Hakuna matata. For those who don’t speak Swahili (or still haven’t seen The Lion King), it means "no worries". In Zanzibar, it is something people say all the time. It is what the airport official said in the arrivals terminal, just as the overwhelming humidity burst into a drumming rain drowning out the "Mister! Mister!" cries of currency converters waving fat wads of cash before I had even worked out the exchange rate. It is also what our tour guide said as I crouched under his umbrella and wheeled my suitcase across the soaked parking lot. "Our weather is unpredictable," he shrugged as we broke through a wall of taxi drivers, jostling for space as they held up passenger names. "Hakuna matata." Given its location 50km off the eastern coast of Tanzania and a few degrees south of the equator, Zanzibar experiences a similar climate all year, with a short rainy season from November to December and a longer one from March to May. By the time we reached our hotel, the clouds had parted ...
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