I visited the backpackers' version of the Maldives — go now before it's too late

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I visited the backpackers' version of the Maldives — go now before it's too late
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Metro's Sophie-May Williams flew thousands of miles to the Maldives dupe in East Africa, and found best time to visit - and challenges arising.

Bomshell beaches and cosmopolitan culture await on Zanzibar Palm trees laden with fresh coconuts. Rippling azure ocean. Ivory sands, velvet to touch. Perhaps you’ve painted a mental picture of the Maldives , but this divine scene is Zanzibar, an enchanting island 35km off Tanzania on Africa’s East Coast.

One of the largest and last open slave ports in the Indian Ocean, Arab slave owners once controlled the shore. It wasn’t until 1897 – six decades after Britain passed the Slavery Abolition Act – that Zanzibar officially outlawed the heinous trade.

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