Zanzibar through photographs

highlights of our Babymoon through Stonetown, Pingwe, Nungwi & Fumba

Feb 20, 2025

It’s been a hot minute since I last wrote a travel post; and by travel I mean OVERSEAS or INTERNATIONAL trip. This was the last one hubby and I did, and it was back in 2021, during those crazy Co(n)vid days. I’ve always been one to swim upstream, so yes, the idea of traveling, 32 weeks pregnant with baby #3, to an African (ghasp…malaria ridden country) during a global ‘pandemic’ didn’t frighten me in the least. We had a WONDERFUL time but did swear to ourselves to never travel during Ramadan again. For some reason many of our travels have coincided with Ramadan and this has left us rather limited by restaurants & eating out options as we love to really immerse ourselves in the street food & more local establishments of the places we visit.

{Here is a link to the first Babymoon we had…to Italy…when I was pregnant with our first child, Everly. What a wonderful trip that was! I also looked remarkably fresh and fun loving, but the first baby will do that to you…unlike how I was looking & feeling with baby #3 haha).

I spent some time this morning going back through all my travel blog posts and it was evident to me just how much life BC (ie before children) was so free and open to any and all possibilities. Now our priorities have, understandably changed, but I have it in my heart to pack a backpack again soon and head off on a jetplane with hubby. Who knows, maybe we will get to do that in the next year or so, after which we would love to do it with all our kiddies, with South Korea being first on the list!

Here is a quick run down of where we went and how long we spent in each place:

Stonetown > 2 nights

Pingwe > 2 nights

Nungwi > 3 nights

Fumba > 3 nights

We flew from Johannesburg and had initially booked tickets with Mango airlines; but unfortunately for us, they went into business rescue the week before our departure…gosh what a nightmare that was. We lost the flights, sadly, but as the rest of our trip was already booked and mostly paid for, we scrapped all our pennies together and booked new flights with Kenya Airlines. At the time the flights were very reasonably priced, and we were determined to go on that trip!