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A journey ,further down on to the laid-back island is Pemba.
It's not that there are no historic sites to visit, or a
lack of good beaches, because there are plenty of these.
Pemba's earliest ruins are those of Ras Mkumbu, on the peninsula
west of Chake Chake, where the Shirazis settled about 1200
AD.
To the east are the remains of a palace destroyed by the
Portuguese in 1520.
The island's other main attraction are the surrounding coral
reefs, rated by many divers as the best in the world. There
are flights from Zanzibar to Pemba every Wednesday, and
the most reliable boat connections are between Zanzibar
and Mkoani on the island's south-west end.
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