Why a Zanzibar Beach Villa with a Private Pool Is the Only Way to Experience This Island
There are islands that make it onto a bucket list, and then there are islands that ruin every other destination forever. Zanzibar is firmly in the second category. Once you have stood barefoot on its white-powder shoreline, felt the warm Indian Ocean wrap around your ankles, and watched a dhow drift past a sky bleeding orange and pink — nothing else quite measures up. But here is what the travel brochures often miss: how you stay in Zanzibar matters just as much as the fact that you are there at all. A crowded resort with a shared pool and a buffet breakfast is a very different holiday from a private beachfront villa where the only people using the pool are the ones you arrived with. At Safaya Luxury Villas in Nungwi, we have been quietly offering the latter experience — and guests keep coming back, or sending their closest friends. This piece is for anyone weighing up their options and wondering whether a Zanzibar beach villa with a Zanzibar private pool is...