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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 lanes like this were laid out centuries ago, long before motor vehicles, and much of their layout survives largely unchanged.
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Streets of Stone Town through time — all 7 photos taken here (2017–2022) →
