Mafia island explore tour

Mafia island explore tour We do our best to res a and Zanzibar and is part of a fascinating array of parks, reserves and Indian Ocean islands.

We make reservations / bookings all over Mafia island and Zanzibar for; Budget Accommodation, Guest House, beach hotels - tours and excursions, diving, snorkeling, game fishing, local fishing, sight seeing, car hire and boat trips. The coral reefs, bays, sand bars, lagoons and beaches of the Mafia Archipelago are now part of the Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania’s first marine national park. On

ly a thousand visitors a year come here so it remains very much a traditional Swahili Coast destination and really can lay claim to the title of “unspoilt”. Mafia is the destination for those who truly wish to “get away from it all”. Even after two decades of a love affair with Mafia we are still discovering new beaches, previously unrecorded birds, plants, fish and corals, new dive and snorkel sites….and we continue developing new excursions for the enjoyment.

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he Mafia archipelago consists of one large island (394 km²) and several smaller ones. Some of these are inhabited, such as Chole Island (2 km²), with a population of 800. Chole Bay, Mafia's protected deep-water anchorage and original harbour, is studded with islands, sandbanks and beaches. The main town is Kilindoni. The stretch of water between the deltas of the Rufiji River and the island is called Mafia Channel. There are popular rumours of pygmy hippo on the island but there are no confirmed sightings.

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Mafia Island's history goes back to the 8th century. The island once played a major role in ancient trade between the people of the Far East and East Africa. It was a regular stop for Arab boats. On the tiny island of Chole Mjini, just offshore in Chole Bay, once stood a settlement that constituted one of the most important towns controlling trade from the silver mines of Eastern Zimbabwe, which reached the town via the old ports of Kilwa and Michangani.

In the mid 1820s, the town of Kua on Juani Island was attacked by Sakalava cannibals arriving from Madagascar with 80 canoes, who ate many of the locals and took the rest into slavery

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Tanzanian Spice Islands, together with Unguja and Pemba. As one of the six districts of the Pwani Region, Mafia Island is governed from the mainland, not from the semi-autonomous region of Zanzibar, of which it has never been considered to be a part.

According to the 2002 Tanzania census, the population of the Mafia District was 40,801.[1] The economy is based on fishing, subsistence agriculture and the market in Kilindoni. The island attracts some tourists, mainly adventure scuba divers, game fishermen, and people wan

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Mafia Island Hotels and B&Bs: Read traveler reviews and see photos for 8 hotels and B&Bs in Mafia Island, Tanzania.

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Dar Es Salaam

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