{"id":89096,"date":"2024-11-09T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diwakasafaris.com\/mafia-island\/"},"modified":"2024-11-09T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:17:03","slug":"mafia-island","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/diwakasafaris.com\/en-ca\/islands\/mafia-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Mafia Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"89096\" class=\"elementor elementor-89096\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ec2adee e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ec2adee\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6cb27ac e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6cb27ac\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a52d4b4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a52d4b4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1>Mafia Island<\/h1><p>Mafia Island is a popular destination for visitors to relax after their safari and the island&#8217;s relaxed and secluded beaches offer privacy and comfort for discerning travellers.<\/p><p>Mafia&#8217;s incredible and unspoilt dive sites have remained a well-kept secret of diving aficionados and beach recluses for years, but now the island is fast becoming a preferred destination. For centuries, the island was a trading stop for Shirazi merchants travelling up towards Persia and under the rule of the Omani sultanate in Zanzibar, vast coconut and cashew plantations flourished.<\/p><p>Today, all that remain of the island&#8217;s prestigious past are the coral ruins on Chole Mjini, the small island just off Hore from Mafia where the Arab landowners lived a sumptuous life removed from their plantations and slaves. These days, Mafia&#8217;s remote location means it receives only the most selective visitors, but things are changing. The recent gazetting of Mafia Island Marine Park &#8211; the largest protected area in the Indian Ocean &#8211; to include surrounding villages in its conservation efforts means that the millions of fish and coral species that thrive in the warm waters of Mafia&#8217;s beaches will survive for decades to come.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mafia Island Mafia Island is a popular destination for visitors to relax after their safari and the island&#8217;s relaxed and secluded beaches offer privacy and comfort for discerning travellers. Mafia&#8217;s incredible and unspoilt dive sites have remained a well-kept secret of diving aficionados and beach recluses for years, but now the island is fast becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71130,"parent":89197,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-89096","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diwakasafaris.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diwakasafaris.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diwakasafaris.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diwakasafaris.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diwakasafaris.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diwakasafaris.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89096\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diwakasafaris.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diwakasafaris.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diwakasafaris.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}