An activity that was included in my 35 day G Adventures Overland Truck adventure was a two hour Spice Plantation Tour on the island of Zanzibar—off the coast of Tanzania. Spices are one of the top forms of revenue for Tanzania; although they’ve been surpassed years ago by Indonesia. We got to try different types of fruit, like Mango, Oranges, Grapefruit, Pomegranate, Papaya, Passion Fruit, Banana, Soursop, Pineapple and Coconut! They made hats for us and we drank coconut juice!
The chickens were fighting over the coconut droppings. This chicken was strange looking!
These little girls were off in the woods….so I zoomed in to get their photo…
This guy wrapped some type of strong leaf in a figure 8 around his feet, jumped up on the tree and began leaping like a frog up the tree! He was singing the entire time and made it to the top!
Another guy in our group wanted to try it…he got up about 8 feet and stopped. It’s harder than it looks!!
During the tour we stopped at all types of spice plants/trees. This is nutmeg. The guide would give all of us some of the plant, have us smell it and see if we could guess what it was.
I don’t remember what this red one is…
This is vanilla!
The Spice Plantation tour was quite educational!
That (rambutan looking) spice is called ‘Achuete.’ I remember when I was young we had this plant in our backyard and my girlfriends and I would use them to colour our nails and lips!!!
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Thanks so much! One of the workers did that with it while we watched!
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People, vegetation, animals, food, clothing, and so much more in a matter of weeks. 🙂
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I know…it was all encompassing!
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Hi,
That is a bit of a different type of tour, it would of been fun checking out all the different fruit, great photos. 🙂
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Thank you!
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Tender Coconuts 🙂 In South India, you can drive for a few kms without seeing a man on cycle selling tender coconuts
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I LOVE coconut!
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I meant * you cant”… 🙂
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Coconut of the tree is the best thing you can drink when thirsty – and loads of nutritions. Make you strong and health. Love the photo with girls with their orange head scarfs – so beautiful and the guy up in the tree is great too. Plus madame … she looks like she are enjoying it. Needed know that vanilla looked like that … amazing color *smile. Once again thanks for sharing.
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Madame did enjoy and I also loved the little girls and the coconut guy!
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I would be all over that tour. Great shots! It looks like a good time was had by all.
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Thanks Michelle!!
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I’ve never seen how nutmeg grows or what it looks like. Spice Islands, right? I think that’s a former name of the Zanzibar Archipelago. Now I see why.
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I know…I didn’t know what vanilla or most of the plants that he showed us looked like.
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You certainly are having a tour of a life time, must be extremely interesting…would love to know what the red one is looks so interesting…
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It was an amazing adventure!!
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Amazing images—really beautiful!
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Thanks very much!
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Beautiful photos .. and one of my favorite posts of yours from Africa. Zanzibar is everybody’s favorite!!
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Thanks Betty!
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So, it was adventurous and educational! 🙂
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Yes! I love to learn!
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