Category: Zanzibar
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Zanzibar Dreams – Part 3 – Red Colobus Monkeys, Spice Farm Tour, and a Fish Taco… with a side of spider??
(August 2020, from my journals; Six weeks in Africa during a pandemic and divorce). Previous post: Zanzibar Dreams – Part 2 – Nakupenda Island and Cinnamon Spa(Opens in a new browser tab) https://www.expedia.com/shop/second-chapter-nomad/africa (small commission received) Day 27 RED COLOBUS MONKEYS AND A SPICE FARM TOUR Traveling alone has its challenges, but it also brings…
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Zanzibar Dreams – Part 5 – The Music Video and a Dhow to Nakupenda Island
(August 2020. From my journals; The Escape to Africa during a pandemic and divorce. Previous post: https://secondchapternomad.blog/2023/03/31/zanzibar-dreams-part-4-stone-town-nightclubs-prison-island-giant-tortoises-nakupenda-island/) https://www.expedia.com/shop/second-chapter-nomad/africa (small commission if booked through me) Day 40 – The Music Video This has become a personal challenge and mission to film something in Zanzibar. Making my visions and dreams a reality. I couldn’t be more pleased…
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Zanzibar Dreams – Part 4 – Stone Town Nightclubs, Prison Island, Giant Tortoises, Nakupenda Island
(September 2020, from my journals; Six Weeks in Africa during a pandemic and divorce). Previous post: https://secondchapternomad.blog/2023/06/24/zanzibar-dreams-part-3-red-colobus-monkeys-spice-farm-tour-and-a-fish-taco-with-a-side-of-spider-2/ (From the beginning of the Africa posts: Tanzania Tales – Part 1 – Take off! California to Zanzibar! (Later Dar es Salaam with stops in Nungwi and Mnemba Island)(Opens in a new browser tab) https://www.expedia.com/shop/second-chapter-nomad/africa (small commission if…
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Zanzibar Dreams – Part 2 – Nakupenda Island and Cinnamon Spa
(August 2020, from my journals). See previous post: https://secondchapternomad.blog/2023/03/22/zanzibar-dreams-part-1-meet-me-in-zanzibar/ Side note: I love this traveling lifestyle. I don’t feel as untethered and displaced as in my hometown. My old life in a house I no longer am allowed to enter, with mysterious inhabitants living in my belongings. A divorce that seemingly will never end. The…
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Zanzibar Dreams – Part 1 – Flight for One
(August 2020, from my journals. Tanzania Tales comes first. Nothing like six weeks in Africa to forget about a global pandemic and a glacially slow moving painful divorce.) This was my Eat, Pray, Love. The beginning of the Africa adventure: Tanzania Tales – Part 1 – Take off! California to Zanzibar! (Later Dar es Salaam…
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Zanzibar Dreams – Part 6 – A Local Wedding
(September 2020, from my journals. Last post of Africa, mid-Pandemic, mid-divorce.) See previous post: https://secondchapternomad.blog/2023/04/03/zanzibar-dreams-part-5-the-music-video-and-a-dhow-to-nakupenda-island/ https://www.expedia.com/shop/second-chapter-nomad/africa (small commission if booked through me) Dress Shopping for Wedding When your hotel housekeeper invites you to her sister’s Muslim Zanzibar wedding, you have one of your favorite waiters from your hotel (Is-Hak, same one who took me on…