About 80 kilometres north-east of Zanzibar, Pemba Island is quiet and underdeveloped. It has a gentle hilly landscape, dense vegetation, and lots of farming and fishing villages. Cloves are a major export and you will often see great swathes of them drying in the sun.
The incredible depths of the Pemba Channel, which shelf off to depths of more than 2,000 metres between the island and mainland, make the island one of the premier blue water fishing destinations in the Indian Ocean and the obvious choice for the big game fishing enthusiast.
Pemba Island is also a paradise for experienced divers who will discover that the waters around Pemba provide some of the most fantastic wall and drift dives, fine soft and hard coral formations, and open water diving opportunities that this East African coastline has to offer.
The local people have had very little impact on the coast and as a result the coral reefs that surround Pemba are in pristine condition.