Zanibar - East coast for the best beaches

Best beaches on the world - this must come very close. This is a coral island so there is a coral reef surrounding the island, and a large area on the shore side of the reef that gives these turquoise blue shallows. It really is that colour - there has been no manipulation of these pictures. Probably the most pictureesque beaches ar eon the East coast around Paje. The name says it all - Paradise Beach Bungalows ($50 a night for double) is a Japanese run place with comfortable bungalows - so you get this beach AND sushi.



The food here is good Japanese home cooking with the standard burgers etc as well. They even have beach volleyball - Japanese net height!


We stayed at Sunrise Beach Hotel ($90 a night double) a little further North with French cuisine ( a bit more upmarket - better all round but also more expensive). This was the winter season (only 28 degC daytime tempertures, but sometimes cloudy, so staying at Sunrise Hotel - we only got one sunrise - I got up early every day and managed just this one sunrise.



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