Situated within southern Tanzania’s Shungi Mbili Island Marine Reserve and between the mainland of Tanzania and Mafia Island, magnificent Thanda Island is a private island that offers absolute exclusivity for families and friends to enjoy on a sole-use basis. Off-grid and solar-powered, Thanda Island offers guests an environmentally sensitive, fun and restorative Indian Ocean experience in total seclusion. Comprising an expansive five-bedroom villa featuring an impressive glass rim-flow swimming pool and a huge indoor aquarium to rival its outdoor counterpart, it combines casual beach-house living with outdoor ocean adventures. The villa accommodates 10 adults, with the option of additional children sharing. Guests are encouraged to slow down and soak up the relaxed tempo of island life; they will enjoy long lunches under the veranda, have fun making pizza in the outdoor oven and laugh late into the starry night around the outdoor cocktail bar. By day, they may choose to laze on the expansive deck that frames the house and the pool or prefer the feel of the squeaky white sand of their own beach between their toes. Eight hectares in size, 1.1 kilometres in circumference and 350m wide, the Island is surrounded by its own private coral reef, with a 1km exclusive-use zone, which can be explored with a snorkel and mask straight from the beach. Sailing boats, stand-up paddle boards and single as well as double kayaks are all on hand for the active. The more adventurous can catch sight of the whale sharks that congregate just south of…
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