I was surprised since I had almost zero cash on me (all on my card) please do something about this. All in all I enjoyed the experience and please note there is a chance to buy local soaps, perfumes and the spices themselves at the end of the tour. My guide was good and he made sure I was constantly hydrated. Very thoughtful. Tour price can be negotiated as well. Suncoast comes highly recommended.
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799juliusk
Feb 5, 2020
HONEY MOON - Honesty these guys booked us an ocean coast beach resort-Coconut Tree Village in the village which was ideal for our honeymoon...the sun was scotching high in Zanzibar. We really enjoyed the the time we spent on this highland. Thanks to Suncoast Zanzibar tours.
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Vickiwj861iy
Jul 9, 2024
Tour company cancelled at very short notice without explanation - Tour company cancelled the tour lunch time on the day of my afternoon half day tour without explanation. I had a bad feeling when i booked it although they accepted the booking then immediately afterwards asked me to change the booking to the morning as they had other commitments but if i had wanted a morning tour I would have booked the morning option. If they couldn’t do the tour then they should not have accepted my booking in the first place. Luckily i was able to book with an alternate company.
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