Spice of Life

Yesterday we took the morning for a "spice tour." Most hotels arrange them, a short trip to a demonstration farm where you can see spices growing, being harvested, and try tasting some of them. Ours was a low-key place...



...where we saw and tasted most of the following fresh off the tree, vine or root: ginger, pineapple, coconut (the water kind, not the milk kind), peppercorn, cinnamon, cardamom, turmeric, clove, allspice, jackfruit, picklefruit, starfruit, grapefruit, and lots more. Our guide was a whiz at weaving things out of palm fronds, witness the crown and the frog necklace.



We spent the afternoon back in Stone Town, getting lost again, visiting the market for spices, and then hiring a boat (the somewhat decrepit "Luvly Jubbly") to ferry us back to the hotel's beach.



Sunset last night was amazing. These three days have been terrific.



Today we fly to Dar es Salaam for a short overnight stay at one of the hotels (booked for us by a local contact, a friend of one of the KCMC doctors), and then we fly to London for an overnight stay, then home.