Darajani Bazaar

This guide to Darajani Bazaar in Zanzibar City starts with the bridge the market is named for, a plank once crossing the tidal creek Pwani Ndogo, and follows the sultan's government's decision in the 1920s to fill the waterway in rather than keep spanning it. You'll hear how the British colonial architect J. H. Sinclair and contractor Bomanjee Maneckjee raised a market hall here for Sultan Ali bin Hamud in 1904, and meet the people the surrounding buildings were named for, including Countess Estella. Walk the produce hall and picture the tide it once covered.