Shimoni  Reef lodge  is a  comfortable Swahili style rustic retreat  at the southern tip of Kenya, bordering Tanzania, and surrounded with islands and a magnificent marine reserve.

The lodge offers spacious  cottages in a mature shady garden, with a pool, restaurant, bar and ocean verandah overlooking the Indian ocean , wasini island,  and Usambari Mountains in Tanzania  on the mainland.Cottages  can be booked  individually or guests can secure the  lodge privately for  groups We are small enough to be very intimate, yet large enough to offer most hotel services. Alongside the excellent marine services available in shimoni for snorkeling, fishing  and diving, the lodge offers its own private boats for exclusive hire.

The marine park of Kisite Mpungiti is considered to be  the best diving and snorkeling location in eastern Africa, and the numerous resident  dolphins offer a unique chance to swim and snorkel safety with wild dolphins. The lodge itself is situated at the edge of Shimoni Village, on the water front far from the mass tourism beaches of Kenya’s south and north coast.

Shimoni Reef was originally formed as a outpost base for One Earth Safaris, the first company to really explore open ocean sea safaris, diving in the pemba channel  and exploring  the reefs  beyond the shallow fringing edges of Kenyas near shore reefs.Since then hundreds of guests have experienced the blue water experiences of diving around shimoni, and the pemba channel, snorkeling the islands off shimoni, swimming with dolphins, walking on sand bars in the middle of the ocean,  and generally having the chance to experience  a wild and beautiful ocean reserve protected from mass  development.

Shimoni Reef is famous for its personalized  a la carte menu , where you can discuss your preferences directly with the cooks, exclusive use of boats to visit the islands and marine parks, and privacy of the cottages.

With amazing views all day of sailing boats, birds, monkeys and a constant monsoon breeze, you can enjoy shimoni as a retreat as well as the best marine base in eastern Africa to explore the ocean.