Looking For an Old Friend in Stone Town (#27)

Stone Town, the gem of Zanzibar, has been well-known for awhile. Narrow alleyways, hundreds of years of history, the call to prayer blasting from loudspeakers and hordes of Russian tourists are just some of things you can expect to find there. On this trip my goal was to find an old friend who didn't have a phone. I'd have to dodge a million sales pitches along the way.
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That has to be one of the nicest comments I've ever received. Thanks Jessica! No plans to stop anytime soon

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Sorry about the wind noise in this one, the wind muffler fell off my camera, have to go diving for another one

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[@groundtrader173]

Herald complained that people didn't want to engage with him. As you speak Swahili, it will be very good if you can meet Herald and engage with locals together. Make happen pls

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[@SabbaticalTommy]

Thanks

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It's easy to remember, I have to say it all the time to the wauzaji 😂

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I like your videos, I am from Tanzania mainland we do speak good English too. Just like zanzibarians .there are a lot of international schools this side.

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Place is soooo beautiful

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[@mohamedhaji2434]

Thank you so much brother for visiting our island here in Zanzibar and congratulation for learning our Swahili language as well you are good student who speak good swahili too. Okay today I would like to teach you a new words in Kiswahili that you wrote as ( music ) here in this video. So first place that you wrote music it was Qu-ran. when you heard a radio played Qu-ran . So I realized that maybe you don’t know how you May say that word. So word Qu-ran origin is Arabic names but in Swahili language we write it like this 👉🏾KURAN this is first word that I would like to teach you my brother and the second word that I would like to teach you is call Adhaan . Adhaan is a Arabic name as well but in English it’s known like Muslims call but when you want to say it in Kiswahili you have to add a ending of word Adhaan so it will be Adhaana . I hope you learning new two new words today in Kiswahili and i wishing you have a nice day brother . Welcome to Zanzibar

[@Officialmohamed24]

Great vlog whitea

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COOL VIDEO, AT LEAST IT'S SAFE, JUST ALOT OF POOR PEOPLE EXCEPT THE POLITICAL CLASS AND CONNECTED!👍

[@theSalukie]

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Tanzania used to be called Tanganyika, when Zanzibar & tanganyika united as one it became Tanzania. = Tan-za-nia

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[@SabbaticalTommy]

@@TabeshKhan I wouldn't rather be anywhere else than Tanzania right now ;)

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[@SabbaticalTommy]

Glad to hear you've been around since Mexico! Kenya is in my plans in the near future

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@@SabbaticalTommy I should be there in a few months. I need to really cram my Swahili study. Lol

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And now it's almost 100k!

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6 months on and 133k. Well deserved. Awesome channel

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@@muchtoyearn now it is 170k

[@createlovehappy]

how did you pick up Swahili so well? I'm trying Duolingo now but it's a bit random. Did you take lessons or go to a school in Dar?

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Dude that was cool Chinese language I loved it alot

[@SabbaticalTommy]

谢谢

[@shpsam]

Stone town everything good I been at there 3 times and 4 times in Dar Es Salam and Tanga , Dodoma , Morogoro Mosuma Mwanza everything good in TZ , but Everything bad in Kenya for me haha ,will visit TZ again never go To Kemya again too !

[@WorldUkulele]

Thanks. That was very interesting...some more Kiswahili practice for me.

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That's awesome! But are you sure YOU'RE not a CIA recruiter trying to lure me in!? I see through this scheme!

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Zanzibar is #1!

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[@kenbina]

"You're not military, you're not mercenary then what are you... lost tourist?" 😂 I thought of Rambo part 3 when I watched this for some reason. "You speak Swahili well, for a tourist". 👊😎

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You re well come Tanzania🇹🇿 Zanzibar 🇹🇿

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Hello

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@@onekoguidgan5023 Hello dear

[@licorice71]

Youre swahili is impressive...for a Russian

[@SabbaticalTommy]

да

[@mariaamabwi1854]

We once got lost in those tiny corridors...they are almost the same for sure

[@SabbaticalTommy]

Google Maps is useless

[@alfredomunoz8361]

What's the name of that museum

[@SabbaticalTommy]

I can't find any info online but it was called the Zanzibar Historical Art Museum or something like that. It's down the street from the hospital in Stone Town

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@@SabbaticalTommy yes 😅 is the guy you were looking for called abdullah ?

[@SabbaticalTommy]

@@MiRa-pi5kq I really can't remember! He didn't have a phone, and then I lost the phone that had his name in it

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[@Boznaniac]

I'm Eastern European ✌ Greetings from Bosnia 🇧🇦

[@kakalibagchi9224]

Right now Mr Harald Bolder the famous youtuber is there (Stone town). Please meet him and make a joint video.

[@mohamedsiadi8144]

You should link up with harald baldier he’s also in Tanzania

[@SabbaticalTommy]

It would be cool but he's hard to reach. Maybe I'll bump into him while I collect seaweed

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It would be great!!

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[@Tino_Official_tz]

You always so charming... by the way how many languages did you speak? I see you read very good Chinese

[@SabbaticalTommy]

Basically 8. I speak some pretty well and the others enough to talk myself out of trouble

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@@SabbaticalTommy how old are you if you dont mind me asking. You seem pretty young to have learned so many

[@Tino_Official_tz]

@@SabbaticalTommy hahaahahahha waoh 8 languages!!! I do only 4 languages. that's so impressive

[@SabbaticalTommy]

@@thenomad1130 34, which is very young if I live to 120

[@SabbaticalTommy]

@@Tino_Official_tz "Only" 4 languages...that's 3 more than most Americans or Brits ;)

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amazing how you do speak many difficult languages. how is your method apart talking to people in the streets ?

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Anasoma shuleni ya lugha

[@Benj722]

I like when you always want to be with locals. Clearly tourism acts aren’t your thing

[@SabbaticalTommy]

They're definitely not. Unless the tourists are Russian

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Almost time to break out the konyagi

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Go for it Matt. Everyone and every country is different, you have to feel it out. Mexicans are very laid back about it but you can always ask if you want to be polite

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I think he has a gift for languages.

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Hello sir. Could you please tell me how many languages you speak?

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[@dayalasingh5853]

10:38 oh that's why I recognized the word Rafiki, I'm Punjabi and the Mughals ruled there for a while.

[@SabbaticalTommy]

Interesting, it's a word in Punjabi too?

[@dayalasingh5853]

@@SabbaticalTommy other words are more commonly used like "meet", also my Punjabi isn't that good, but yeah I assume it's a loan word from Arabic.

[@ItsLahai]

You should collaborate with Harald Baldr he is in Stone Town. On KZbin.

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The guy you looking for, his name Is jape

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You sure? Send me a message on Instagram

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7:55 how did you get rid of him ?

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🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿✌

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I would like if you would like us to work together to increase efficiency in this as I have the ability to shoot and edit with the camera I have.

[@MohammedMohammed-uo5sk]

Congratulations muzungu for learning kiswahili and taking video of zanzibar town. Iam congratulating u do to the fact that ur enlightening various viewers like me on zanzibar and yet iam just miles away in msa.

[@SabbaticalTommy]

Usi waze ndugu wangu

[@gratitude5740]

Isn't that derogatory to call Caucasian people mzungu ?

[@akinyoz]

@@gratitude5740 it’s actually not, it basically means “foreigner” nothing tied to race ;)

[@ryancourts2726]

Lol at the coke joke

[@thundercatsito]

Hehe... It seems like someone stole your heart last time in zanzibar...

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That was the greatest reason to support Donald trump I've ever heard

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😂

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6:20 Hakuna matara

[@SabbaticalTommy]

No worries

[@teychriss3248]

Is hakuna Matata!

[@haggishead7558]

Mental note to avoid this place when I go to Zanzibar. Looks like a real tourist trap.

[@dynamite925]

You’re wrong brother. Zanzibar has one of the best night life

[@SabbaticalTommy]

Yeah the north and east coasts are a different story. Currently recovering from a hangover in Paje 😂

[@dynamite925]

@@SabbaticalTommy haha glad you’re having a blast. When will you return to Dar?

[@SabbaticalTommy]

@@dynamite925 Soon but not that soon

[@sammulhat9400]

@@SabbaticalTommy man link up with harald baldier he`s in Zanzibar right now , will be a good video

[@rafarafa2725]

très jolie stone town 👌

[@Johmatri]

How many languages does this guy speak?

[@aishaasumany561]

Huku kumekaa kama kibokoni mombasa kenya

[@thomasricardo9833]

After WW1 the Germans and the British made a deal. The Germans surrendered Zanzíbar against a little island in the north sea called Helgoland.

[@Kyra_of_Kerkyra]

Swahili, Chinese, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, English. Which language am I missing that you also speak? 👍

[@W4rM4chine82]

Where is faki party?🏍️

[@adoftw3866]

03:44 i didnt know the monkey from lion king means "friend" 😁👌

[@vithalrao.bijapur]

Dear, brother have you not met with any Indian origin in stone Town ?

[@563421094]

Freddy Mercury was born and lived there

[@mpforeverunlimited]

First

[@allangodi3041]

somethin else u need to know about zanzzibar is that this was the birthplace of freddie mercury.

[@stevejobz4481]

你的汉语非常好， 你学习汉语在什么中国城市？

[@SabbaticalTommy]

在上海学的。你原来也会啊 怎么可能 哈哈

[@stevejobz4481]

@@SabbaticalTommy 我目前正在沈阳市攻读学位。我是坦桑尼亚人. Nimepamiss nyumbani ndio maana nina tazama video za hivi karibuni . Karibu Zanzibar , jipatie nyama choma ya papa, pweza,ngisi na ushushie na urojo-mix hapo Forodhani

[@SabbaticalTommy]

@@stevejobz4481 我去了Forodhani, 好不错的市场！

[@dayalasingh5853]

4:58 I'm queer so probably not as safe for me

[@Copilot1204]

Hey wassup sabbatical I love your vids but let these people speak you kept cutting that guy off . I wanted to hear what he had to say .

[@Officialmohamed24]

🛰🛰🌿🌿🌿🌬

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5:59 Tanzanian troll

[@jasonpetersharpe]

Islamic architecture is beautiful