点评:Our experience in Zanzibar has culminated with a visit to Zanzibar’s only national park. The tourist experience is generally, terribly organised, unless you are the social media generation, which will be happy taking mobile phone images of the tame monkeys near the reception. They then get back into the minibuses and leave. It was an awful experience sitting in a minibus traffic jam
The guides and authorities are colluding with this ignorance and are becoming de-skilled. We had to persuade and persist getting a guide to escort us into the forest. In fact, there were raised voices in Swahili at the reception as they appeared to argue over who would take our small group into the forest.
Our visit was redeemed with an excellent guide called Adam. He was motivated by our interest in the forest. We feel that the best way to enjoy the forest is to get there well before the throngs of tourists and do the half day hike.
They won’t allow you into the forest without a guide. They say that this is due to two foreigners getting lost for two days some years back. However, there is no reason why they can’t create trails, walks and maps of the area. I really doubt that any money given by tourism goes into the parks infrastructure and development.
翻译:我们在桑给巴尔的体验,以参观桑给巴尔唯一的国家公园而画上句号。总体而言,那里的旅游服务组织得极其糟糕;不过对于那些热衷于使用手机拍摄接待处附近温顺猴子的“社交媒体一代”来说倒也乐在其中。拍完照后,他们便坐上小巴离开。坐在堵车的小巴里真是一段糟糕至极的经历。
导游和相关管理部门对这种糟糕状况听之任之,自身的专业能力也在逐渐退化。我们费了好大劲才说服并坚持请求到一位向导带我们进入森林。事实上,接待处还出现了用斯瓦希里语大声争论的情形,他们似乎在争论该由谁带领我们这个小团队进入森林。
幸运的是,我们遇到了一位名叫亚当的出色向导。他对我们对于森林的兴趣也深有共鸣。我们认为,欣赏这片森林的最佳方式就是在大批游客到来之前早早到达,然后进行半天的徒步旅行。没有向导的话,他们不会允许你进入森林。据说这是因为几年前有两名外国人迷路了两天。然而,他们完全有理由开辟步道、设置游览路线并绘制该地区的地图。我很怀疑旅游业所得的资金是否真正被用于公园的基础设施建设与开发。