Turquoise water and a dhow off Nungwi, Zanzibar

Zanzibar · East Africa · Senegal

The good kind of high.

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House of Wonders on the Stone Town waterfront

The company

Two desks. The island first.

Founded by Ms. Kansiime Gloria Carol and Dr. Kwesiga George, we take travelers into East and West Africa — wildlife, cultures, landscapes, entertainment — while the parks and the people still stand. Sustainable, responsible, photographed first.

Kampala runs East Africa. Dakar runs the Atlantic. Zanzibar is the house we photograph: spice, dhow, reef. A sister company, Lake Kitandara Tour and Travel, has worked East Africa for thirty years. We use that network. We do not wholesale other people’s weeks.

The company

Stone Town alley, Zanzibar — Spice & Stone Town — alleys before the tenders, carved teak.

Spice farm, Zanzibar — Spice & Stone Town — a shamba that still harvests cloves and vanilla.

Old Fort, Stone Town — Spice & Stone Town — the Old Fort at late sun, then the waterfront.

Nungwi from above — A House in Nungwi — the pale north from above, eight slow days.

Mnemba coral garden — Mnemba After Light — coral garden, a small boat, not a queue.

Dhow bow in turquoise water — Mnemba After Light — a dhow that leaves when the water goes gold.

Sandbar off Zanzibar — Mnemba After Light — sandbar picnic when the tide allows.

Red colobus in Jozani Forest — Jozani & the Slow North — red colobus at a walker’s pace.

Jozani mangrove channel — Jozani & the Slow North — mangrove canoe, then pale water.

Giraffe at sunrise — Safari Then Salt — sunrise on the savanna, then the Indian Ocean.

Wildebeest on the plains — Safari Then Salt — the plains when the month is right.

Kilimanjaro camp at dawn — Kilimanjaro, Then the Tide — Machame camp at dawn, then Nungwi.

Gorée Island houses — Gorée & the Pink Lake — pastel lanes, a historian, Atlantic light.

Dakar Corniche at sunset — Dakar Atlantic — Corniche at gold, water that stands up.

Salt harvest, Lake Retba — Gorée & the Pink Lake — salt harvest when the lake is actually pink.

Stone Town at blue hour — Spice & Stone Town — blue hour on the House of Wonders.

Three maps. One desk.

All destinations

The island

Zanzibar

Stone Town doors, Nungwi light, Mnemba water, Jozani forest — the desk is here because the pictures start here.

From $2,840

The bush, then the tide

East Africa

Game drives timed to where the animals are, Kilimanjaro if you want the hard high, then Zanzibar so the legs remember water.

From $5,420

The other ocean

Senegal

Gorée, Lake Retba, Dakar at golden hour — West Africa when the week wants a different sea.

From $2,260

Small by design.
Groups stay small so the island still feels like an island. Private dhows, tables that are actually yours, safari vehicles that hold six.
Guides we know.
Dhow captains, spice farmers, crater rangers — people we work with year after year, not a rotating roster.
Pictures first.
We time arrivals for light, not for a checklist. If the channel is a lid, the dhow waits. If the lake is brown, we say so.