The butcher shops left me seriously considering conversion to a vegetarian diet.

Having grown weary wandering the maze of streets yesterday, we hire a taxi to take us to various destinations. Here we visit the city market.

Crime can be a problem in Stonetown and the police make their presence felt everywhere.

We start the morning with a very nice breakfast on the roof top.

Nico and I walked for hours in search of a shop that sold ice cream, something we had both developed a hankering for. We returned empty handed only to find it on sale in the atrium of our hotel which features an open air pool right in the center.

Although other forms of commerce now dominate, the heritage of a dependance on the sea remains in evidence.

We spend the afternoon strolling through the streets and along the shoreline.

The hotel features a 4th floor roof top restaurant with great views of the city.

We depart Matembwe for Stonetown where we will spend our last night at the Dhow Palace. All our accommodations on Zanzibar have featured mosquito netting over the beds. Malaria rates are very high on the island.

Nico spots this unusually colored lizard and sneeks up for a photo. It appears to be in the process of changing its coloring to blend in with the background.

I am not quite sure what these children are hunting for but every morning they can be seen wading through the shallow waters in search of something.

Our last sunrise at Matembwe. Although it is beautiful here, Nico and I are starting to feel ready to begin the journey home.

Once they figure out he’s got game, it is as if he is just another member of the community and play continues. Talk about the power of sports to bring people together. Several older boys and adults eventually come to watch as news of the one-legged white boy playing soccer spreads through the village. Nico has as much fun playing soccer with these kids as he has had doing anything else on our vacation.

Later in the afternoon, Nico and I leave the resort and walk into the nearby village. A group of about 30 boys are playing soccer and Nico decides he would like to join them. As he approaches the group they literally surround him staring at his missing leg and unusual crutches. Undaunted, he manages to communicate his desire to join them in the soccer game (more of a 5v5 tournament actually) and despite the fact that none of them speak English, he is out on the field in a matter of minutes.