One of the best spice plantations to visit is the Tropical Spice Farm, 5km northeast of Ponda.

You can go sailing and snorkelling and visit cocoa and spice plantations.

Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary is a green medley of rice paddies and spice plantations.

There is also a spice plantation near the reserve.

Our car, with driver to sultans' palaces and harems and spice plantations, cost $50.

Beyond the city's bustle, rural spice plantations produce a symphony of scents, a medley of nutmeg, vanilla, cinnamon and, as ever, cloves.

After the Chinese came the Europeans, mainly Scotsmen, who started their spice plantations and built bungalows and villas on the various hills.

Some of them are started by traditional farming families in the village and hence offer visits to their spice plantations as well for the tourists.

Her determination to bring unusual spices to the American market began a few years ago when she visited a spice plantation on Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania.

Be enchanted by exotic spice plantations, ornate architecture and beachside sunsets in Zanzibar.