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Unguja Ukuu is an archeological site on the island of Zanzibar. Zanzibar is located south of the equator, central along the east coast of the African continent. It is positioned 25 miles from land and separated from the African continent by the Zanzibar channel (30–40 m deep). Zanzibar is the largest island of the Zanzibar archipelago.
It was inhabited between the 12th and 15th centuries CE, a time of expansion and growth for many Swahili sites along the East African coast. The first known Swahili or proto-Swahili sites are dated to the 6th and 7th centuries, and some of the earliest Swahili settlements can be found on Zanzibar at places such as Unguja Ukuu and Fukuchani ...
Accounts of a vast inland sea, and the discovery of the snow-clad mountains of Kilimanjaro in 1840–1848, stimulated the desire for further knowledge about Africa in Europe. In the mid-19th century, Protestant missions were carrying on active missionary work on the Guinea coast, in South Africa and in the Zanzibar dominions. Missionaries ...
A year in Svalbard is marked by two unusual periods of light: polar night and midnight sun. Polar night runs from mid-November to the end of January, when the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon.
One place where you can do this is the popular ‘Google Earth, Structures and Anomalies’ group on Fa 50 Times People Found Such Strange Things On Google Earth, They Had To Share Them (New Pics)
Former house converted to People's Bank of Zanzibar after revolution In 1964, Stone Town was the theatre of the Zanzibar Revolution , which brought about the removal of the sultan and the birth of a socialist government led by the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP).
While some communities are still nomadic, there are many remote and isolated communities in the less populated parts of the world that are separated from each other by hundreds or thousands kilometres of "uninhabited" wilderness, but these regions are still used for trapping, berry picking, mushroom hunting and so on, and are of spiritual ...
Retiring abroad is a dream for many Americans, and the reasons to make the international leap can vary. Whether it's the quest for greener or more exotic pastures, the search for adventures or to...