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Sleeping In Paradise: My Relaxing “Small World”🌎Time at Seasons Lodge🛖🏚️, Pongwe, Zanzibar🇹🇿

“Though the oceans are wide and the mountains are high, it’s a small world after all” – Sherman Brothers. Seasons Lodge! Well this is just a wild one. Seasons Lodge is the place to be. But perhaps this time, this story is more phenomenal than the destination, and a crazier one than many that have…

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How To Get Mandatory Travel Insurance For Zanzibar

Zanzibar is one of those countries that has introduced a mandatory travel insurance. This means to backpack it, you MUST have their travel insurance, not yours, not Jimmy’s and not Sally’s! As a backpacker who hates travel insurance and refuses to pay it, after companies stiched me up so many times two decades ago, it…

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Backpacking In Zanzibar: Staying At Bottoms Up Backpackers In Stone Town, Unguja Island

“I ain’t got no time for no monkey business” – Freddie Mercury. After a horrific time trying to get out of The Maldives through India and Ethiopia, I never thought I’d actually make it to Zanzibar, which was supposed to be new country two on the Rainy Summertime tour. In the end, I had 6…

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