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Do you need a visa to travel to Zanzibar? Yes — but not a separate one. Your Tanzania visa covers both the mainland and Zanzibar. The real catch is a mandatory Zanzibar travel insurance policy from the Zanzibar Insurance Corporation (ZIC), required since October 2024 and not mentioned in many...

The first thing that hits you in Zanzibar isn't the beaches; it's the smell. Cloves drying on tarpaulins outside Stone Town, salt air off the harbour, grilled corn smoke from Forodhani Gardens at dusk. Pictures of the sand and the turquoise water are what get you to book the flight....

Every photo of Zanzibar looks the same: impossibly blue water, powder-white sand, someone's silhouette walking toward the horizon at golden hour. It looks easy. It's not always cheap, and it's not always dry season—and the gap between what you expect and what you get often comes down to timing.