African Spoonbill Tours & Safaris | Pemba Island Excursions

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BEACH HOLIDAY | Pemba Island Excursions

Pemba is a 30-minute flight northeast of Zanzibar Island and, though comparable in size, it is less developed. Pot-holed roads lead through villages where women in bright kangas sit and chat, ox-drawn carts are stacked high with fruit, and the air is filled with the smell of spices. Drive for 40 minutes from the airport and hop in a boat to Wambaa Beach, where you’ll find the resort lodge of Fundu Lagoon. This has 18 tented rooms, six of them spacious suites, spread along the densely vegetated hillside above a beach.

All have sea views from their private verandas, quiet ceiling fans, a wicker sofa and a double bed draped with mosquito nets. The en-suite bathrooms have flush toilets, hot showers, washbasins and a range of the lodge’s own aromatherapy soaps and shampoos. Fundu has three bars: one in the main lodge, another mid-way along the jetty, and a third beside the swimming pool; some drinks are included in your stay, like the six house cocktails’ and house wine. There is a separate games room (with a satellite television), and a spa offering massage. A friendly team serves a choice of dishes from the imaginative menu in the dining area, and the pool bar serves snacks all day.

Fundu has a PADI dive centre that offers water-skiing, sea-kayaking in the surrounding mangroves, and day trips to nearby Misali Island, for snorkelling and diving. Due to strong currents off Pemba, we recommend some of the dives here only for the experienced, who will enjoy the adrenalin of drift-diving along the walls in the Pemba Channel and the large pelagic fish which come to feed there. Fundu is one of Tanzania’s most costly beach lodges and is popular with young honeymooners, often resulting in a lively atmosphere.

MNEMBE ISLAND

The term ‘barefoot luxury’ might have been coined for Mnemba Island: a private, previously uninhabited island about 5km from the east coast of Zanzibar. At its centre is a tropical forest, home to nothing more dangerous than cute, spaniel-sized suni antelope and butterflies.

The island’s circular perimeter is about a kilometre of soft, powder-white coral sand – perfect for an hour’s romantic stroll. Turtles nest on the beach, subtle markers noting when guests can expect to discover the young hatchlings. Beyond the pristine beaches lie turquoise seas and some of Tanzania’s best coral reefs – some within easy snorkelling distance of the beach.

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