Well, Zanzibar is actually a few degrees south of the equator and that is, for us from the Northern Hemisphere, even more confusing... The sun appears to travel from the right to the left, the moon crescent is inverted into this unusual smiley position etc. Plus the constant sunlight, temperature, times of the sunrise and sunset all year round... The equatorial regions are very interesting to be around :)
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I bet it would be interesting, it would be soooo confusing! As much as parts of me wants to think summer and beaches all year round would be the coolest thing in the world, knowing the north, there are many aspects I would miss about winter as far as activities and scenery.
Here we get massive long days in the summer but really short ones in the winter. I used to work winter more north in the borealis forest which is much closer to the Arctic circle, it was even worse, 3 hours of daylight per day. Winter blues is a real thing out here and it comes from the lack of sunlight. On/near the solstice it's epic especially in the summer. something like 19 hours of daylight in the summer where I live on the longest days.
Yeah, the farther you are from the equator, the bigger the differences in everything are. Just 3 hours of daylight per day sounds crazy. The shortest day here in my country, on the winter solstice, is something like 7 hours of daylight... I actually hate it when it gets dark in the afternoon already, so depressive :/
7 hours I wish that was our shortest day! You are right tho about closer to the poles. We do have arctic communities and it's 6 months of darkness and 6 months of daylight. Now that would be trippy, except for winter tho.
be hard to tell if it's morning or night when you wake up from a nap!
Funny how we word things different based on where we live too. closer to the equator, closer to the pole. We have santa claus bahaha.