Anantara Bazaruto Resort & Spa

The five-star resort on Bazaruto Island just off the coast of Mozambique, Southern Africa. The resort offers visitors the perfect location from where some of the world's best fishing and diving.

The resort's exclusive facilities include outdoor swimming pools, restaurants, bars and a specialist diving pool. The activity centre can arrange water sports, as well as fishing and diving.

Anantara Bazaruto Island Resort Bay View Villas and Beach Chalets at this tropical resort in Mozambique’s were designed and built with the use of natural materials. These include thatch, reed and local hardwoods to blend in well with the beautiful natural surroundings.

Comfortably furnished the villas and provide en-suite bathrooms, air-conditioning, mosquito screens, mini-bars, satellite TV as well as telephones. Shared or separate verandah’s and inter-leading villas and chalets are available at the resort for families.

Room types:

29 Beach Chalets
1 Beach Honeymoon Chalet
12 Luxury Bay View Villas
1 Executive Suite
1 Presidential Villa.

Facilities

The resort offers restaurants, the bars, and the activity centre, where fishing, snorkelling, diving as well as water-skiing. While the dive-training swimming pool is for diving lessons, the various swimming pools offer a great respite from the warm African sun. The highly acclaimed Sanctuary Spa provides pampering spa treatments.

Restaurants and bars
Swimming pool
Activity centre
Dive training pool
Beach snack bar
Business centre
Sanctuary Spa

The spa offers an extensive list of relaxing treatments available to guests during their stay. At 1300 Sqm, the large Sanctuary Spa features five treatment rooms; a hydrotherapy pool; an ice pool; a wet room and a Rasul Chamber. With the health bar and relaxation areas, this completes an unforgettable spa experience. Spa treatments include Swedish massages, reflexology, body brushes, milk baths and facials as well as body wraps.

Scuba diving on the Island

The island is one of Africa's most popular scuba diving locations being the largest of the Mozambican archipelago islands, where divers have the opportunity to admire over thousands of tropical fish species. Over 100 species of coral, different whales and sharks, various kinds of dolphins, the five sea turtle species as well as the largest population of rare dugong that inhabit the east coast of Africa make this a must-visit locale.

Forming part of the Bazaruto Archipelago, the island is the most substantial at a length of 37km and width of 7km, offering towering sand dunes, long tracks of white sand beaches as well as freshwater lakes, surrounded by the azure blue of the Indian Ocean.

A wonderland of local flora and fauna without distractions the site was declared part of the Bazaruto Archipelago National Park, the conservation of the environment adjacent to the Anantara Bazaruto Island Resort & Spa is crucial to this region of Mozambique.

Access

You can take a scheduled flights from OR Tambo Johannesburg International Airport in South Africa, Nelspruit KMIA, Maputo and Beira, to Vilanculos in Mozambique. Federal Air flies to Vilanculos from the OR Tambo Johannesburg International Airport daily while LAM - Mozambique Airlines fly to Vilanculos from OR Tambo Johannesburg International Airport, via Maputo.

The flying time to the resort from Vilanculos Airport, Mozambique, is only about 15 minutes. When arriving in Vilanculos, guests are assisted with clearing customs and immigration before boarding the air shuttle that is operated by CFA Air Charters.