Changuu

Zanzibar Islands · Tanzania

Changuu, Tanzania
Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
June to October and December to February, in dry weather
Budget
$
Coordinates
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Known as Prison Island, this islet near Stone Town holds a never-used 19th-century detention building later converted into a quarantine station. Today most visitors come for its colony of giant Aldabra tortoises, some over a century old, and a swim off the small beach.

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