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Aiyana Beach Resort, Tanzania review: stripped-back luxury at its finest

Aiyana Beach Resort, Tanzania review: stripped-back luxury at its finest

It's the diametric opposite of a Swiss clinic — hot, unsophisticated, vaguely dangerous (you climb a rickety ladder over a small crab-infested cliff to get up on the rock). Like many of Pemba's delights, the spa is not refined or high-tech. But there is something all the more relaxing for that, capturing of a pre- 2005 innocence- flowers floating in a Babyliss footbath; the smell of tiger balm; an almost oriental serenity created by the white-washed buildings and dragonflies dipping in and out of lily-padded ponds. Scattered bougainvillea and the odd towel swan. There is a sense that the world has not changed here for decades.
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