Many young couples have a tropical honeymoon vacation, and some take an African Safari Honeymoon to Tanzania or Kenya, and then urgently seek a peaceful quiet escape for the last few days, and this is where an Indian Ocean Island in the Mafia Archipelago off Tanzania called Chole comes in.

There are few better places to finally end up in than Chole Mijini Lodge which is the epitome of a romantic honeymoon getaway. This is never more true if you are very conscious of the damage that new holiday developments can do to the local environment or population, because Chole Mijini Lodge has developed with the best principles of eco tourism and benefiting local communities.

Chole Mijini Lodge is on a tiny fertile island called Chole, some twenty minutes sail from Mafia. It has been set up as a partnership with the owners Jean and Anne de Villiers and the people of Chole Village. In fact $10 per night per guest goes to resource community development projects, and this is working extremely well.

Pole Pole Resort is the perfect Romantic Getaway, the ideal place for a romantic honeymoon package on Mafia Island off the coast of Tanzania.

Mafia is a remote small wooded island accessible only by plane, best from Dar es Salaam, or Zanzibar or other parts of Tanzania via Dar.

There are flights every day, but be warned the aircraft is small, perhaps only 16 seats and it isn’t for the faint hearted. After landing on a grass airstrip on Mafia it is still a further hour by jeep.

Pole Pole as a vacation destination which is off the beaten track immediately means that only like minded souls tend to go there, plus a good sprinkling of honeymoon couples post safari, because it really is a romantic honeymoon getaway more than anything else.

Pole Pole in Swahili means literally ‘take it easy’ and that is exactly what you will do when you are here. In East Africa you get used to noise and bustle, hassle and delays, children begging for money.

Lazy Lagoon is a small private island offshore from a village called Bagamovo which is  70km north of Dar es Salaam, and is the perfect place to unwind for a few days after a safari. Lazy Lagoon is run by Alex and Janie Fox, who are members of an old Tanzanian expat family, and there is very little they don’t know about Tanzania, and East Africa generally.

Lagoon Island has a claim to be the most exclusive beach resort in Tanzania, and consists of………..

Ras Kutani sits on a white sand beach in Tanzania on the Indian Ocean some 35 kilometres south of Dar es Salaam, and it offers the visitor some things that have been gone for a long time in many other parts of the world.

Long stretches of unspoiled deserted beaches, beautiful turquoise blue green sea, and total peace and tranquillity.  In other words a world of peace and quiet, far from the madding crowd, and yet understated luxury and comfort.