What can you do when you are frustrated by the local circumstances, stressed by people, traffic and ever changing hotel beds, tired of being chased by touts, in short: sick of traveling? You clearly need a holiday!
And this is what we did for the last 11 days. We had a holiday from traveling. We found a place with friendly staff, good kitchen (both rare so far) and located on the beach. We kicked off our shoes and settled into a routine of kite surfing and reading every day. We hadn't planned to stay that long, but we felt so comfortable in the resort, we were surrounded by relaxed European holiday makers, there was a pool and of course an amazing beach, we just didn't want to leave anymore. The whole place felt so far away from the "real" Africa that we traveled so far, it made it easy for us to enjoy it.
Our kitesurf instructor (a German girl from Krefeld) mentioned the other day, that "Africa is definitely MY thing", whereupon I asked back, what other than Zanzibar she has seen of Africa and it turns out nothing. Yes, I thought by myself, if Africa is like Zanzibar, everybody would love it.
So we enjoyed our piece of paradise, chatted to other tourists, enjoyed good food along the beach and slowly made progress on our kitesurfing abilities, of course not without lots of bruises, scratches and twisted limbs.
And very surprisingly, after 10 days we admitted that slowly but surely we've had enough of carefree paradise, we were looking forward to being travelers again.
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