Street food… Zanzibari taste!

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Dedicated to foodies and adventurers… to the ones who are curious to try street food, during a walk around Stone Town’s colorful local restaurants and stalls.

If the question is “How does it taste?”, we have good news for you. Some of the bites and snacks that you can find along your way are very nice and tasty. We advise to avoid raw food and fish that doesn’t look fresh... but you can dare everything is well cooked!

Urojo Soup
This soup is made with tasty local spices, enriched with potatoes, kachori (spicy mashed potato balls), cassava, eggs, meat or even fresh salad. Big feed and a lot of fun!

Chipsi Mayai
A simple and popular street-food in Tanzania: fried chips in an omelette. One portion is a full meal.

Mishkaki
Grilled meat on a skewer, most favourite by local people. You can add chips, rice or ugali (cornmeal mush) and a bottle of fresh local beer.

Chapati
Traditionally Indian, chapati is a thin and round tortilla that is a replacement of bread. A take-away or a snack, to fill with your favourite ingredients.

Coconut to Drink
You can buy young coconuts, still containing fresh and sweet water, from sellers on the beach; they’ll cut off the top on the moment. What a refreshing drink!

Sugar Cane Juice
Plain or with some extra ginger, here you are another amazing exotic drink. Sellers extract the juice from the cane at the moment… so sweet!

Finger Seafood
You can find it at Forodhani, in Stone Town, and pick-up among a wide choice of fresh fish just roasted on fire. For a different dinner.

Vitumbua
Small fried cakes, made of coconut and rice, that are crunchy outside but soft inside. Great with a cup of Tanzanian black tea.

Chai
Chai is the Swahili word meaning “tea”, one of the most common drinks in Tanzania. You can have it with or without milk, plain or spicy. Either ways, will be good.

Mandazi
Typical Tanzanian doughnuts, sweet and soft… and of course, caloric. Just an indulgence, for few coins.

Mtori
The breakfast for very hungry people: mtori is a soup made with bananas and meat. Tanzanian people love to eat this early morning, and if you dare to do the same you’ll be the most welcome!

Evaluating new hotels and lodges...

As to be sure we at all time can offer our esteemed guests the best accommodations while having your adventure in Tanzania with us - we check and test out our partners.

We are now launching our new campaign - Manager's Choice - where our personal favorites will be awarded and promoted. Our other partners are still good choices, but haven't been tested the same way, or are a style which we personally don't chose.

Our testing this times will be in Zanzibar - our program will be posted later.

We will also to our ability keep our readers here on the blog and on our Facebook site updated as we proceed with our 10 day testing tour!

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Paradises off the beaten tracks: Rubondo Island

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Some people love hidden treasures and almost unknown paradises more than mainstream destinations. They go for them, they want to arrive to places that most of tourists will never reach.

If you are waiting to be in Kidagaa Beach where our lodge is located or if you have already been here and you enjoyed the quiet, the crowdless atmosphere and the nature all around, probably you are one of those “explorers of lost paradises”.

We are as well, and we want to show you something amazing that you can find here in Tanzania: Rubondo Island National Park, the largest island park of the Country.

Let’s fly far away, to the city of Mwanza, along the shores of the Lake Victoria. From here, let’s continue by boat up to a remote side, closed to the border of Rwanda and Uganda.

An endless green forest will amaze you sight. But even more surprising will be the exploration.

This peaceful and lonely corner of the World is home for many animal species, that here is possible to see on a very short distance: elephant and giraffe, antelope, crocodile and hippo… but most of all, wild chimpanzees which were introduced in the 60s.

Air and water around Rubondo are populated as well by over 200 bird species and fishes such as tilapia and the rapacious Nile perch. Aside, funny yellow-spotted otters hunting nearby the water.

An overnight at the Rubondo Island Camp will be the cherry on top. Have a look at the video!

Rubondo Island can be visited after the northern circuit parks, and you should also think of visiting the Chimpanzee havens of Gombe Streams or Mahale Mountains National Parks. Contact our partner safari company Paka Adventures for more info.