The price of African islands is affordable Lobster is 6 US dollars, and the people enjoy the luxury of the island
Do you believe there is another island that can surpass the Maldives? Do you believe it, although it is beautiful, it is much lower than in the Maldives?
Located in Tanzania in East Africa, Zanzibar was once a port for the slave trade in Africa, where nearly half of all black slaves were shipped around the world. Like other islands in the Indian Ocean, it has comfortable weather and an abundance of seafood, but it is slow to develop due to the lack of well-developed transportation.
Here, everything imported is expensive, and locally produced things are incredibly cheap. People who fish at the beach, wear slippers and catch fish for a day, may not be able to afford plastic slippers.
There are two ways to get to Zanzibar, one is a ferry, the other is a small passenger plane, the ticket price ranges from 35 to 50 US dollars, you can try a small passenger plane, if you are lucky, you can even take the passenger seat, this treatment is not available to everyone.
You can't go to Stone Town in Zanzibar, where the hotels are converted from old houses hundreds of years ago, but the price is cheap, and there are 50 dollars to live there for 3 days. Of course, if it is an ordinary breakfast, it is 20 to 50 dollars a day, regular restaurants and hotels can be swiped, and travel can also be used in dollars.
There are juices for the guests, as well as free fruits, and the waiters are not many, but they are all very friendly and patient in answering questions, which is very rare in Africa.
When night falls, the beach of Stone Town is full of stalls of all kinds of barbecue seafood, the price of local meat and vegetables is relatively high, the fish is quite ordinary, but lobster, crab and other things are unbelievably cheap. Because the locals don't like to remove the shell, it will have a pungent taste after eating, which is why a large fish costs five dollars while a lobster costs six dollars.
Because they don't like lobsters and crabs, the efficiency of fishing can't keep up with reproduction, and foreign boats are strictly prohibited from fishing, so there is a boom in lobsters and crabs, and in 2014, a large pot of lobster was only $30, and a lot of tips were brought with it. Later, with the increase in the number of tourists, people discovered the importance of lobsters, but because there is a large amount of fishing every year, **not**too much.
Stone Town is a city of Swahili, Persian and Arab, and if you have enough time, I recommend staying here for three days, where you can admire the ancient and striking buildings and hear them singing in the streets.
Another way is to book tickets on Prison Island, which used to be a prison and has now become a place to keep turtles, so this island is also called Turtle Island, and depending on the number of people, everyone can bargain, thirty dollars for each person, and fifty dollars for five people.
If you get into the Xi of getting up in the morning and waiting for the fishermen to return to the northern beaches, you can buy a batch of grouper, lobster and crab at the beach for $30, and the shore where large fishing boats dock is usually bought by local merchants, and the price will be much higher.
There's a lot to do, a driver's license can play here for three hours, the quality of the water here is not inferior to that of the Maldai, the beach to the south is full of tourists and there are a lot of plants, and the beach to the east is white sand and there are no people, so it's a great place to dive, swim and take pictures.
A thousand dollars here is definitely a rich man, in Maldives it may be three thousand dollars, but what would you choose?