Visit-Zanzibar-Island

Dolphin Tour

Kizimkazi village is one of the earlier capital of the Island where traces of an Old Shirazi settlement. There is an ANCIENT MOSQUE where an inscription records that the mosque was built in the 12th century, A. H. 500 (A. D. 1107) by a Sheikh Seyyid Abi Amran, who appears to have been a local ruler. Out-side the mosque is a well and graves of Sheriffs (descendants of the Prophet). Kizimkazi one of its attraction is the home of Dolphin of several schools of bottle-nosed dolphins and Humpback dolphins, which are sighted following a short boat trip from the village. Dolphin tour is one among the best tour; actually the guests can swim with the dolphins. They are very social themselves; if you are lucky you may get to play with them. Tour is only done early in the morning and afternoon; therefore you should be picked up from your hotel at 6:00am or 2:30pm.