We asked around again this morning for house 551 near our hotel and did not come up with any new information. Need to find an old person to ask!
We checked out and headed with Amin, our driver, to Jozani Forest which was about 50 minutes away. We hired a park guide to take us to see Kirk's Red Colobus monkeys. These are an endangered species of which there are only 2,500 left of which 2,000 are in this forest. They are named after Sir John Kirk the same botanist and British Consul-Geneal that I have mentioned before. In our 1 hour walk we saw at least three large groups. They are extremely inquisitive and very photogenic because of this. Only exciting thing that happened in our walk was coming across army ants. We had to dash down the path and then madly try to brush off the ants as they were biting. They moved fast and got quite far up our pants legs before we got them all.
We proceeded on to Paje and chose the hotel Paje by Night which had a room with AC. Since taking the room the AC broke and we had a repair fellow in to get it fixed. We chose the hotel for free internet which has been spotty at best. The beach was not that enticing so perhaps we should have just gone back to Stone Town but then we would have wondered if we missed out on anything. The biggest group of tourists here are Italians. There is a kite boarding place here and that seems to be the biggest draw. It is not safe to walk on the beach or around after sunset. There is a guard patrolling the grounds of the hotel.
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