A visit to Kilindoni (the main Town / City of Mafia Island for a City tour, dhow cruise, walks along the smooth sand beaches in addition to swimming and snorkeling with Whale sharks are the highlights of this short tour.

Itinerary Highlights.

Day 1: Zanzibar Airport to Mafia Island

Depart by the morning flight direct from Abeid Amani Karume International Airport to Mafia Island and this lasts about 45 minutes to 1 hour depending on the booked flight. On arrival at the spectacular Island, you will be met and greeted by our Tour representative then embark on the whale shark excursion. Your guide will lead you to the Whale Shark base for briefing and what to expect before hopping on a local boat to find them. Adventurous visitors can opt to swim with the whale sharks, with the best time to find high populations being the months of November, December, January and February.

Leave the Whale Shark base for Kilindoni City after a delicious meal with several options of traditional dishes, after which head for the tour of the City/Town. The time dictates the number of sites you will visit during this excursion but don’t miss-out the Utende Beach, Kilindoni market with variety of tantalizing things ranging from fruits to African wear. Before sunset return to your booked place of stay for BBQ dinner, bonfire and overnight rest.

Day 2: Half day adventure excursion and Flight to Zanzibar Airport

After the previous adventurous day and peaceful night, be treated to a lovely breakfast before pick-up by your driver. Your guide will check the tides before driving you to the Mafia Marine Park for snorkeling, which exposes you to several marine creatures that include moray eels, turtles, seahorse, sting rays, and octopus among others. If time allows, you will check-out the turtle nest and see the beautiful hatchlings and relax with a local BBQ lunch.

Also get a chance to tour the Utende Village where you might see the flying foxes and then drive back to Mafia Airport. Catch your flight back to Zanzibar Airport which is followed by drop-off at your Hotel or embarking on your International flight. This marks the end of your 2 days Mafia Island by Flight tour.

Prices starting from:

• $850 per person.
• $750 per child (3 – 12yrs).
• $500 above 2 yrs.
• Infant free.

PACKAGE INCLUDES:

• Complimentary Return transfers from your Hotel in Zanzibar.
• Return flight from Zanzibar.
• Mafia Return Airport Transfers.
• Accommodation as per program.
• Whale Shark Adventure
• Mafia Blue Safari Adventure
• Complimentary Visiting flying foxes at Utende village (optional if time permits)
• Complimentary Kilindoni City Tour (optional if time permits)
• BBQ lunch, snacks with soft drinks on tours.
• Snorkeling gears
• Conservation fees / Marine Park fees.
• All Taxes / VAT.

PACKAGE EXCLUDES:

• Marine Park Fees: US$ 23.60 per person per day.
• Personal items (travel insurance, visa fees, etc.).
• Any other activities or excursion not mentioned above.

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When you hear “Whale sharks”, you imagine a ferocious creature but surprisingly, they are naturally shy, gentle, peaceful and harmless sea creatures that feed on large quantities of plankton that they always hand up while swimming. 

Itinerary highlights.

Your Mafia Whale shark adventure begins in the morning with a 45 to 60 minutes flight chartered directly to Mafia Island. This is the best flight of your East African safari with stunning views over the Ocean, vegetation and other beautiful attractions  and on getting to the Island, you will be welcomed and greeted by experienced guide who will lead you to the starting point of the boat excursion.

First, be briefed on this adventurous experience before embarking on the traditional boat in the company of your guide to find the gentle whale sharks. You can swim or dive with the stunning sea creatures then head back to the starting point (Whale Shark base) for the nicely prepared and served BBQ Lunch. Enjoy your meal while interacting with other adventure seekers and afterwards undertake a short tour of Kilindoni City/Town.  

This relaxing City tour marks the end of your Mafia Island Adventure, then prepare for transfer to Mafia Airport for the chartered flight back to Zanzibar. Spend overnight at the Hotel in Zanzibar or get ready for the International flight (if it is scheduled for this day).

PRICE:

• $450 per adult.
• $350 per child (3 – 12 years).

PACKAGE INCLUDES: –

–           Complimentary return transfers from your hotel in Zanzibar.

–           Return flight from Zanzibar.

–           Mafia return airport transfers.

–           Whale shark adventure.

–           Complimentary Kilindoni city tour (Mafia Island).

–           BBQ lunch, snacks with soft drinks.

–           Snorkeling gears.

–           Conservation fees.

–           All Taxes / VAT.

PACKAGE EXCLUDES:

–           Personal items (travel insurance, visa fees, etc.).

–           Any other activities or excursion not mentioned above.

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Sailing dhows, adventurous activities (big game fishing, beach excursions and scuba diving), turquoise waters, mangrove-fringed sandy beaches and diverse marine life including outstanding Tropical fish species, describe the beautiful Mafia Island.

Itinerary Highlights.

Enjoy early morning breakfast at your hotel or with packed breakfast, transferred to Abeid Amani Karume International Airport for the 45-60 minute direct flight to the verdant Mafia Island. Meet and greet our Safari team on arrival at Mafia Island’s small Airport and they will usher you to the stand-by local boat for the ride to relish the mind-blowing Mafia Blue Safari.

The Mafia Blue Safari provides opportunities of snorkeling at the secluded Mafia Island Marine Park where bush babies, birds and others fauna species occupy the surrounding forest. Next swim alongside the annual whale shark migration, scuba diving with hopes of spotting the rainbow-colored clownfish, gigantic grouper, Octopus, dolphins, sharks and rays and many others.

Enjoy a BBQ lunch between these tours of Mafia and if time allows, you can add other adventures such as watching the Juani’s turtle hatchlings as one of the Island’s blossoming Marine Conservation Projects. Mafia Island is just an exceptional getaway spot. Stop by Utende Village to see the flying foxes, then drive back to Mafia Island Airport for your flight back to Dar es Salaam or Abeid Amani Karume International Airport. This marks the end of our the day trip(Mafia Blue Safari Adventure).

PRICES:

• $400 per adult.
• $300 per child(3 – 12 years).

PACKAGE INCLUDES:

–             Complimentary Return transfers from your Hotel in Zanzibar.

–             Return flight from Zanzibar.

–             Mafia Return Airport Transfers.

–             Mafia Blue Safari Adventure.

–             Complimentary visit to flying foxes at Utende village or Kilindoni City Tour

(Optional, if time permits).

–             BBQ lunch, snacks with soft drinks.

–             Snorkeling gears.

–             Marine Park fees.

–             All Taxes / VAT.

PACKAGE EXCLUDES:

• Personal items (travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
• Any other activities or excursion not mentioned above.

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Mzee Yussuf’s wife will prepare traditional Pilau, fish masala, roast beef, stewed bananas, kachumbari salad, several vegetarian dishes, an array of fruits, fresh fruit juice and his famous spice tea. This special lunch is taken in One of Mzee Yussuf’s house near the Spice plantation.

After lunch, we visit the Persian baths in Kidichi which were built for Sultan Said’s second wife Binti Irich Mirza (Sheherazade), who was the daughter of the Persian Shah. After the tour we will take you back to respective hotels.

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The biggest attractions of the island are the peaceful and natural environment. You will journey through the special nature trails passing a tunnel of fascinating indigenous undergrowth, listening to birds and small animals going about their uninterrupted business.

More than 40 species of birds have been identified on the island, including the endangered Roseate Tern. Snorkeling in the Reef Sanctuary is amazing; an uninterrupted coral garden stretches right from the shallow beach to a drop-off to about 16 metres deep, teeming with thousands of colourful fish belonging to 370 families, which is among the highest diversity found anywhere along the East African Coast.

Turtles and dolphins regularly visit the reef, and spiny lobsters peed out of their hostels confident that nobody will hunt for them, and you may even seen a huge grouper living only a few metres under the surface on the drop-off.

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It was an important transit point for the captured slaves to be sold to the outside world at the time of the abolishment of slavery in 1873. Between 1880-1905, the chamber was being used as a place of concealment of the human cargo pending their disposal.

A utilized as the hideout by the Arabs for their human cargo ready for shipment. The four hour guided tour begins and ends at your hotel. Mangapwani (“Arab Shore”) lies in a district where many Arabs used to live.

In the village there is a Police Station, also a large government “Bungalow” which was built by the Arabs who originally owned Prison Island. Newly opened Serena Restaurant is nearby the Slave Caves. Swimming, Sun bathing may be done widely.

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We will have time to play with starfish at the beach then setting again with Swahili dhows to Pange Island (Sandbank). On the way we serve breakfast with ginger spiced tea and juices, home made bread and tropical fruit.

Enjoy this nowhere island, covered twice a day by high tide,  an astonishing white surrounded by crystalline water, the ideal trip to relax and practice snorkeling to discover  treasures of Indian Ocean. On the sandbank we offer a variety of local fruits, beverages and snacks and later we will serve a lunch buffet of Swahili cuisine, Italian cheese, soft drinks and white wine. 

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Imagine yourself   having dinner in a traditional dhow enjoying the view of Stone Town, sipping your choice of drink and being entertained by a mix of traditional Swahili and classic international music.

You will enjoy the view of  the Old fort (Ngome Kongwe), the house of wonder (Beit-el-Jaib), Palace museum (which housed daughter & wives of Sultan), the Malindi Zanzibar old port, passing near mangrove to Maruhubi Palace ruin where the Sultan kept his concubines, lastly  you will arrive at Mtoni ruins where famous Princess Salme was born.

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Aboard our dhow with Latin sails that glides silently along the stone town coast of Zanzibar under starry and moonlit sky, we are giving you a wonderful honeymoon treat offering intriguing different view of this amazing Island, enjoying the scenery by evening with its soft silent wind which is truly mesmerizing.

We also entertain you with special welcoming services, snacks & soft drinks, just to make memorable your special date.

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Then we will drive to Stone town of Zanzibar where you will have a opportunity to see other local people in their daily activities as well, starting with former slave market, the House of Wonders and some narrow streets and lastly at the Old Market, here we will buy different items as per your preference for your lunch and then drive to one of a local house for the lunch preparation where you can also learn how to cook the local meals.

When the lunch is ready, we will have our lunch and later on we transfer you to respective hotels.

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You will visit one of the local houses and see how people are living, further more you will visit the local fishermen and fish market.
At Nungwi you will also visit the Sea turtle Project initiated by Eco & Culture as one of our ecological project. Sea turtles are endangered species world-wide, especial in Zanzibar sea turtles are widely extinct; this protection project raises sea turtles in a natural lagoon, in this aquarium sea turtles are bred.
After tour you will have some time to relax at the beach. This day trip price includes a guide, transport from your hotel and entrance fees, there are many restaurants around there where you can choose for lunch (not included in the trip price) 

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At lunch time you will take a boat to Kwale Island where you will have a barbecue lunch with a desert of variety of seasonal Zanzibar fruit and have a rest on the beach. Dhow sailing, is some thing interest to participate during this time, walking to see the old falling baobab tree, is another thing to be done by this moment before take a ride again to swim in warm Lagoon and sailing back to Fumba where your car will be waiting to drive you back to your hotel.

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You will go with a small motorised boat where maximum 7 people can sit together. Found the dolphin and this depending on your luck to see them! Even though there’s 85% chance to see them.

Please note that there is no guarantee to witness the dolphins and neither is always possible to swim with them.

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This island was used as quarantine, before the British built the prison for stone town in 1890s. The building never used as a prison though

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House of wonders (National Museum), Tippu tip house, former English club (Africa house) passing the alleys to see the different types of interesting doors, wooden balconies, also visit the Old fort, Palace Museum, Old dispensary, Former Slave Market and other interesting places.

This is a half-day tour.

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You will have the joy to sense black pepper vines, Cardamon bushes, Cinnamon trees, Nutmeg trees, Clove trees and Vanilla Vines, just to name a few.

A cup of spice tea will be served during a tour; also you will have a chance of trying climbing a coconut palm after learning from spice boys!

The tour will be combined with a visit to the Persian bath of Kidichi, which were built for the second wife of the first Arab Ruler Said bin Sultan one who lived at the Mtoni Palace Ruin. This is a half-day tour.

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