The Manta Resort Pemba Island

If it’s serenity, close encounters with nature and a family of staff you crave, then the rustic Manta Resort might be just the place for you. Elevated and crafted along an idyllic island beach, The Manta Resort offers privacy, romance, adventure and water sports on East Africa’s finest island sanctuary. This is a remote island off the east coast of Africa, and probably as far away from civilisation you might ever find yourself. The Manta Resort is not a 5 star luxury resort and certainly different to what you might find on other tropical islands.

Switch off your noisy, pressurised, polluted electronic world and enter a completely different one – not as a tourist, but as a sentient human being with simple needs – sunshine, fresh sweet-smelling air, natural food, a pristine comfortable bed and friendly company to care for you and yours. All to be found folded into the edge of a primitive forest and set on rising land overlooking the purest, most turquoise waters that ever caught your breath – these waters hide secrets of the most exquisite kind – coral reefs unspoilt – and they are fringed by snow white, delicately soft sand on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

The local staff, trained from the go to translate their natural unspoilt kindness and happiness into helping you in all ways to enjoy freedom and low-key modern comfort. A group of good people who proudly endeavour to make Manta the special place it is. From the moment you arrive, your every conceivable activity and service during your stay will be Fully Inclusive (with the exception of diving and outside tours). You will have your own service fundi – a member of staff assigned to assist you personally – even perhaps to take you on visits to his village to meet relatives – if you so wish.

Spend your nights in the superior garden rooms or seafront villa's that are are air conditioned with a king size four poster bed and private makuti thatch covered terrace. Alternatively upgrade to Africa's only true underwater room - A private floating island with your bedroom four meters below the surface. It is yours to enjoy in complete privacy while sunbathing and stargazing on the top deck, lounging and dining on the water deck and sleeping surrounded by a tropical marine environment.

Optional excursions from the resort include: sandbank trips, dhow trips / sunset cruise, kayaking, rainforest tour, local village and school trip, lighthouse walk, fishmarket trips, snorkeling and scuba diving. The diving around Pemba Island is breathtaking. The untouched coral reefs surrounding the entire island make Pemba one of the top dive sites in the world.