Zanzibar Spice Tour: A Local Farming Village Experience Focused on Food and Spices

Participate in a three-hour tour revolving around food and spices in a nearby agricultural community. Pay a visit to a native spice farm while delving into the historical connection between Zanzibar and spices. Get acquainted with a countryside farmer and grasp African agricultural methods, even applying some of these techniques on your own.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Jambo Spice Farm - spice farm with local farmer
What's Included
  • Private transportation
  • All Entrance fees
  • Experience professional tour guide
  • All Taxes
  • Mineral Water
What's Not Included
  • Visa
Location
Forodhani
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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(47 Ratings)
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Gary_v
Jun 30, 2025
Spice farm tour - This was a great tour with a great guide (“Ali”) who I would highly recommend. The tour was very informative and enjoyable.
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Y4366qudavidv
Jun 4, 2025
Spice tour! - The tour was lovely and well done! I learned a lot! I was picked up at my hotel and transported safely to the spice farm and safely back!
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Flyer231314
Mar 20, 2025
Superb & exotic experience! - Joined the tour with my wife and two boys, and enjoyed a lot! Tour guide tools us thru 10+ different spices and fruits with a lot of interesting explanations. Many of them are not from my culture, and was interesting to learn! Last but not least, hospitality of the staffs are very good.
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Y946medouglasj
Mar 12, 2025
Pemba native scores big tour success - Seif Rashid Ali was our guide on the Zanzibar Spice tour. A native of Pemba island, he has rural roots and a deep knowledge of spice plants and traditional cures. It was fun to follow him scurrying through the gardens unearthing all manner of homeopathic treatments. He has preternatural energy and kept us on the go. If you listen carefully you can not help but learn a great deal.
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Athanas
Mar 6, 2025
Informative and fun spice tour - This is a great tour. Seif was a great guide who was super informative and had a great sense of humor. I had fun and learned a lot about the local horticulture as well. I highly recommend this tour!
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Tnvitaljic13
Feb 27, 2025
Jambo mambo - We took a nice walk around the spice farm with our guide and one younger guy who helped a lot and made us some hats and necklaces. Everything was good.
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Annarq3691hw
Jan 3, 2025
Spice Tour Review - I highly recommend this tour to anyone who’s enthusiastic about learning about the huge variety of spices in Zanzibar, combined with the humour and passion of our wonderful guide. We also opted for lunch at the spice farm, which was an authentic and delicious experience of local flavours (vegetarian).
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Nicola_l
Jul 11, 2025
Enjoyable tour - Thanks for a great tour learning about all of the spices and where they come from originally definitely worth the visit
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Stigitha
Dec 14, 2024
Fun and insightful tour - The tour was great! Our guide Sylvia (Sauda) was knowledgeable and made the tour fun by including an element of competition - who could name some of the many plants we checked out. There was an opportunity to purchase some spices and coffee, but no pressure to do so and the ride to the spice farm and back was smooth, clean and comfortable with AC.
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S9707qvheleno
Mar 13, 2025
Don’t waste your money - This tour was a waste of time and money. The tour guide had a number of challenges- a hacking cough, a brain problem (?). But even without these, he made no relationship with us like Hi my name is ___, what are your names? His tour started when we got to the spice farm after a 30 minute drive and ended when we got back into the vehicle at the end. He didn’t give us much information and just kept asking us what we used each spice for and then invited us to ask questions. Didn’t feel like we learned anything. He apologized many times for his brain problem today.
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From $35
up to 10 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).