Offmap Experience
5 Countries · 18 Sites · 9 Safaris
Beach & Islands is one of the experiences around which Offmap Safaris can shape a private, tailor-made safari.
Use this page to explain what the experience is, what makes it special, where it can be done, how it works and what travellers should know before they go.
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Diani Beach, a short transfer from Mombasa’s airport, is the most straightforward add-on after a Kenya safari, with a reef-protected lagoon that stays calm for swimming most of the year.
Nungwi and Kendwa, at Zanzibar’s northern tip, stay swimmable through most tide states, unlike the island’s east coast, where the water recedes a long way at low tide.
Paje, on Zanzibar’s east coast, is the region’s main kitesurfing hub, its steady cross-shore wind and shallow tidal flats drawing kitesurfers from across the world.
Lamu combines its beaches with a UNESCO-listed Swahili old town reached only by boat or small plane, and the island itself has no cars, donkeys and dhows handling transport instead.
Roughly June to October and December to February are the driest, sunniest windows, avoiding the heavier daily downpours of the April-May long rains along the coast.
