Diving in Pemba

The island offers an incredible mix of thrilling drift dives, marine walls and large reserves of pelagic life. Pristine reefs and dramatic vertical coral cliffs of more than 800 metres are the defining feature of many dive sites along the west coast. Coral gardens, sponges and sea fans cover these marine cliffs, which often stretch as far as the eye can see and host a fascinating array of colourful reef fish.  The view over some of these spectacular precipices is typically excellent, although local conditions mean that predicting visibility remains unpredictable.

Pemba is an island in the Indian Ocean off of Tanzania in East Africa, 30 miles north of Zanzibar. It is home to some beautiful scenery that has been left relatively unspoilt due to its location away from mainland Tanzania and Kenya. There are very few modern developments on the island with the few resorts being small and contained, and in keeping with the surroundings. There are also few tourists to Pemba and those that do visit mostly come for the diving and snorkelling. The hot sun, blue sea and green mangroves with no real evidence of human inhabitation except for the fisherman make it a picture-perfect island to explore. Interestingly it is also the centre for voodoo and people used to travel for thousands of miles to see the witchdoctors living there.

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