Zanzibar Jozani Forest Tour
This is a guided tour, which takes 3 hours to the Jozani Forest. The Forest is
the only remaining natural vegetation. It is a home of many endemic species of fauna and flora.
Here you will see the red colubus monkey, velvet cats, a variety of small trees, shrubs,
swamps and grasses. When walk through the mangrove board you will see prawns, and
different species of mangroves. The forest has an area of 2512 hectares, that
includes the whole ground water forest, coral rag forest and salt marsh
area. Though until recently, only the forest was gazetted, the area
together with the adjacent Chwaka Bay forest have been converted
into a reserve known as Jozani Chwaka Bay Conservation
Area (JCBCA).
Jozani Forest is located approximately 35 km southeast of Zanzibar township
in the southern region. It is a narrow neck between Chwaka Bay in the north and Uzi Bay
to the South. It contains about 100 species of trees in a total of 43 families.
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