Stone Town 2022 072
2022 Zanzibar, Tanzania
This alleyway winds through Stone Town, the old Swahili trading quarter of Zanzibar City. The old town grew as a major trading post on the Indian Ocean spice and ivory routes under the 19th-century Sultanate of Zanzibar, and many buildings here are built from coral stone, a construction method distinctive to the Swahili coast of East Africa.
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Streets of Stone Town through time — all 7 photos taken here (2017–2022) →
