Itinerary
The journey begins with a pick-up from your hotel and transportation to Stone Town where you will take a tour there enjoying the beautiful sights of this city, then board a vessel bound for Prison Island. where you will stroll through its forests, unwind on its beach, spend time with its enormous turtles in the wood, take photographs with them, and visit the area that used to be a quarantine zone.
Next you proceed to the "Nakupenda," a short strip of beautiful white sand that is about 100 metres long and 30 metres broad. Here, you may relax or go swimming in the ocean's turquoise waters. You may unwind here on the lovely beach. while the lunch is getting prepared for you. Then have a delectable seafood meal with some fresh fruit and wine.
After resting and having lunch on the Island, you will go back to your hotel.
Stop At:
• Tanzania Centre for Cultural Heritage, Nyerere Road Quality Centre Mall, Dar es Salaam 235 Tanzania
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Traveler pickup is offered
We offer Pickup from All Zanzibar Hotels, Please send us your Hotel name, Room Number & Contact number in order to send you the accurate pickup time.
07:30 AM
10 hours(approx.)
Infant seats available
Service animals allowed
Not wheelchair accessible
Most travelers can participate
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 30 travelers
Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Posted By : Matthew_G
This was a great way to combine visits to Prison Island and the vanishing island. The meal of fruit and grilled seafood was delicious. Our guide and the boat crew were friendly and helpful throughout. Highly recommended.
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Posted On : 2024-02-12
Posted By : jairo2009
Great day trip from Zanzibar. We really enjoyed our time at all the places we visited. Our tour guide was very great and informative. The food that was prepped for us for lunch was delicious and very fresh. I recommend this excursion to anyone wanting to visit prison island and the sandbar.
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Posted On : 2023-12-12
Posted By : TiffanyA_B
I enjoyed this experience. I rated it 4 stars due to the Stonetown tour being rushed and limited info being shared compared to when I first did a similar tour last year. I feel that the vanishing island/sandbank stop took up too much time and exposed the tourists to too many vendors and there was no where to go on the sandbank to get away from them. Aside from spending too much time at the vanishing island sandbank, the food was grilled to perfection and made up for it.
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Posted On : 2023-12-11
Posted By : HAYA_S
Our guide Capaccino was amazing, very helpful, attentive and always smiling.
We started at the prison island, we took the full tour, then went to see the tortoises, then off to Nakupenda Island also known as the vanishing island. This is a MUST SEE if you are ever in Zanzibar. We had a great lunch and fruits. Then head back ro stone town for the tour. Excellent day with very good guides and we were lucky with the rest of the group, very nice people too.
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Posted On : 2023-07-24
Posted By : Shanice
This tour was unforgettable in every way. The history of each place we visited was so touching and powerful that my mother and I were impacted deeply.
Our guide Ibrahim (Ibracadaba) made sure that we felt welcome and that we had everything we needed, even allowing us to spend more time at places. Our seafood lunch on the beach was delicious too. This tour was definitely one of the highlights of our entire trip!
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Posted On : 2023-02-23
Posted By : 32aar_nh
Very nice experience. Native guide who knows many things that are not in the Internet. We went to places that are gorgeous but not as well-known as others. They are very worth it.
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Posted On : 2022-12-12
Posted By : Assiad_R
Professional, David the guide was very nice to us. The food at the nakupenda was the best sea food i ever had. Stone town just magical 🥰🥰🥰
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Posted On : 2022-11-09
Posted By : Janiche_P
The original guide David had to skip the trip after short time, by a time we already enjoyed his knowledge and conversation. The stand-in we are unsure is a guide usually, so the information from that point on was not that good.
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Posted On : 2022-11-08
Posted By : LaDreana_E
This was a great experience. Feeding the turtles was really fun. Lunch on the sandbox was delicious with a variety of seafood options. It’s cool that they cook it right there on the beach so you get to smell it while it’s being prepared. Our guide was the best. He carried out bags the entire time even when we walked through Stone Town. It was well worth the money spent. You will have a nice time.
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Posted On : 2022-10-17
Posted By : Graciela_H
Prison not really a prison but interesting
Island was a rush told to relax but after food only had 15 minutes to look around/photos etc
Stone town most things shut at time we went
Guide was rude and didn’t explain anything in the town should have more knowledge about the buildings
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Posted On : 2022-08-23
