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the few places in town serving beer) is worth considering. There's just one self-contained
room. Because it's isolated and often empty, single women may not feel comfortable here.
Dalla-dallas to Vitongoji pass near; get off at the big white Qadiriya Mosque and follow
the signs.
EATING
There's a small town-centre night market where you can get grilled
pweza
and
maandazi
(doughnuts) and experience a slice of Pemban life.
Pemba Misali Sunset Beach
EUROPEAN, TANZANIAN $$
(Wesha Rd; meals Tsh8000-16,000; breakfast, lunch & dinner) Dine seaside on a mix of
local (coconut curry with prawns) and international (macaroni and cheese) food. It's 7km
west of Chake Chake in Wesha.
Ahaabna
TANZANIAN $
(top fl, Le-Tavern, Main Rd; meals Tsh5000-6000; lunch & dinner) Serves just one
meal a day, either pilau or biryani with a choice of green bananas, chicken or fish, but for
our money it's the best food in Chake.
Balloon Brothers
SNACKS $
(Market St; snacks from Tsh100; lunch) This is a local haunt which offers snacks such
as samosas, sugar-coated
ubuyu
(baobab fruit) and bungo juice, the latter being very popu-
lar on Pemba.
Nabahani
TANZANIAN $
(Misufuni St; meals Tsh1500-3000) Typical local dishes like beans and rice, ugali and fish.
Chake-Chake Needs
SELF-CATERING $
(Wete Rd; 8am-4.30pm & 5-9pm) This dishevelled little grocery stocks exotic items
like peanut butter, pasta and cornflakes.
INFORMATION
Health
Dira Hospital
(
0777-424418; Wete Rd; Machomane;
7am-9pm) A private clinic
with pharmacy.
