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15 Farm Visits in Tanzania to Build a Day Around

51 tours  ·  from $32

This is the shortlist you would text a friend: 15 farm visits worth the money, each with its price, its traveller verdict and the thing to know before you commit.

Zanzibar: Prison Island, Stone Town, & Spice Farm Tour - Reaching Prison Island by boat
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Zanzibar: Prison Island, Stone Town, & Spice Farm Tour

1.Prison Island, Stone Town, & Spice Farm Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 579 reviews · 8 hours · from $70Our pick

Visit Prison Island and its giant Seychelles tortoises, walk Stone Town with guides such as Abdul, Isaac, or Feisal, then taste and smell Zanzibar’s spices at a working farm. Hotel transfers, boat transport, entry fees where selected, and a local lunch are included.

“Very pleasant day full of exciting activities. Our guide had extraordinary knowledge of many landmarks and taught us a lot about Zanzibar's history. We saw many interesting places, giant tortoises, spice farm (really funny and interesting experience) and we bought souvenirs and spices in Stone Town at Darajani bazaar.”

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Full-Day Private Stone Town Spice Farm and Prison Island Tour - St. Joseph’s Cathedral and the Old Dispensary
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Full-Day Private Stone Town +Spice Farm and Prison Island Tour

2.Full-Day Private Stone Town +Spice Farm and Prison Island Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 216 reviews · from $100

Spend about eight hours with a private guide and driver exploring Stone Town, Changuu, and Jambo Spice Farm. Expect historic buildings, giant tortoises, a boat ride with loaner snorkeling gear, tropical fruit tasting, and spice demonstrations. Guides may include Amina, Ibrahim, Ali, or Amira.

“Great tour! Had a great time learning about the history of Zanzibar. Take extra cash to tip your local guides and driver”

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Zanzibar: Stone Town & Spice Farm Tour with Lunch - Starting at the Old Fort and meeting your guide
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Zanzibar: Stone Town & Spice Farm Tour with Lunch

3.Stone Town & Spice Farm Tour with Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 97 reviews · 5 hours · from $73

Spend five hours with a private English-speaking guide in Stone Town and at a real organic spice farm. Meet guides such as Juma, Ahmed, or Beka, taste fresh fruit and spices, watch coconut picking, help with local cooking, and finish with a farm lunch.

“We had an excellent spice farm and stone town tour. Especially spice farm tour was much better than we expected thanks to our guide. He let us smell different seeds and explained how different spices are grown. Food was also surprisingly good. During Stone town tour we learned a lot of Zanzibar history and saw most important parts of town.”

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Zanzibar:Stone Town & Spice Farm Private Tour Lunch Included - From tropical plants to Zanzibar’s spice trade
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Zanzibar:Stone Town & Spice Farm Private Tour Lunch Included

4.Stone Town & Spice Farm Private Tour Lunch Included

★★★★★★★★★★4.2 · 94 reviews · 3 - 6 hours · from $46

Visit a Zanzibar spice farm with a private guide, taste fresh fruit and spices, and enjoy a Swahili lunch before exploring Stone Town. Guides such as Abdul, Kassim, and Omar offer tailored explanations in several languages, with stops at the Old Fort, Forodhani Gardens, City Market, and Old Slave Market.

“Un grand merci à Kassim pour Stone Town, sa patience, son érudition et son très bon français !”

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Zanzibar full day Jozani forest + Spice farm and stone town - The mangrove bridge keeps your feet off fragile ground
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Zanzibar full day Jozani forest + Spice farm and stone town

5.Zanzibar full day Jozani forest + Spice farm and stone town

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 90 reviews · 1 day · from $90

Spend a full day with a private guide visiting Jozani Forest, an organic spice farm, and Stone Town. Look for Zanzibar’s red colobus monkeys, walk over a mangrove bridge, taste fresh spices and fruit, and see landmarks such as Freddie Mercury’s former home. Amina is one guide named in recent feedback.

“jozani bos is echt geweldig maar ga zo vroeg mogelijk dab zie je de aapjes bij tientallen. kruidenboerderij is interessant stone town vinden wij niet zo”

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Arusha or Moshi : Hot Spring, Waterfall & Coffee Farm Tour - Setting out from Arusha or Moshi
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Arusha or Moshi : Hot Spring, Waterfall & Coffee Farm Tour

6.Arusha or Moshi : Hot Spring, Waterfall & Coffee Farm Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 80 reviews · 8 - 13 hours · from $53

Spend 8 to 13 hours visiting Materuni Village and its 80-meter waterfall, swimming in clear Chemka Hot Springs, and learning traditional coffee making. An English-speaking guide, lunch, hotel pickup, and selected entry fees are included, with options from Arusha or Moshi.

“It was great to go to the Chemka Hotsprings!! The local food was very delicious l!! The guide was very polite and knowledgeable!!”

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Zanzibar: Spice Farm & Stone Town Tour with Lunch - The spice farm: Zanzibar beyond the spice rack
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Zanzibar: Spice Farm & Stone Town Tour with Lunch

7.Spice Farm & Stone Town Tour with Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 80 reviews · 7 hours · from $50

Spend seven hours exploring Zanzibar’s spice farms and Stone Town. Taste turmeric, cloves, cinnamon, and tropical fruit, eat lunch at the farm, then walk through Darajani Market, the Old Fort, former slave market, and Freddie Mercury’s neighborhood with an English-speaking guide such as Samir, Salum, or Izaac.

“Les deux activités sont géniales. Juste faire attention au moment d’acheter les souvenirs, ils gonflent les prix”

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Zanzibar: Spice Farm Tour with Traditional Cooking Lesson - Smelling cinnamon, vanilla, cloves, and pepper
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Zanzibar: Spice Farm Tour with Traditional Cooking Lesson

8.Spice Farm Tour with Traditional Cooking Lesson

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 77 reviews · 3 hours · from $65

Meet your English or Swahili-speaking guide at Stone Town’s Old Fort or arrange hotel pickup. Walk among cloves, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and pepper, taste tropical fruit, help make coconut milk and cassava dishes, then eat a farm lunch.

“The spice tour was so fun! It was very informative. I loved learning about all of the plants and their uses. Everyone was very kind, and our guide and driver were especially great.”

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STONE TOWN, PRISON ISLAND AND SPICE FARM ( Lunch included ) - Stone Town through forts, markets, and music history
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STONE TOWN, PRISON ISLAND AND SPICE FARM ( Lunch included )

9.STONE TOWN, PRISON ISLAND AND SPICE FARM ( Lunch included )

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 53 reviews · from $165Top rated

Spend about 3 hours 50 minutes visiting Prison Island, Stone Town, and Jambo Spice Farm with pickup, transport, and lunch included. Guide Abu is often assigned to this private tour, which can be adjusted for ferry schedules, airport drop-offs, shopping, and your preferred pace.

“This was a fabulous tour but what made it so special was our tour guide Abu. His chasima and knowledge was excellent and he made the tour so enjoyable. I would highly recommend it and ask for Abu. He made all the difference.”

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Zanzibar Private Spice Farm and Stonetown Tour(Include Lunch) - A Zanzibari lunch with pilau and cooked banana
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Zanzibar Private Spice Farm and Stonetown Tour(Include Lunch)

10.Zanzibar Private Spice Farm and Stonetown Tour(Include Lunch)

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 53 reviews · from $76

Spend about seven hours with a private guide from Yazan Tours And Travel, combining a spice farm visit, coconut tasting, local lunch, and Stone Town landmarks including the Old Slave Market, Freddie Mercury House, Old Fort, and Forodhani Gardens.

“This was a wonderful experience. Walking through Stone Town and listening to the history as well as testing our knowledge of the spices on the spice farm was amazing. Yasser was an excellent tour guide, frequently checking to see if we had any questions and making sure Read more”

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A Private Full Day Tour To Stone Town & Spice Farm - Walking through Stone Town’s layered past
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A Private Full Day Tour To Stone Town & Spice Farm

11.A Private Full Day Tour To Stone Town & Spice Farm

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 53 reviews · from $90

Spend about five to six hours with a private guide exploring Stone Town’s slave-market site, Sultan’s Palace, Old Arab Fort, markets, and carved doors, then walk through Tangawizi Spice Farm to taste fruit, learn about medicinal plants, and see Zanzibar’s famous spices.

“Machano was good guide very knowledgeable and friendly and we had amazing time with him at Zanzibar he took us to the market and buy some staff actually he is top tour guide”

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From Arusha: Coffee Farm and Mangalia Waterfalls Tour - From Arusha to a working coffee farm
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From Arusha: Coffee Farm and Mangalia Waterfalls Tour

12.Coffee Farm and Mangalia Waterfalls Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 48 reviews · 4 hours · from $55

Join a small group of up to four with guides such as Frank or Hosea for a four-hour outing from Arusha. Visit a coffee farm, make fresh coffee, sample local snacks and banana wine, then walk to Mangalia Waterfalls for photos or a swim.

“My guide Frank went above & beyond to give me an extremely thorough tour of the coffee plantation & Mangalia waterfall. He was also very knowledgeable, enthusiastic, attentive & personable. It was a wonderful & memorable experience.”

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Zanzibar: Spice Farm Tour & Stone Town Adventure - The coconut climber and fresh Zanzibar coconut
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Zanzibar: Spice Farm Tour & Stone Town Adventure

13.Spice Farm Tour & Stone Town Adventure

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 48 reviews · 4 hours · from $95

See, touch, smell, and taste Zanzibar’s famous spices, watch a coconut climber, sample fresh coconut and tropical fruit, then explore Stone Town with a guide such as Abdul, Stiero, or Josephat. Hotel transfers, entrance fees, water, and fruit tasting are included.

“We had a great tour at both the spice market and Stone Town. Our driver picked us up promptly from the hotel and dropped us back and also used this opportunity to tell us a lot more about things we drove past or little stories about life in Zanzibar! Both the driver and guide were able to answer all the questions we had and while we wandered around Stone Town we were able to request visits to certain spots and stopped for a drink at one of the hotels as well. We would definitely recommend this tour, it was great!”

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Private Tour Zanzibar Unique Stone Town with spice Farm Plantations - From Portuguese Fort to House of Wonder
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Private Tour Zanzibar Unique Stone Town with spice Farm Plantations

14.Private Tour Zanzibar Unique Stone Town with spice Farm Plantations

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 44 reviews · from $61

Walk Stone Town with a private guide such as Masoud, then visit a local spice farm to smell and taste cloves, cinnamon, vanilla, ginger, and more. The five-hour tour includes entry fees, water, tea, and a coconut climber show, but hotel transport is not included.

“Masoud has a very friendly manner, speaks very well with a great deal of knowledge.”

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Full Day Holiday Package (Prison Island-Stone Town-Spice farm) - Changuu Island and the old prison
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Full Day Holiday Package (Prison Island-Stone Town-Spice farm)

15.Full Day Holiday Package (Prison Island-Stone Town-Spice farm)

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 33 reviews · from $140

Spend about nine hours with a private guide exploring Stone Town, Changuu’s giant tortoises, and a working spice farm. Hotel transfers, boat travel, entrance fees, and a Swahili lunch are included. Comfortable shoes, modest clothing, and insect repellent will make the day easier.

“The spice farm experience and Prison Island were unique. There wasn't much that stood out in Stone City and our tour guide was more interested in Stone City than the other two places that we visited, I would say that he was more interesteRead more”

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