Saturday, June 15, 2013

Zanzibar Spice Farm

Who knew people farmed spices :)

 Fresh Vanilla on the vine. It is ripe once it turns black and starts to wither.
 Smelling the fresh cinnamon bark and leaves.
 Our Tour guides
 Cinnamon Trees
 Ginger plants
 "The ants go marching one by one!"
 Lemon Grass.... natural citronella. Bye bye Mosquitos
 Check out the woven frogs our guide made us around my neck
 Curry, yuuummm!
 Iodine. Who knew it came from trees?
 "Mr. Butterfly" climbing the tree to get us fresh coconuts.
 Fresh black and white pepper corns from the vine
 Its a skunk, its a cow, its a..... skow!
 Fresh cloves from the tree
 Star fruit
 We can't figure out what he's done to his hump....?
 Lipstick fruit

 Hershey's anyone?
 Spice Queens
 "The Spice Girls"
Zanzibar sunset!

Tune in tomorrow for pictures from our catamaran trip :)

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