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Zanzibar in the Rain: Travel discoveries in East Africa

By Sarah Khan
New York Times·
11 mins to read
Zanzibar in the Rain: Travel discoveries in East Africa
Zanzibar in the Rain: Travel discoveries in East Africa

If my circumstances had not been so dire — or rather, if my circumstances had been drier — I might never have found myself at the Zanzibar Curio Shop.

At first glance, the store did little to distinguish itself from other trinket purveyors besieging the tangled lanes of Stone Town,

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