Looking for a unique place to stay when you visit Africa? You might want to try a new underwater room at a near Tanzania. The underwater room at Manta Resort ison remote Pemba Island in Tanzania’s Zanzibar Archipelago. The room immerses guests 4 meters below the surface and sits on the bottom of a three-level floating structure, located off the shore in the Indian Ocean, reports Lindsey Galloway for BBC.
“Above and below each of the room’s eight windows, spotlights illuminate the sea life that swims by. Frequent visitors include a trumpet fish known as Nick, as well as squid and octopus at night. Above the underwater space, guests can climb a ladder to the water level, which contains a bathroom and lounge, or ascend to the rooftop to soak up the sun or lay beneath the stars,” reports the BBC.
It was designed by Swedish artist Mikael Genberg, who also constructed the structurally similar Utter Inn in Sweden’s Lake Malaren. He sought a more remote location with clearer waters for this prpject and found just the place off Pemba’s coast in the form of “the blue hole,” a circular clearing within the coral reef. The open space was the ideal location to anchor the new underwater structure.
