The Mnemba Island Snorkeling trip

Our most popular trip

Explore Mnemba Island with us. Enjoy a full day boat trip on a beautifully decorated traditional and comfortable dhow.

🐬 High chance to spot dolphins
🌊☀️ Spend the day swimming on a sandbank/Blue lagoon 🫧
🦞🐟 Delicious seafood lunch and fresh fruits onboard
🤿 Snorkeling in the Mnemba atoll reef
⛵ Sailing back to sunset

All details and prices HERE!

Sandbank with lunch

Spend the day on a beautiful sandbank

Spend the day on a beautiful sandbank. We don’t choose the famous Nakupenda sandbank because of it’s extremly high amount of tourist. We go to another more quiet sandbank a little bit further away, with much less tourists. But as beautiful as Nakupenda. We call it Nakupenda bis.

🌊☀️🫧 Spend the day swimming on a sandbank
🦞🐟 Delicious seafood lunch and fresh fruits
🤿 Possible to stop by a small reef for snorkeling

All details and prices HERE!

Read more HERE about our other boat trips! 𓂃 𓈒𓏸‪‪

Wild Safari

Experience a real african safari (1 or 2 days)

Have you always dreamed about going on a real safari? To spot all the wild african animals in their natural habit? Then this trip is for you!

🍱 Lunch in the park
🛩 Flight to/from ZNZ
🚕 Taxi from hotel to airport and back
🐾 Guide in the park

✧˖° All details and prices HERE!

Explore the Island

Private guided tour around the island

Do you want to explore the island Zanzibar with a private knowledge guide?

There is a lot to explore on the island. From history and culture in Stone Town to the wild monkeys and mangroves in the forest. Learn about the spices in spice farm, swim in a hidden water cave and visit the masai culture center.

🎟️ All entrence fees
🍉🍍🍌🥭 Fruits, water, soft drinks
🚕 Private taxi and guide all day

✧˖° All details and prices HERE!

Why choose us?

Animal friendly

We care about the animals and environment. We Don’t chase the dolphins, we make sure we don’t throw any anchor on the corals and we never take up any animal from the ocean.

Quality

We make sure our dhows always have the best quality to make sure your trip is as comfortable as possible.

Experience

All our staff has many years of experience. All of them has been working as sailors, guides and/or divers long time before they joined us.

     Excellent  
     Based on 158 reviews 
    
 
 
   
 
 
        
   Nadine C 
 2025-03-20
 
 
 Verified Dream day
A perfect day that we can only recommend... the boat is authentic very nice and beautiful... the commander and skipper were very careful to satisfy us as much as possible... we were even accompanied during snorkling . ... the meal was delicious . And I appreciated that the commander respected dolphins... all this ends in apotheosis with a return under sail...If I come back to zanzibar I will definitely go back.... And I recommend +++
  
 
       
   Emma R 
 2025-03-15
 
 
 Verified Incredible experience
Our favorite day in Zanzibar was definitely the trip to Mnemba Island. Absolutely amazing what an experience it was to get out to the places around this island. Never seen anything like this and I don't think anyone could have made our day better than Dream Dhow! Thank you so much for everything and Julia was a rock to deal with! The whole team on the boat was also very confident and trusting. The food was great and the boat was super! Sailing back was an experience, to say the least.
  
 
       
   Sabina I 
 2025-03-14
 
 
 Verified Stone Town, Prison Island, Nakupenda sandbank
Really happy with today's tour😃Private tour, Stonetown, Prison Island, lunch and swimming at Nakupenda sandbank.Good service from booking where Julia put together the excursion according to my wishes, even though I travel myself and live on the "wrong" side of the island, to guide and driver.The turtles and the sandbank was an experience 😍, Stone town was interesting and educational.
  
 
       
   Lena K 
 2025-03-12
 
 
 Verified Excellent
What a fantastic trip we had at sea. Like the best Saturday ever!We were picked up in a Tuk-Tuk at 0845. 10 minutes later we arrived in Kendwa where we jumped on our very own Dhow for the day. We had been recommended from another Swedish tourist about this company - Dream Dhow Zanzibar, and it turned out to be a good decision. Two guys were at our disposal all day, the captain & his assistant.On the way to Mnemba Island we saw about 15 dolphins near our boat. So cozy!Mnemba Island is a paradise that offered wonderful swimming and sand dunes. We stayed there for quite a while and were served a grilled Archipelago buffet. Wow, so delicious!The trip then continued to a reef for snorkeling. Many colorful fishes to see. One of "our" guys also went there and showed us where the best snorkeling was.At 5 o'clock they dropped us off at a beach in Nungwi as requested. The day we had was absolutely OUTSTANDING💛🌟💛
  
 
       
   Lotje M 
 2025-03-08
 
 
 Verified Really great and positive experience that I would 100% recommend to anyone who wants a special trip in Zanzibar
We had a really wonderful day with Dream Dhow Zanzibar! I booked a private dhow for me and my partner as a surprise for his birthday including balloons and a (very tasty!) birthday cake through WhatsApp, and it was a great experience from start to end! Absolutely worth the price, it was the best trip we had during our stay in Zanzibar. Communication during and beforehand was clear and friendly. The waters were extremely beautiful and the boat ride itself was very relaxing and pleasant. The crew knew exactly how to make sure the sailing went smoothly, and they were very nice to us and also open to our wishes - for example if we wanted to take another swim somewhere and watch the sunset at the end of the day that was no problem. The lunch was prepared on the boat and the cooking was great, fresh and delicious (the fish was amazing!). The snorkling part was fun as well, they had snorkling gear on board. They also took the effort to organize a special celebration for my partner’s birthday with singing and music on the boat, which was an extremely nice and fun touch to the day! We received snacks multiple times (fruit, nuts, etc) and cooled beverages were freely available. We definitely recommend going with Dream Dhow Zanzibar for a snorkling trip to Mnemba Island. The trip was fun, relaxed and it will be a special memory for us for sure!
  
 
       
   Hanna N 
 2025-03-07
 
 
 Verified Dreamdhow
So nice day trip . Very nice staf and good food 👍👍👍Calm water perfect for snorkling . And sandbank very beautiful Recommend
  
 
       
   Nicklas D 
 2025-03-02
 
 
 Verified Perfect day!
We booked a snorkling daytrip after we had encounterded their Facebook site. When you read that people are give such high praise you tend to be a bit hesitant. But I can tell you know that you dont have to. It was an amazing trip. 5 star and some add-ons. We spotted dolphins, a multitude of colorful fish (yes nemos too). But still the highlight was Yosef, Julia and the rest of the crew who made the day extraordinary in every way. The food (lobster, tuna, octopus) was cooked perfectly. The kept making sure you were fed at all time haha. Also, I might have mentioned that this trip was to frcelebrate my 50th birthday….in the middle of the Ocean a specially made cake showed up + a captain from another boat swam up to our boat to take lead in a swahili birthday song. Amazing. So grateful and I can truly recommend Dream Dhow.
  
 
       
   anders 
 2025-03-02
 
 
 Verified Magic
Great full day of snorkeling and grilled seafood. Julia was there all day and made our day the best of our whole vacation.
  
 
       
   emma s 
 2025-02-25
 
 
 Verified Nakupenda
10/10! Totally amazing in every way. Really appropriate the service that they offer, from transfer to guides. Food was delicious, couldn’t wish for a better trip! Recommend everyones!!
  
 
       
   Laura Y 
 2025-02-24
 
 
 Verified Sunset Cruise with cocktails and fantastic Snacks
If you’re going to Zanzibar, I highly recommend the DREAM DHOU sunset cruise OR their all day cruise complete with BBQ! Joshua and crew were terrific. we sailed around on their wooden “pirate” type boat, enjoyed cocktails and wonderful snacks. We swam in the Indian Ocean and laughed and sang and had the best time!