Vamizi Island Lodge
Vamizi Island Lodge is situated on the northern side of Maluane Island looking towards Rongui from the end of a long powder-sand beach. The emphasis of Vamizi Island Lodge is on space and openness, with large rooms and high ceilings and has been designed to complement the environment and to cause as little damage to it as possible. The construction uses almost entirely local materials - timber, thatch and stone all come from the mainland or the islands themselves - thus providing help to the local economy.
The lodge itself offers ten thatched beach houses, each with its own large living room, bathroom and breezy veranda, are all secluded from each other and look out to sea from the shade of the forest that forms the centre of the island. Samango monkeys play in the trees and prowl the glades, hunting the land crabs that live there. The bathrooms have a solid slab of marble forming the wall of the shower, and hand-carved screens, which provide the privacy, and aesthetic detail of a Zanzibar palace. The bedrooms have king-size four-poster beds with freestanding frames draped in beautiful natural muslin mosquito nets. The Vamizi Island Lodge's private lounges lead off from the bedrooms like giant verandas, with deep cane couches and colonial-style planter's chairs for relaxing in.
Marine activities include world-class blue water fishing and fly fishing, as well as scuba diving and snorkelling in some of the most pristine coral reefs of the Indian Ocean.
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