The Magnificence Of The Sultanate Of Zanzibar. A Vacation To An Archipelago That Defies Time. Encounter A Convergence Of Two Varied Civilizations.

Stepping out of the sedan, the fragrance of cloves fill the air as a farmer lays out carpets to dry the spice .

Tall plants donned with little pink-beige buds hold the coveted clove as it is the harvest season.

Stopping by the Persian baths, so called because Sultan Seyyid Said, the mercantile sultan who relocated his capital from Oman to Zanzibar, purposely designed the baths for his Persian wife on the ideal point on the island from where the Zanzibar beach view is superb.

Clear of the grandeur left behind, the beaten baths are resonant of the grand old days of the sultanate when it was utilized as a country retreat in 1850.

All that stands today is the five toilets with dome roofs showing the grace and the personal section of the Sheherzade, the princess from Persia had a deep bath and a sunken well where the heated water emerged as steam.

After bathing, the princes would lie on the terrace for a massage with the finest oils of the day. However, the Persian princess found country lifestyle rather too dull and left the Sultan to leave for home in Persia.

Enough with the baths, we take a footpath inside a spice farm, this is Stone Town.

Along with the town's most celebrated houses is the Beit al Ajaib or the House of Wonders designed by Sultan Barghash fronting the ocean and the Stone Town.

Here there is a display of his sister, Princess Salme or Frau Emily Reute in the prominent apartment house which had the finest etched wooden doors, first elevator, power supply and water running from taps in late 17th Century.

Princess Salme, was the earliest Arab woman who coached herself how to read and write and was excommunicated for eloping with a German trader.

Her chronicles are the first penned by a woman of Arab family lineage from a noble family.

We check into our room, known as Beyt al Chai, a three storey stone house in Stonetown where the rich of the sultanate once sipped a cup of tea in the middle of little talk.

It has been wonderfully remedied as a town house open to travelers with each room donned in fabulous silk and brocade with time old wooden furnishing of teak and other hardwoods.

The diner serves the best sea-food on the island with platters of seafood baked with skill and uniqueness.

At daybreak, we prowl into town. The small alleys are rush with Scooters, gigantic four-wheel drive vehicles all scrambling for space with pedestrians.

So many houses in this town still don the timber carved classical doors that have now been gazetted as historic.

At the Vintage Slave Market, we stop, where the Anglican church now stands with its inverted posts, statues of the slaves and the altar where the slaves were laced and beyond from the tree underneath where Dr Livingstone is interned - he waged an untiring fight against the merciless trafficking of slaves.

As the sunsets and dusk sets in, we wander out of the Ancient fort which was erected from the rubbles of what was the Portuguese church and into Forodhani Square.

The backyards were laid out early in the 20th century (1935) to remember the silver jubilee of King George V and the exquisite fountain and seats were built to celebrate the silver jubilee of Seyyid Khalifa bin Hamud in December 1936.

As the sun goes down in the horizon under the blues of the ocean guests take leisure in the spicy essence of the Zanzibar island feasting on delicacies and fresh juice.

The age of the sultans stopped with the revolution of 1964.

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