The 7 Best Things to Do in Sodwana, South Africa

Amoray Diving is an established scuba diving service located in beautiful Sodwana Bay, South Africa. We are always glad to see old faces and new, and would love to personally share with you the spectacular world beneath the waves.

We strive to be the best! We scuba dive for the love of diving to learn more about our marine environment and the secrets it holds. Discovering more with each dive. At the same time sharing our knowledge with our clients about this complex ecosystem. Scuba Diving, We offer you over 30 different dive sites. Of which 2mile, 3mile, 5mile, 6mile, 7mile, 8mile and 9mile forms our spectacular reef. We offer Dive Packages, Scuba Courses and Accommodation. Try Scuba Diving, Open Water Diver, Advanced Adventurer and many more Specialty Dive Courses to choose from.

We are a professional, friendly, owner-run dive company that has been operating in Sodwana Bay for nearly 2 decades. Our emphasis is on fun and enjoyment whilst the strictest safety standards are adhered to. We offer everything from Snorkelling to Scuba Diving, Dive Courses, Handicapped Diving, Surf Safaris, Team Building and Internship Programmes.

Pisces Dive Charter is an owner operated dive school and charter operating full-time in Sodwana Bay since 1994 but both Louis and Melanie have lived and dived in Sodwana Bay since the 1980’s. Due to the charter being owner managed and run (from picking you up in the beach parking area and running the beach operation to escorting you on your dives), professional service of highest quality is guaranteed with safety as our most important priority. Louis, Melanie and their team are passionate about the ocean and the area and our aim is that each client departs for home after a visit having learnt something new about our ocean and the wonders within it as well as a love for the area we operate in – where else in the world can you dive in the morning and see the Big 5 or view some amazing Lake systems in the afternoon? We cater for all levels of divers ranging from novices, dive schools, family groups, technical divers and photographers to the discerning casual diver. Our boat, IMPI is specially modified and offers superb comfort and space for technical and photographic groups. We offer full-time courses (NAUI/PADI), scuba-diving excursions for all levels and gear hire. Sodwana Bay is situated in Zululand, the place of the people of the heavens. Situated on the east coast of Southern Africa, it forms the northern portion of KwaZulu-Natal, one of the nine provinces of South Africa. This stretch of the African continent is a land of diversely exquisite beauty. Sodwana Bay is a mere hour’s drive away from the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve, Thembe Elephant Park, Ndumo Game Reserve and Kosi Bay. The coastline stretches some three hundred and fifty kilometres from the mouth of the mighty Tugela River in the south to the Mozambique border in the north. The golden eastern shores are caressed by the warm waters of the Indian Ocean and include endless unspoilt Beaches and coastal conservation areas, and incorporate the largest estuarine system in Southern Africa. Sodwana Bay is incorporated in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, which is South Africa’s third largest park. The rich resource endowment of the IWP was recognized when the St Lucia Wetlands became South Africa’s first inscription on the World Heritage List. We offer: • Introductory Scuba Diving Courses • Full-time Scuba Diving Courses • Scuba Diving Charters for novice & experienced individuals and/or groups • Qualified Divemasters on each dive • Airfills & Gear hire • Boat based snorkel excursions or boat rides There is also a range of other activities available such as: • Deep-Sea Fishing Charters • Kite-Surfing • Microlight Flights • Quad Bike rides • Turtle Tours (In-season) • Whale-watching with the only registered operator (In-season) Pisces Diving offers a range of self-catering accommodation in and around Sodwana Bay ranging from tented accommodation in a well appointed camp to luxury accommodation.

Reefteach has been a dive charter in Sodwana Bay since 2000. Our main focus is marine education for all divers and customer service. We have the biggest boats in Sodwana Bay and our skippers have been with us for over 15 years. We have unlimited dive times (except on long-weekends when divetime is limited to 60 minutes). All our instructors and divemaster have an intimate knowledge of the fishes as well as other marine life. All of our dives have full marine briefings before the dive with a library of books on the beach to look for whatever you saw on your dive. We transport your dive gear to and from the beach and wash it and hang it up overnight to dry.

We here at Offroad Adventures do guided tours on 4 wheeler quad bikes and 4X4 UTV (Rhinos) with our clients, allowing them the time to enjoy their sorroundings rather just a quick quad trip "there and back" . Our guide, Johnny Pretorius, has allot of local knowledge about the area and we offer people the opportunity to experience a part of Sodwana that they would not be able to without a quad bike or 4X4, and learn about things they would not be able to without the help of a knowledgeable local. Part of your tour is that JP will explain a little about the area that you are driving through, stop to show you interesting fauna or flora, let you taste the monkey apples, show you the weaver ants nests, offer lots of photo ops and so forth. We offer three different tours. a 1 hour tour, 2 hour tour and a +- 55KM round trip to the beautiful Lake Sibaya. Our Sibaya trip is a 3-4 hour trip that takes you through the pine Forests and local dirt roads to Lake Sibaya, we also offer a 'boat lunch' that we get from The Ma Shop at an extra R60.00 pp, that you will eat in a nice, pretty, shady spot. The trip back is riding through the natural forest, ducking under tunnels of branches and undergrowth that have been made in the natural plant growth and then back through 'Tolle se Gat'. We also have a 1 or 2 hour tour that will take you through the pine Forests and back past the natural bush, also home through 'Tolle se Gat'. They are both very similar just more to see and a longer tour (obviously) on the 2 hour tour.

We are a recognised scuba diving and snorkelling operator also offering Scuba Diving courses for beginners plus refresher courses. Our emphasis is on safety coupled with enjoyment. Accommodation at our Toad Tree Cabins is available and ranges from wooden en-suite cabins to fully equipped, self catering cottages. We also have a shared entertainment area with braai facilities and a splash pool.