Dive Review of Mafia Island Diving/Kivulini Lodge in
Africa/Mafia Island, Tanzania

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Mafia Island Diving/Kivulini Lodge: "Still rustic and charming and tons of critters!", Jan, 2023, by Faye Wilde , Purley, GB ( Sr. Reviewer 9 reports with 5 Helpful votes). Report 12621.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	Mafia is a gorgeous island with its rustic charm away from it all. Diving is by shore or traditional wooden boats and there are reefs with plenty of life and loads of the smaller stuff on the shore dive right outside the dive centre- frogfish, nudibranch, octopus, cuttlefish to name but a few. The real beauty of this place is that due to its remote location it is not over populated with tourists and so not many divers and reefs all to yourselves! Accommodation is via lodges and transfers to and from the dive centre are easy. The food was fresh and delicious. You can venture out on island and village tours and in season even take a trip to snorkel with whalesharks. This was a very relaxed trip away from it all and I would love to return one day.
Websites	Mafia Island Diving Kivulini Lodge
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Several Red Sea trips, Tobago, Lanzarote, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Mozambique, Thailand, Maldives, Madeira, Menorca, Malta, Gozo, Turkey, Iceland, Azores, Cape Verde, St Lucia, Cyprus, Corfu, Indonesia, Tanzania and frequently in the UK where I am based.
Closest Airport	Mafia via Dar es Salaam	Getting There	By tiny local plane from main international airports like Dar es Salaam or via Zanzibar
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, rainy, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm, choppy, surge
Water Temp	25-29°C / 77-84°F	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	10-20 M / 33-66 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	Conservative profiles due to remote location
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	1 or 2
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish	N/A
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Mafia Island Diving/Kivulini Lodge in Africa/Mafia Island, Tanzania

Mafia Island Diving/Kivulini Lodge: "Still rustic and charming and tons of critters!", Jan, 2023,

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Dive Review of Mafia Island Diving/Kivulini Lodge in
Africa/Mafia Island, Tanzania