Day 8 of the trip – we are headed to the fabled land of Zanzibar! Tanzania turns out to be the name of the mainland, Tanganyika, combined with the islands of Zanzibar, and initials of Independent Association tacked on the end. They seem to operate separately – to get in to Zanzibar we had to show our passports and yellow fever certificates. We had to take a crowded very early morning ferry across a channel, trying to get out of the way of vehicles also on board, then a van to a big modern ferry. I sat outside at the front watching another ferry unload with people carrying off random…