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Top 15 Zanzibar Spice Farm Tours in Zanzibar

37 tours  ·  from $30

The good zanzibar spice farm tours in Zanzibar fill up weeks out and the best go first. Below: the 15 to book early, what each includes and where they differ.

Spice Tour + Stone Town Tour + Prison Island - Starting around Forodhani Park
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Spice Tour + Stone Town Tour + Prison Island

1.Spice Tour + Stone Town Tour + Prison Island

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 130 reviews · from $140Our pick

Spend 7 to 8 hours with a private guide exploring Stone Town, Jambo Spice Farm, and Prison Island. Guides such as Mady, Ismael, and Abkar are praised for clear storytelling. Lunch, drinks, entrance fees, and Stone Town hotel transfers are included.

“I had such a wonderful day with Ismael on this tour. We started with the spice farm where I learned so much about Zanzibar’s spices and got to eat delicious pilau rice. Ismael was very knowledgeable and explained things very well. We thRead more”

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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

2.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

3.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: 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

4.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 Cooking Class & Spice Tour - Cooking several local dishes with a host
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Zanzibar Cooking Class & Spice Tour

5.Zanzibar Cooking Class & Spice Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 77 reviews · from $40

Meet a local host such as Lutfia or Rashid for a five-hour Zanzibar food experience. Shop for ingredients at Darajani Market, taste unusual fruits and spices at a community farm, then cook and eat several local dishes, including pilau and banana recipes.

“After buying goods at the market, visit of a spice farm. Azusa Spice Farm. Then cooking a 4 plates meal. Marvelous with a lot of tips to prepare rice pilau for exemple ou banana. The lady who gave the cours was exceptional. Warmly recommended.”

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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

6.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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From Stone Town: Spice Tour of Zanzibar - Neem, iodine tree, and the uses behind the names
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From Stone Town: Spice Tour of Zanzibar

7.Spice Tour of Zanzibar

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 71 reviews · 2.5 hours · from $30Best value

From Stone Town, a local guide such as Juma leads you through a small plantation of cloves, cinnamon, vanilla, cardamom, ginger, pepper, and tropical fruit. You can smell and taste many plants, watch a coconut climber, and shop for spices before your return.

“One of the highlights of our vacations. The tour was perfect from start to finish, fruits were delicious, the guide was proffesional, Sulley was great as an assistant guide and the singing tree climber the cherry on top. It was perfect and would recommend as an experience while in Zanzibar!”

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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

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

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 53 reviews · from $90Top rated

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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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

9.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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Zanzibar Spice Tour - Why Kidichi makes spices easier to understand
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Zanzibar Spice Tour

10.Zanzibar Spice Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 45 reviews · from $35

Start at 9:00 am from Forodhani or arrange pickup, then spend about three hours at Jambo Spice Farm with a local guide. Smell and taste spices, learn farming methods, sample tropical fruit, and possibly try coconut climbing. Seif and Souda have guided past tours.

“Lots of fun and very educational. We highly recommend! The spice farm is well organized and our tour guide was very knowledgeable”

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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

11.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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Zanzibar Stone Town Historical Tour and Spice Farm Tour - Meeting Stone Town at Forodhani
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Zanzibar Stone Town Historical Tour and Spice Farm Tour

12.Zanzibar Stone Town Historical Tour and Spice Farm Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 30 reviews · from $50

Join Ali or Daudi for a private Zanzibar outing that pairs Stone Town’s Palace Museum, Old Slave Market, House of Wonders, and Freddie Mercury’s former home with a hands-on spice farm visit, local lunch, fruit, and water. Pickup is included around Stone Town.

“Our guide Daudi was excellent. He was very knowledgeable and cared about giving us a great experience. He walked us through the spice farm and did an excellent job touring us around Stone Town. I highly recommend him to anyone who visits Zanzibar.”

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Stone town historical tour + Spice farm tour - Old Fort, the oldest building on the route
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Stone town historical tour + Spice farm tour

13.Stone town historical tour + Spice farm tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 29 reviews · from $55

Start with guide Kassim in Stone Town, visiting the House of Wonders, Old Fort, and Freddie Mercury Museum before driving to a spice farm. Expect a private group, bottled water, local food and spice talk, and about three hours at the farm.

“The spice tour was interesting and thorough, if a bit different to how we anticipated. It was very authentic and guides at spice farm were very friendly and welcoming. Our driver picked us up exactly as arranged, he was very pleasant and the cRead more”

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Luxury Spice Tour With Lunch - The guide shapes the experience
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Luxury Spice Tour With Lunch

14.Luxury Spice Tour With Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 24 reviews · from $45

Spend four to five hours at Jambo Spice Farm with a professional guide, seeing and sampling Zanzibar spices such as cloves, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Round-trip Stone Town hotel transfers, mineral water, drinks, entrance fees, and a spiced local lunch are included.

“10 of us U.S. journalists and professional friends traveled together. The informed and amiable tour guide taught us a lot about how spices are grown on the island. The lunch they cooked for us at the end was, we agreed, one of the best mealRead more”

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Zanzibar Spice Tour - Why Kidichi makes spices easier to understand
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Zanzibar Spice tour

15.Zanzibar Spice tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 17 reviews · from $70

From Stone Town, Mo Tours & Safaris takes you to Jambo Spice Farm for a hands-on walk among cloves, herbs, fruit, and trees. Guides such as Mohamed Ali and Ally explain plantation life, serve fresh fruit and a local Swahili lunch, and arrange hotel pickup and return. Allow about three hours.

“I am very thankful to Mohamed for making my family happy in Zanzibar through the best experience from the excursions, however for making the cost reasonable. Thanks again, we hope to come back again Insha Allah.”

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