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Maruhubi Historical Sites - Zanzibar City - Tanzania
Zanzibar City, Tanzania

Maruhubi Historical Sites

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Maruhubi Historical Sites

Zanzibar City, Tanzania

Rating★3.9(100 reviews)
AddressZanzibar, Tanzania
Museum

Last updated: February 11, 2026

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Opening Hours

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Tuesday
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Visitor Reviews

**★★★★★ Peter Daniels — 2 years ago

This surprised me! The ruins themselves don't have much to say, but the enthusiastic guide certainly did! He showed me round the rooms, and the nearby harbour, which was actually stunning. Shipbuilders were putting together new cargo vessels, and the guide even managed to get a triplet of fisherwomen to offer me a fresh mussel. Feel free to haggle on the entrance fee ;)

**★★★★★ Najwa Marafie — 4 years ago

Very nice historical place, but the government should give it a chance to rebuild and Put more efforts to attract the tourists. I highly recommend tourists to visited this palace specially the fisher man area where they are building and fixing their ships and dhow. We took a lot of beautiful photos. The historical Dhow their touched my heart ❤️ and I really believe that you can’t find authentic historical place like it. بالعربي: المكان قديم لي درجة انكم تحسون باصاله المكان خصوصا اذا كنتوا اهل بح

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**★★★★☆ Mr Moh'd — a year ago

Maruhubi Palace was built in 1881 by extravagant Sultan Barghash as pleasure house for his harem, the Palace was surrounded by an extensive wall enclosure with a garden planted with a great variety of mango trees imported by Sultan Barghash from India.

**★★★★☆ Nichika Sakurai — 2 years ago

I did not expect so much but i could enjoy a lot. This place is not the place if you dont have much time, but if you are looking for the place to shortly visit from Stone Town, here can be the candidate.

I took bodaboda (moter bike) at 5000tsh in stone town, and I got there after 15minutes drive. There is a guide and I he charged me 12000tsh per person , and guided me around the palace and also harbor.

Both the palace and the harbor were interesting. The palace is just a ruin now but the story

**★★★★☆ Drew Miller — 3 years ago

The site itself is a ruin, but was brought to life by a good guide. He was very knowledgeable on the history and construction of the old Palace. For me a really unexpected bonus was he also took us round the traditional boat yard. Got to see boats being hand made in a traditional way, a real insight into traditional local craftsmanship.

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