Zanzibar - a three-stage touring camp for teenagers

One fixed itinerary for a single group, led in French by a qualified director and camp leaders. There are no optional modules and no lessons. The island is covered in three stages — Stone Town, Paje and Nungwi — and every participant follows the same route. The operator announces a minimum of twelve and a maximum of twenty-four participants, with one adult for every eight young people.

The school offers a special discount — ask us for details. The price covers return travel from Paris, full board, the full supervision team, repatriation and personal accident insurance, accommodation, local transport, the activities listed by the operator, and the educational and administrative follow-up before and after the stay. Personal spending is not included. Departures from French cities other than Paris are offered as paid options.

Simple hotels, including the guest houses common on the island. Rooms sleep two to four, with bathrooms inside the rooms and private showers. A shared kitchen is available. The group changes base three times during the stay, following the route from Stone Town to the east coast and then the north of the island.

Full board. Meals are taken in small local restaurants so that the group eats Zanzibari food rather than hotel catering, and one meal on the programme is fish grilled on the beach after a boat trip.

Walking Stone Town: the spice and produce markets, the narrow lanes of the old town and the evening food market at Forodhani. Time on the ocean at Paje, a village the operator picked for being away from the large resorts. A trip by traditional dhow out to the Mnemba reef for snorkelling, followed by grilled fish on an empty white-sand beach. Along the way, the giant protected tortoises and the monkey species found only on the island.

Accommodation is in simple hotels and guest houses with rooms of two to four, bathrooms inside the rooms, private showers and a shared kitchen. There is no fixed campus: the group is based in three different places across the island during the stay.

Zanzibar is treated as three different places rather than one beach. A dense, layered old town with African, Arab and English influences; a village on the Indian Ocean where daily life is still the main event; and a northern coast reached by dhow. The operator sums the island up as a place where taking it slowly is an art, and the programme is paced accordingly.