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Lindi Culture and Beach Holiday

Lindi is Its small dhow port bustles with local coastal traffic, a smattering of carved doorways and crumbling ruins line the dusty streets, and a Hindu temple and Indian merchants serve as a reminder of once-prosperous trade routes to the east.
Salt production is the main local industry, announced by the salt flats lining the road into town. There’s also a sisal plantation in Kikwetu, near the airfield. The coral reef from south of Lindi to Sudi Bay hosts abundant marine life, and the site has been proposed as a possible protected marine area.
Philip Adventure and Safari Company will organize your trip to Lindi.
The old, historical part of town is the section along the waterfront, though you’ll have to hunt for the few still-standing remnants of the town’s more glorious past. Watch for the remains of the old German boma, ruins of an Arab tower and the occasional carved doorway. The small Dhow Port on palm-fringed Lindi Bay is lively, colourful, and worth a stroll.

From some of the hills on the edge of town there are good views over large stands of palm trees and Lindi Bay, and across the Lukeludi River to Kitunda Peninsula – ask locals to point you in the direction of Mtanda, Wailes (‘Wire-less’) or Mtuleni neighbourhoods. On Kitunda itself, which was formerly a sisal estate, there’s nothing much now other than a sleepy village, but it’s a pleasant destination for walking and offers a glimpse of local life. A good beach is at the end of the peninsula behind the hill (hire a local boat to get there).

About 6km north of town off the airfield road is Mtema Beach, which is usually empty except for weekends and holidays.

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