Azura Quilalea Private Island

Azura Quilalea sits regally on an uninhabited island paradise surrounded by the pristine waters of the Quirimbas Archipelago marine sanctuary. Azura along with its sister island, Sencar, lies within a protected marine reserve that offers excellent snorkelling and diving facilities. Quilalea is the ultimate private luxury hideaway that allows you to discover new places of unspoilt natural beauty while preserving the environment. In a unique partnership with the locals, the property has been developed as a seamless extension of the deserted beaches, pristine reefs and sparkling turquoise seas. Experience a lightness of being, as a happy kind of hospitality envelopes you in its warm and caring embrace. Award winning villas have been hand built by the local community. Island villas are just footsteps from the beach while the safari tented villas lie on the banks of the Great Ruaha River, where the hippo call by day and lions roam by night. The four Kaskazi villas are open-plan and spacious, with stylish décors of wood, cotton and materials such as rope, pebbles and rattan, all blending in ever so naturally with the island surroundings.

Pemba can be accessed from South Africa with flights from Johannesburg on Airlink and LAM; from Kenya with flights on LAM from Nairobi; from Tanzania with flights on LAM from Dar es Salaam and from other centres in Mozambique including Maputo, Beira and Nampula.

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