Day 34 – Nungwi to Stone Town

Got to sleep in nicely this morning. We dropped off bags at reception to go back to Stone Town early with C as he had to go back to Dar Es Salaam today in order to pick us all up at the ferry tomorrow morning.
We rode in the air conditioned bus back to Stone Town. A group of us went for lunch to a restaurant that makes excellent East African food. I had prawn fajitas with mango salsa and chapati. So so good. After lunch we got split up. Sabrina, Nic, Rianne and I searched for the site of the former slave market which took us way longer than it should have. Zanzibar used to be a huge hub for the slave trade before it was abolished. People all over Africa were taken from their homes, forced to walk across countries to the slave market where, if they had survived, they would be sold and sent out in ships to other countries. A Christian church (Zanzibar is primarily muslim) was built on the site where the slave market once was. The pulpit stands where the whipping post once did. The slave cells still exist underground. There is a room probably about 5 feet tall (I couldn’t stand up) by 7 feet wide by 10 feet long (these are VERY rough estimations) where 75 slaves at a time were held until being sold.
Since lunch was pretty late today and I was still full after going for a sundowner at the Africa House I went to bed early.