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ZANZIBAR and PEMBA ISLAND - 10 days



AFRICAN DIVE TOURS AND SAFARIS / TANZANIA

ZANZIBAR and PEMBA ISLAND
9 Nights / 10 Days / Beach Lodge / Luxury Yacht accommodation 10 dives

Rate: Available on request

Departure Date: Available on request

Detailed Itinerary:

Day 1-4 / Zanzibar Island. Transfer Beach Lodge. Chalet accommodation Ensuite. B. 4 dives
Day 5 -10 / Pemba Island. Live Aboard yacht. BLD. 6 dives

ZANZIBAR

Swashbuckling adventurers, mighty Sultans, Arabian pirates and buried treasure! The 'Spice' Islands of the Zanzibar archipelago certainly have a colourful history. As a major trade route for the empires of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, Arabia, India, China and more recently Europe, everything from gold to slaves made their passage through these islands.
Today the ancient dhows still built to the same design as the vessels which for a 1000 years have plied the trade routes along the Eastern shores of Africa deliver a rather different treasure - an unimaginable underwater dive experience!

Zanzibar is a flat, palm-clad coral atoll surrounded by a shallow warm sea. Water temperatures average between 25 and 29 degrees C and visibility ranges from 20m to 60m (200ft). With conditions like this the world of Big 'Marine' Game will clearly be in view!

A series of fringing and atoll reefs provide suitable diving from beginner to advanced with depths from 6m to 35m. Shallow coral reefs, sloping banks and vertical drop-offs with hard and soft corals and over 350 species of Indo-Pacific marine fauna await you. Whale sharks, manta and eagle rays, bottlenosed, spinner and common dolphins, sailfish and marlin are also found. In deeper waters, lush coral gardens often stretch as far as the eye can see and large pelagic game fish - barracuda, kingfish, tuna and wahoo hunt together with large napoleonic wrasse.

PEMBA ISLAND

Pemba, lying 50km north of Zanzibar is a true island, rising sheer from great depth and topped with gentle, undulating hills and deep verdant valleys covered with dense clove, coconut and mango plantations.

The main reason people come to Pemba is for the marine life, so you shouldn't be surrounded by hordes of holiday makers on a "beach" holiday. Because of this 'exclusivity' the island remains a pristine tropical wilderness and this extends to the surrounding marine environment too.

The outlying islands of Pemba are beautiful and completely untouched, with untrodden sandy beaches. Some have remote villages, others are uninhabited. Spending a few days on a boat in these waters is superb and you can sometimes have the whole place practically to yourself.

The waters around these islands are among the richest and most exciting in the world and home to thousands of species of tropical fish and other exotic marine life.

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