Meliá Zanzibar review: Tanzania’s relaxing full stop

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Known colloquially as the Spice Island, Zanzibar is a far cry from the Tanzanian mainland. Not only does the surrounding Indian Ocean feel a constant, soothing companion, but there’s a marked shift in pace, character and landscape. The air is hotter and thicker, brightly coloured lines of laundry dance in front of sun-bleached huts and people meander along roadsides with the kind of slow, relaxed stride that would enrage big city dwellers.

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