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Thanda Island – One of The World’s Most Exclusive Tropical Islands

Miriro Matema by Miriro Matema
April 12, 2018
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Thanda Island – One of The World’s Most Exclusive Tropical Islands
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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 the Island from October to February or spot the endangered dugong while scuba diving with qualified instructors.

Furthermore, a powerboat zone outside the Marine Park to the south of the Island allows for water skiing, jet-skiing, wake-boarding and tubing. Big game fishing on a 28-foot reef runner cat off Mafia Island is another available activity.

Thanda Island seeks to mirror the conservation and community upliftment successes that Thanda Safari has achieved in South Africa by partnering with the Tanzanian Marine Parks and the leading NGO, Sea Sense, on a range of marine conservation and education programmes in the region. 

Thanda Island comprisies of an expansive five-bedroom villa featuring an impressive glass rim-flow swimming pool.

 A huge indoor aquarium to rival its outdoor counterpart, it combines casual beach-house living with outdoor ocean adventures.

Depending on the season, guests can watch turtles nesting and their eggs hatching. Five species of marine turtles occur in Tanzania’s waters, two of which – green and hawksbill, categorised as endangered by the IUCN – have recently returned to nest on the Island. Guests will also be able to learn about the local Swahili sea-faring culture on nearby Mafia Island and picnic on a neighbouring atoll.

Furthermore, Thanda Island seeks to mirror the conservation and community upliftment successes that Thanda Safari has achieved in South Africa by partnering with the Tanzanian Marine Parks and the leading NGO, Sea Sense, on a range of marine conservation and education programmes in the region. These include research and conservation projects on the sea turtles, dugongs, dolphins, whale sharks, coral reefs and marine reserves.

Adding to this, the team is participating in a range of social upliftment programmes on Mafia Island, which has approximately 60,000 people in the communities. This will be in the form of a commitment to the education of young people in sustainable resource utilisation, fish harvesting, marine conservation, and in the development of healthy, sporting activities, such as football.

Thanda Island is 16 nautical miles or 30km east of the mainland of Tanzania, opposite the Selous National Park and Rufiji River Delta. It is accessible by boat from Mafia Island or helicopter directly from Dar es Salaam International Airport.

Thanda Island offers beautiful, warm, tropical weather. The rainy seasons comprise the “long” rains in late April to May and the “short” rains in November. Rain showers are mostly short, followed by sunshine, bringing a wonderful renewal and freshness to the environment. Thanda Island lies across the trade winds and experiences the northeast (Kaskazi) and southeast (Kusi) trade wind seasons. The Kaskazi usually starts at the end of November and lasts into February. The Kusi is from early July through to mid-September.

This article was written by KIRSTIE NEIMAN

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Born in Zimbabwe and living in South Africa, Miriro is a seasoned publishing editor and writer, having worked with leading brands in investment, business leadership and entrepreneurship. Passionate about Africa’s development, Miriro is also a dynamic marketing consultant with 10 years experience working with startups and large multinational corporations. With a heart for travel, Miriro spends her time discovering the nooks of crannies of Africa’s hidden gems, taking the roads less travelled, meeting the beautiful people and enjoying their food and culture. She enjoys tackling complex strategic challenges in the passion-to-entrepreneurship pipeline, particularly focused on the implications of 4th Industrial Revolution and workforce automation on Africa's travel and tourism industry.

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