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Changuu Island Private boat trip in Zanzibar
- Duration - 3 hours, 30 minutes
- Boat Trips & Charters
- What’s this? After you book the Tour or Activity we send you your Tour Voucher or a Ticket(s).
The Voucher is your booking confirmation and tour providers can accept e-Voucher, printed Voucher or both Voucher types.
e-Voucher means that's enough, if you save received Voucher to your phone and show on the tour beginning.
Printed Voucher means after receiving the Voucher you have to print it and take with you to give it printed to the tour provovider at the tour beginning.e-Voucher, Printed Voucher - Cancellation PolicyStandard Cancellation Policy means that:
If you cancel this tour booking at least 14 days in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.
If you cancel between 13 and 3 days in advance of the scheduled departure, there is a 50 percent cancellation fee charged from the paid deposit.
If you cancel within 2 day(s) of the scheduled departure, or don’t show up at the meeting point on time there is a 100 percent cancellation fee charged from the paid deposit.
Standard - Guide options If the tour is guided here you can see available tour languages. Usually it means along the tour you have a professional tour guide guiding the tour in one or a few specified languages.
Some tours or Activities doesn't require the guide and have a pilots, instructors or simply provider's team member who take care of you along the tour. In this case it's marked as "Not Guided" tour, because it doesn't require a professional tour guide.Language: English - Pick-up from the Old Fort in Stone Town, Zanzibar.
Changuu Island Private boat trip in Zanzibar is an exclusive and private boat trip which can give you more history about the Arabs in Zanzibar and the ways they treat slaves to be In prison to trade them at Slave Market in Zanzibar and the reasons to become known commonly as Prison Island.
- To get history of Zanzibar about Changuu Island to become Prison Island and Quarantine Island in a current place!
- Have a beautiful day with a lot of new experiences with one of the best private tour guides in Zanzibar!
- Good opportunity to take Pictures with Peacock and tortoise from Aldabra Island!
- Discover Zanzibar in a unique private tour that is exclusively for you!
- Good opportunity to see what it is it now!

Changuu Island Private boat trip in Zanzibar
The Changuu Island Private boat trip in Zanzibar is for you, your family or group of friends only and we starting with 5 minute walking tour from the Old Fort to catch a boat for the trip to Changuu Island. It will take us approximately 1h 30 min to reach the Changuu Island. We will get tour guide who will show us the Builings what it looks like from now which has Swimming pool, Restaurant, Guest house,Prison rooms as history, Tortoise that we got a gift from Aldabra Island, Peacock, we can make some pictures and give us history about island was uninhabited until 1860s.
Majid Bin Said the first Sultan in Zanzibar gave it to Two Arabs who used it as a Prison for rebellious slaves prior to shipping them abroad or selling them at slave market in Stone town Zanzibar. In October 1891 the British Lloyd Mathews purchased from Arab with intention of building a prison on it. The prison was to have housed violent and recidivist criminals from the part of African mainland which was under the jurisdiction of Zanzibar.
Despite the prison buildings being completed in 1894, causing the island to be come known commonly as the PRISON ISLAND. In 1923 the old prison was converted into facility's hospital and the island was officially renamed 'Quarantine Island' and all the Quarantine cases would be taken from th ships and monitored for one or two weeks before being allowed to progress with their journey.
The main disease that was monitored was Yellow Fever. In 1919 the British governor of Seychelles sent a gift of four Aldabra giant tortoise to Changuu from the Island of Aldabra. From now the Quarantine station converted to guest house, European Bungalow turned into Restaurant and the island owned by the Government of Zanzibar.
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What's included
- Inclusions:
- Private Boat Fees.
- Entrace Fees.
- Guide fee.
- Bottle of Water.
- Private tansfer for return to your hotel.
- Exclusions:
- Lunch.
Itinerary
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changuu Island Private boat trip in Zanzibar duration is 3 hours, 30 minutes.
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