From Zanzibar: 3-Day Mafia Island Whaleshark Safari

About this experience

Day 1:. Transfer from your Zanzibar hotel to the airport where you will fly to Mafia Island with a quick lay-over in Dar es Salaam. After arriving in Mafia you will check-in at Kinasi Lodge, just 10 minutes from the airport. Once at Kinasi the excursion team will take you one one of their adventures in the Mafia Island Marine Park: snorkelling or diving with a picnic lunch or a boat safari to the Kua Ruins and Blue Lagoon, a coral grotto linked to the ocean. Activities are chosen according to the tides to ensure you have an unique experience, whatever the situation on the day. If tides are low we picnic on Marimbani sandbank in Chole Bay; if they are high we go to Miewe Island or Mvinje Beach near the Kua Channel. Day 2:. After early breakfast from 0700 you will transfer by road to Juani Beach near Kilindoni (the main town on Mafia) where you will be guided by our very experienced team of freedivers on the whale shark excursion on our specially fitted boat. On all excursions you will have fresh fruit, cakes and water. After locating and snorkelling with the sharks we return to Kinasi or take a picnic at Fungu Sefu sandbank (if the tides are low). Swimming and free diving for the whale sharks is very energetic and you will have to work hard to keep up with them and enjoy seeing them up close, a very memorable experience. Back at Kinasi you will enjoy a sunset cruise under sail to watch the…