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Mafia Island Archipelago
afia Island is set off wherever you walk you will be
the coast of central left alone; no one here to hustle
Tanzania, twenty and spoil the peace of your
kilometers from the Rufiji River holiday. Many people return to
Delta. This island is an ideal this island year after year
place to relax after a safari in because it is a treasure, because
the Selous Game Reserve. This is it remains off the well
quiet island offers diving and trodden tourist routs.
snorkeling, the whole island is
surrounded by an unbroken barrier The island is fifty kilometers
reef. The diving here is some of long and fifteen kilometers wide.
the best the world has to offer. The barrier reef that surrounds
Game fishing, forest walks, bird the island is teaming with marine
watching [with over 120 bird life. There are over 460 species
species here] and deserted of tropical fish in these reefs
beaches make Mafia a truly magic as well as five species of
place to visit. turtles. The coral gardens and
coral heads are spectacular and
Mafia is the largest island in with walls at various levels give
this archipelago, which is made the diver, either beginner or
up of many smaller islands atolls more experienced, a profusion of
and tidal sandbars. There are no underwater habitats to explore;
tar roads here and the whole PADI training is available in
island is locked in a time warp. some of the hotels.
If you desire to escape from the
madding crowd and relax away from The island has thriving tidal
the hectic world Mafia is your mangroves, palm wooded grassland
paradise. Mafia is the safest and lowland rainforest - with the
island in the whole Indian Ocean. huge Boabab also found here. The
The beaches are secure and Chunguruma Forest has a dense
canopy interlaced with palms, lizards.
with the floor of the forest
carpeted with ferns, there are The roads are quite bad on the
four endemic species of butterfly island and a 4 x 4 is needed to
here. The center of the island is drive around. The going is slow
dotted with a series of reed and it can take half an hour to
lined lakes, which are home to a travel 30 kilometers. Many of the
number of small hippopotami. locals travel by boat to move
These lakes are thought to have around the island. There are
once been lagoons that became regular scheduled flights to the
land locked thousands of years island by light aircraft, from
ago. The island has a colony of Dar es Salaam or the nearby
flying foxes, bushbabies, Selous.
monkeys, squirrels and monitor
About the Author:
For more information about Mafia Island or the Tanzania see http://betheladventure.co.uk/zanzibar_mafia.htm using tourism to fund community initiatives focused on the education of the young and the medical care for the whole family. Ensure your safari is using profits to help the community.
Source: www.isnare.com
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