{"id":15,"date":"2026-10-05T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issamtours.com\/?tour=spice-farm-tour"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:02:52","slug":"spice-farm-tour","status":"publish","type":"tour","link":"https:\/\/issamtours.com\/?tour=spice-farm-tour","title":{"rendered":"Spice Farm Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zanzibar\u2019s fame for spices is agricultural, not decorative. This visit is a working farm in the interior, usually around Kizimbani or a neighbouring village. You walk under clove trees, crush cinnamon bark, see vanilla orchids, nutmeg, cardamom, pepper, lemongrass, and the fruits guides like to surprise people with \u2014 lipstick fruit among them. You taste as you go. It is shaded, but the path can be uneven and sometimes muddy after rain. A Swahili lunch can be added in the village if you want the day to run longer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guide price:<\/strong> from USD 40 per person. Replace this number when you edit the trip.<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Clove, cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg, and pepper on the tree<\/li>\n<li>Tasting as you walk<\/li>\n<li>How the spices are dried and sold<\/li>\n<li>Time for questions, not a script shouted from a bus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Included<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Farm guide<\/li>\n<li>Tastings<\/li>\n<li>Private vehicle and driver<\/li>\n<li>Hotel pickup<\/li>\n<li>Bottled water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Not included<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lunch, unless you add it<\/li>\n<li>Spice packages you choose to buy<\/li>\n<li>Tips<\/li>\n<li>Entrance is included; shops are not compulsory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Questions<\/h2>\n<h3>Is lunch included?<\/h3>\n<p>Not on the half day. Ask us to add a village lunch if you want to stay through midday.<\/p>\n<h3>Can this join Stone Town?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes. Farm in the morning, town in the afternoon, or the reverse. That becomes a full day.<\/p>\n<h3>Are the shops compulsory?<\/h3>\n<p>No. You may buy cloves or vanilla. You do not have to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloves, cinnamon, vanilla, and pepper on a working farm, tasted where they grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16,"template":"","class_list":["post-15","tour","type-tour","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issamtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tour\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/issamtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tour"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/issamtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/tour"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issamtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issamtours.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}