Arriving in Zanzibar, December 22 at 6 am

I had a very fascinating and interesting observation during our wonderful holiday in Zanzibar.Considered the fact that the Zanzibaris are poor, we could leave our bath sandals on the beach close to the water and after a long stroll, we would still find our bath sandals on the same spot. Me and my daughter used to take a walk, when it was low tide to the beautiful and blue water sometimes 1-2 kilometres away from the beach.The cute and adorable village children made small boats of old bath sandals, but we could without problems leave our sandals on the beach:):):)

We ate here dinner on one of our trips to Stone Town. I ordered a very nice menu with fish/salat and my daughter had a pizza with octopus and a rich salat.As a matter of fact we, did not have a real good salat during our holiday, but in this café, they serve an excellent salat. They also have a very good Arabic coffee here and freshly baked cakes. The Café is air-conditioned which is a big plus:):) It is a typical Muslim eatery, so no enjoyment of alcohol!!!!!!

We had a quite interesting/funny experience with the cute children in Jambiani.We came back after our almost daily stroll to the the water at low tide followed by the children with whom we were singing the famous children's song "Head shoulders knees and toes.....". By the way it was a good way to teach each other the languages Swahili/English):)

One of the boys asked me:" Do you have penschool?" I went to fetch one pen and in the course of no time they started to fight about this pen.I immediately stopped the fight and took back the pen explaining them that they won't get it when fighting:):)

If I just knew this before leaving Denmark, I would have bought 100 pens in all colours as presents for the children:):)SO EVERYONE GOING TO JAMBIANI PLS BRING A LOT OF PENCILS AND SCHOOL-BALL PENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When we left the Red Monkey Beach Lodge, I wanted to show the appreciation for the good service/friendliness of our lovely staff Abdul, Alex, Halima, Solomon, Mourine etc.etc and asked of pure curiousity the German owner of the lodge, what the procedure concerning tip was.He told me, that I should put the tip in a box in the office.

Hmm, I thought to myself and told him, that I want to do it in another way which he for one reason or the other was not happy about:):) I called each staff on the day of our departure and gave them their very well deserved tip:):):)

I booked this lodge over the internet for me and my daughter for a period of 13 days, firstly because it was situated right on the Jambiani beach, on the East Coast of the Indian Ocean and secondly because it is famous of the Red Colobus Monkey. We heard them jump from roof to roof early in the mornings.We got a bungalow with a beautiful view to the Indian Ocean and very close to the local Zanzibaris, which made our holiday very special, charming and exotic:):):):) There are only 9 bungalows and a restaurant, which make the lodge cosy and familiar.There is another restaurant Coral Rock a few hundreds meter along the beach. The staff in Red Monkey Beach was very nice and friendly, and we got a good contact with all of them.

Breakfast was included in our accommodation. You could order zipati ( a kind of corn pancake)and eggs, omelettes. There was not a huge selection of bread, but the bread was homemade. We had a very tasty juice (avocado/pineapple)

For dinner they had barbecue/ a la carte, depending of how many guests were eating. The food was very tasty and consisted mainly of fish/goat/chicken meat, potatoes, rice etc.

The power supply was not so good, so we found ourselves in lack of power a few times, which I could not care less about. We were in Africa and not Europe. I guess that my trip in the Amazonas a few times made me enough tolerant:):):) I can highly recommend the Red Monkey. Of course it depends of what standard you want, and if you can tolerate that the power is off for short periods.