Zanzibar 

We left our camp on Lake Malawi, and check out the second sign, hakuna matata.

 There were some marvellous scenic vistas with some banana plants in the foreground.

 I am interested in funeral architecture so I couldn't resist having a look at some graves surrounded by banana trees.

 The land is very fertile in the highlands due to the minerals in the volcanic ash so there are loads of different crops being grown.

The traffic in Dar es Salaam is bad and it took two hours to get across town but it also meant that I had a good look at the marshalling yards as we inched past.

We took the ferry from the mainland for the two hour journey to get to Zanzibar. Most of Africa was colonised by Europeans but this was colonised by Oman, the only non European colony on the continent. And as we made our way out from the centre towards our hotel on the beach, we passed David Livingstone's house, which now houses some offices of the Ministry of Tourism.

We were on our way to a spice farm for which the islands are renowned as previously they were called the Spice Islands. Only a few of the spices are indigenous but the warm wet climate makes the island ideal for growing just about anything,

 The small plants in the bottom of the picture are cardamon plants.

 This is a jack fruit.

 I was introduced to a lot of plants and I knew the final product by sight, smell and taste but the identification of the plant was a challenge. Hence I took to taking photos with the plant next to the sign.

 A grove of cinnamon trees and the cinnamon comes from the bark.

 One of the most expensive spices is vanilla, seen here as green pods which must be processed to turn it into the villa spice which we are all familiar with.

 The well known dorian fruit, notorious for its offensive smell but this one was dried and didn't smell of very much at all but it is so offensive and the smell lingers for a long time and it is banned from several public places, ferries and airplanes.

 And one of my favourites, the ginger plant.

 The humble aloe vera plant from which so many cosmetics are made.

 And how many people have seen a pineapple growing? This could be a hoax but I assure you that this is how pineapples grow.

And another favourite, although this is a bit blurred, these are cloves which are the flowers of the clove tree. The bit of the plant immediately behind the flower is the clove and the stem behind that is used to create oil of cloves.

 we had a taste of several locally grown fruits such as oranges, grapefruit, jack fruit and cocoa but no dorian which is one fruit that I would really like to try but have never tasted one. I only know it by reputation. And we had a taste of fresh coconut and one of the locals shimmied up a tree to cut one off. The tree was over 30 metres high but he just shimmied up it. The little dark smudge half way up is our local whose job is to harvest coconuts.

 A close up of out coconut harvester.