The island is charming and interesting. The history is fascinating and the tortoise are just cool. Also a great place to find cool shells if you come early enough. There is also good snorkeling right off the island.

I came there with a group, short and comfortable boat ride. It was wonderful time spent with peaceful and some cuddly tortoises followed with a warm dip in a clean and azure ocean

Quite mediocre place, nothing much to see, except for the gigantic turtles. We expected to see and learn more about the prison. This place wasn't worth the time and boat trip.

Did this trip after walking tour of Stone Town. 20/30 min boat ride from Stone Town into island. Tortoises amazing some extremely old, chance to feed and touch them. Chance to have a sea swim which was very welcoming as extremely hot day. Worth a...More

Okay, if you have nothing better to do for a few hours whilst in Stone Town its a nice boat ride out and back but the experience on the island is underwhelming. The turtles are impressive creatures but now that they are fenced in (they...More

If you are staying in Stone town I would recommend to take a half day trip to look at tortoise. If you also want to stay on the beach and swim over there you can take a whole day trip. It is very interesting to...More

Really a nice excursion to go, in front of stone town , maybe 30 minutes to go , we swim, we see so many big and old turtles , and the old Prison, don't miss if you have time