Zanzibar: Seaweed and Paje Village experience Tour

It gives you the opportunity to see and learn about the seaweed farming and products that are made and the beautiful social impact this project
The Seaweed Center is a socially responsible initiative that provides over 40 female seaweed farmers in Paje, Zanzibar, with an opportunity to better their lives and benefit their community. The project comprises seaweed farms on the Paje Beach, a gathering site for seaweed processing as well as a seaweed products factory.

The factory produces soaps, creams and other treatment scrubs from seaweed flavored with other organic ingredients such as Lang Lang that are currently sold locally to the villagers around, to the neighboring tourist hotels, in Stone Town and slowly beginning to be distributed around East Africa.

Visitors on a tour to the Seaweed Center get a rare opportunity to experience the daily life of a seaweed farming woman, the facilities and the capacity building activities that the Center provides. Visitors are invited to go out to the beach farms to plant, tender or harvest seaweed for a hand-ons experience on ocean agriculture which is an important economic activity for many women living on Zanzibar's East and Southern Coastline.

Moreover, you'll got a chance to experience the daily local life of Zanzibar indigenous by involving in the daily activities such as cooking classes and by doing the local dressing.

To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.

This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.