Pieter’s Place

Pemba


Built around a huge, ancient baobab tree (into which you can climb and have breakfast in an improvised treehouse), Pieter's Place has an amiable African-backpackers feel to it. It's also diving central, thanks to the on-site CI Divers. Building work was being completed on some new rooms in late 2016; all will have private bathroom, mosquito nets and coffee-making tray.


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2. Cemetery

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3. Lookout

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5. Fish Market

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