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Article: Zanzibar; A pearl of many worlds; Just off the coast of Tanzania, the island of Zanzibar floats in the turquoise water of the Indian Ocean. The sea gave it shape and brought to it the cultures of Africa, Arabia, Europe and India. This quiet island remains an ideal place to watch the tides of the world ebb and flow.(TRAVEL)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 13, 2000
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Storm clouds, as black and heavy as anything could be and still hang in the sky, gathered in the east.
Underneath the clouds, the tide returned to the sea, like a turquoise carpet rolling off the floor of the world.
Two friends and I had settled into a cluster of $10-a-night beach huts on the east coast of the African island of Zanzibar.
It wasn't a town, or a village, or a development. It was a stretch of coast where some Zanzibaris make a living fishing and cultivating seaweed and a few people from other parts of the world come to forget their work and woes.
In the evening, after we'd savored crab soup, fried calamari, fresh fish ...