Pemba

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Zanzibar consists of two islands: Pemba and Unguja. Living on the main island Unguja, it is almost compulsory to visit it´s little sister 50 kilometers away.

We started 1^st of May weekend Pemba´s capital Chake Chake. This is a small, clean and hilly town with only a few restaurants (if they qualify as restaurants), three-four hotels and a marketplace. We walked around and had lunch there before we headed out to Misali beach 10 kilometers away, where we stayed for two days.

After a relaxing day at the resort Friday evening, we took a daytrip to Misali Island on Saturday morning. It felt like we were the only tourists there, and we probably were! The island is only 1,2 kilometers long and has fantastic beaches, where you really get the Robinsoe Crusoe feeling. The water is shallow and crystal clear. And the Turtle beach is the most beautiful place we’ve ever seen. No wonder the turtles choose this beach to lay their eggs.

We were swimming, snorkeling and we walked around the forest in the middle of the island before heading back to Pemba.

Last day on Pemba we visited the Flying Fox center, where around 5000 enormous bats are spending days hanging in trees. Some of them are really huge; they can have a wingspan up to 1.5 meter.

Pemba is green, hilly and cleaner than Unguja. The small Island is a must-visit destination and it would be great to come back and see other areas of the island one day.