Welcome to Pemba and the Kervan Saray Beach website. We live on a beautiful green, forested, coral paradise in the Indian Ocean . We invite you to peruse our site and see whether we can tempt you into making the journey down to Tanzania . The Kervan Saray Beach is the palace of rest. The latest concept in Indian Ocean Island hospitality, born from the dive company Swahili Divers, the Kervan Saray draws upon over a decade of experience diving, anthropology and hospitality. While this hotel is the newest in Pemba, it houses the most experienced and long standing recognised dive centre in Pemba. If you want to dive in Pemba, then it has to be at The Kervan Saray. Yet we do not limit ourselves to diving. We welcome all of you who wish to come and see our Island. We invite you to come and relax with us. To recharge your batteries. To kayak, to cycle, to bird watch, to walk in the forest, to visit coastal Swahili villages and to do nothing if you so wish.

This website has been carefully put together to give you as true a picture of our Island as possible. While we may have crystal clear waters and four endemic species of birds, we are also located in one of the poorest nations on earth. This means that your visit here really counts. The money that you spend here goes largely into the local community. We are an environmentally friendly eco-lodge, well entrenched in the local community with an excellent dive centre. But more on that in other pages… Welcome once again to Pemba, and welcome to our fragile but quite stunning world.

Raf and Cisca Jah Managing director Dive Instructor/ Anthropologist /Diver