Jozani Forest & Butterfly Tour

Until the Omani Arabs gave the order to cut all the rain forests so as to plant spices, the islands were covered with swamp forests, evergreen thickets, and mangroves. The last leftover of this original vegetation on Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar Archipelago, is Jozani Forest, located between the bays of Chwaka and Uzi.

The Forest

Inside the lush forest with its warm humidity, its thicket below, and its tall rare trees, you may well encounter a giant snail, a black monkey, a coconut crab, or even a python. A little further, there are Zanzibar Red Colobus Monkeys swinging through the branches of trees, grooming each other or eating. They are good friends with the Black Monkeys – because they do not compete for the same food! Again a few meters ahead we enter an amazing mangrove forest with roots that hold the trees like stilts in the water and branches of the sea entering the forest like rivers.

Butterfly Farm

On the way to Jozani Forest, we will pass by the nearby Butterfly Farm which, in cooperation with the WWF, is trying to preserve all species of indigenous butterflies. The villagers raise them in their homes and in this way can make some extra income, and the butterflies are released into nature. Only a few are kept in a big garden, protected by a net, so as to guarantee their continuing existence.

We pick you up at 08:30 AM in the morning at any location where your hotel is, we take you for a ride to Jozani Forest National Park where you will enter the park through the entrance gate and start your walking tours along the forest, you will get to experience different forest species of flora and fauna, by those different species you will have a chance to see the Red Colobus Monkeys that cannot be found anywhere in the world but only in the Zanzibar island. You will also have a chance to visit the butterfly center to see the varieties of beautiful and colorful butterflies that scatter around the Jozani Forest, We will continue with our walk by visiting the Mangrove Swampy areas of the forest and walking over the bridge to have a good view of its landscapes. After the tour, we will then go back to the entrance gate to sign out and finally take you back and drop you off at your hotel.

• Transfer To & From Hotel
• Professional Tour Guide
• Entrance fees
• Mineral Water
• Government Taxes

• Travel Insurance
• Tips & Gratitude
• Personal Expenses