Dive trip Mohéli

Stay, Diving holidays in the Comoros, in Mohéli

Want to go somewhere else? Get ready for a diving holiday in Mohéli, the smallest of the four islands of the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean, which also includes Grande Comore, Anjouan, and Mayotte.
Moheli is so small that you can drive around it in less than half a day.
Nevertheless, it has a very rich natural heritage and you can spend a week without getting bored!
You pass through about twenty villages, and some villagers offer bungalows for rent, allowing you to spend one night in each village.
Of course, the capital of Moheli, Fomboni, is the town with the largest number of hotels and pensions.
The inhabitants of the island live from spice growing, cattle breeding and fishing.
In July and August, big weddings take place and you will certainly be invited if you make friends with the locals.
Some celebrations require up to 3 years of preparation and can last up to a week.
You will attend the women's drumstick dance and the beef tam-tam with the men who challenge an ox to dance.
The meals offered are rather based on grilled chicken, goat's cheese, rice, and cooked plantain bananas.

Mohéli is the wildest and least developed of the Comoros islands.
It also has a lagoon outline and beautiful beaches, as well as 13 islets that dot it.
There are about 20 dive sites in Moheli, most of which are in the marine reserve and have beautiful drop-offs, caves, and coral gardens.
Explore them by scuba diving or snorkeling among reef fish such as parrotfish, angelfish, trumpet fish, and butterflyfish.
You will be amazed at the number of green and hawksbill turtles that live in Comoro waters.
Expect beautiful encounters in Moheli whether on the surface or on the bottom, with manta rays (manta alfredi), bottlenose dolphins, coral sharks, blacktip sharks, electro dolphins, pilot whales and dugong, pantropical dolphins. Seasonal passages of humpback whales are to be expected.

Marine species in the area

Dive sites

The Archipelago of Comores is located in the Indian Ocean, off the coasts of Africa, North of Mozambique, between Madagascar and the coast of Mozambique. Mohéli is the smallest island of the archipelago.
A scuba diving trip to Mohéli in the Comores gives you a taste of liberty. You will find magnificent sandy beaches where green turtles mate.
Mohéli has a luscious vegetation and a beautiful primitive forest that is shelter to an abundant endemic fauna. A 400 m2 marine park was created in the South to protect natural resources, and offers 20 dive sites.
A scuba diving trip to Mohéli enables you to see more of the local fauna in the marine park.
The humpback whales come to Mohéli to give birth in August in warm waters and remain there with their calves until October to carry on their long migration.The green turles and hawksbill turtle live in Mohéli all the year. Their number increases between July and August. They are seen laying eggs on the beach, near grass beds. The eggs hatch and the juveniles return to the sea. Manta rays are seen between June and July.
Sea Cows live in the mangroves along the coast.Dolphins play in the waves behind the boats. They are found all year round near the islands. The presence of sharks does not depend on the season. You will find reef sharks, bull sharks, hammerhead sharks and tiger sharks in the waters of the Comores islands.
Several dive sites border the coast such as Banc Vailheu, a deep coral shoal that host pelagic fish, the Massiwa wreck, a 80m long cargo located north of the island.
Very rarely, coelacanths from the depths are seen at the surface around the islands of Comores, especially around Grande Comore and Anjouan.
The best time to go scuba diving is between July and November. Visibility of 30 to 40m. The water temperature varies from 25 to 28 all year round.