{"id":267,"date":"2015-07-07T03:37:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T07:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/?p=267"},"modified":"2015-07-07T03:41:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T07:41:13","slug":"mbweni-ruins-dhow-cruise-and-stonetown-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/2015\/07\/07\/mbweni-ruins-dhow-cruise-and-stonetown-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbweni Ruins, Dhow Cruise, and Stonetown Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our first weekend in Stonetown we were able to go on a couple excursions. Saturday we took a dala dala, the local bus, to Mbweni Ruins. The ruins seem to be the remnants of a huge stone palace, and they have an adjoining tourist beach. That evening, we took an evening cruise on a dhow boat and got to see some beautiful views of Stonetown at sunset.<!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ght-zanzibar\/files\/2015\/07\/IMG_3868-636x420.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3868\" width=\"415\" height=\"274\" class=\"  wp-image-268 alignnone\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/files\/2015\/07\/IMG_3868-636x420.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/files\/2015\/07\/IMG_3868-1024x676.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday we did a walking tour of Stonetown. Our tour guide, Elvis, taught us some interesting information about the city and it\u2019s rich history. A couple of the sites we saw were the preserved slave chambers and the local market.<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ght-zanzibar\/files\/2015\/07\/IMG_3908-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3908\" width=\"414\" height=\"311\" class=\"  wp-image-269 alignnone\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/files\/2015\/07\/IMG_3908-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/files\/2015\/07\/IMG_3908-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our first weekend in Stonetown we were able to go on a couple excursions. Saturday we took a dala dala, the local bus, to Mbweni Ruins. The ruins seem to be the remnants of a huge stone palace, and they have an adjoining tourist beach. That evening, we took an evening cruise on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ght-zanzibar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}