PARADISE KEEPS ITS STAMP ON ZANZIBAR.(Getaways)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: March 2, 2000 | Copyright information

Storm clouds, as black and heavy as anything could be and still hang in the sky, gathered in the east. Underneath the clouds, the tide returned to the sea, like a turquoise carpet rolling off the floor of the world.

Two friends and I had settled into a cluster of $10-a-night beach huts on the east coast of the African island of Zanzibar. It wasn't a town, or a village, or a development. It was a stretch of coast where some Zanzibaris make a living fishing and cultivating seaweed, and a few people from other parts of the world come to forget their work and woes.

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