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Zanzibar Island

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Dhow Restaurant and Beit el-Ajaib (House of Wonders).

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Zanzibar Island is a jewel in the ocean, surrounded by beaches that rate among the finest in the world. Here you can swim, snorkel or just lounge the hours away, while shoals of luminous fish graze over nearby coral gardens and pods of dolphins frolic offshore.

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