Dear Guests,

Welcome to Pemba and the Swahili Divers website. We live on a beautiful green, forested, rag-coral paradise in the Indian Ocean . We invite you to peruse our site and see whether we can tempt you into making the journey down to Tanzania .  This website has been carefully put together to give you as true a picture of our Island as possible. While we may have crystal clear waters and four endemic species of birds, we are also located in one of the poorest nations on earth. We are not a luxury beach resort with designer bed sheets and super fast speed boats. We are an environmentally friendly eco-lodge, well entrenched in the local community with an excellent dive centre. Our dive guides are highly professional and know more about the underwater side of Pemba than anyone in the world. We dive all of Pemba , and we do it safely, no mean feat we can assure you.

We don’t know if this is your fifth trip to Pemba or yif ou saved for five years to come here. Our aim is that you leave our Hotel and Dive Centre happy and wanting to come back. We have activities and services to suit all budgets.  

We make one promise to you. “All of us at Swahili Divers will do everything that we can to make your stay a memorable one.”

Welcome once again to Pemba , and welcome to our world.

Happy diving  

Raf and Cisca Jah

Owner/Instructor/Dishwasher/anthropologist

(come over to work out who’s who)