Zanibar & it's spices

It's so nice not to be on the road for a few days. The truck bounced all the way from Arusha to Dar es Salaam for 12 hours so it's been really good to kick back, relax & enjoy some warm water diving. The visability has been between 20 & 30 meteres with stacks of coral, sea life & things to ogle at.

here's Chris - my tent & rom mate for the trip. As an Ozzie we've been enjoying a few beers together & swapping mini Ashes victories over games of pool & darts in the evenings. As a big group we went out on a fasinating Spice tour that also included looking around slave chambers & sultans palace ruins too (as a general hisory lesson to the island's history). Our guide Ali G (Ali Guide!) as a crazy acented local who'd been watching far to much Ali G on the tele, as he sounded a like a biuzarre mixture of British-west-Staines & Jamaican all day.

The tour had use tasting ginger, vanilla & all sorts of flavoured teas. It's the rainy season here so it wasn't surprising when the hevens opened & down poured. We all sheltered from teh rain & drank teas until it passed.