Crusoe invented castaway chic, but Vamizi Island Lodge defines it, with thirteen impossibly romantic timber villas strung loosely along one of the world’s most beautiful beaches.

Simply grand, or grandly simple - this lodge isn’t about the usual five star luxury and all mod cons, it’s about the more rarified pleasures of exclusive island life.

Imagine wafting through muslin and filtered sunlight, flopping straight from your room into a private ocean, enjoying elegant lunches with your toes in the sand…

It’s hard to compete with the perfect desert island so, we don’t. We just take what comes on the breeze, and mould it into a more civilized form.

First and foremost, Vamizi Island is a conservation project. It is directed by the Maluane Project and supported by a group of idealists, to make a dream come true and have tourism work for the planet.

Over a decade ago, the original visionaries of the project visited the Quirimbas Archipelago, where Vamizi Island lies.

Vamizi Island and neighbouring Rongui Island are set either side of an ocean basin that is extraordinary - with its vast fish stocks, abundant marine life; whales, dolphin and turtle populations.

They believed this undeveloped - and unprotected - area to be of huge natural significance as a marine nursery and sanctuary for the whole Mozambican coast.

Thus the Maluane Project began, combining tourism with wildlife conservation and community development to protect this unspoilt area.

In 2005, the 24-bed Vamizi Island Lodge was opened.

To succour the world’s most demanding clientele on such an island, given the lack of infrastructure and remoteness, was madness. Only a wild determination to preserve Vamizi and its seas would be enough to make it happen.

Through continued donations and a conservation fee charged to every guest, the Maluane Project continues to support marine research, community outreach and direct conservation initiatives.

It’s just a small drop in the ocean, but an altogether bigger thing, we hope, for eco-tourism.

RESERVATIONS
A written request is necessary to process a reservation. This can be sent by email to reservations@vamizi.com.
Written confirmation of the reservation will be forwarded by email.
To secure a reservation, a 30% deposit is required within 2 weeks of confirmation.
Once the reservation is confirmed, the client will be liable for any cancellation fees.
CANCELLATION
Confirmed reservation cancelled 60 + days prior to arrival– full deposit is forfeited.
Between 30 to 60 days prior to arrival– 50% of the full cost is payable
Less than 30 days prior to arrival, 100% of the full cost is payable.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
We reserve the right to alter or amend accommodation rates and the rate periods at our discretion.
We reserve the right to release confirmed accommodation bookings 4 weeks prior to arrival, if full
payment has not been received.
We reserve the right to amend the cost of the any island activities, subject to an increase in the
cost of fuel or any changes in Government taxes.