Welcome to Bela Vista Lodge
At Bela Vista Lodge, we aim to provide our guests not only with luxury, style and comfort, but also a complete feeling of home from home. When you walk into one of our spacious, open plan, exclusively designed houses, you'll feel like you never want to leave...

Located on the sand dunes overlooking beautiful Barra beach and lagoon in Inhambane Province, Mozambique, Bela Vista Lodge offers high quality accommodation, exquisite views and first class service in a beautiful setting.

The accommodation at Bela Vista Lodge currently consists of 4 luxury houses, one 3-bedroom and four 5-bedroom. The houses are open-plan, spacious and airy and have been designed with the surrounding environment in mind.

The split level decks and lounges provide various comfortable outside areas to relax, with hammocks and cushions everywhere. There is a spacious braai deck with plenty of room for friends and family, plus a fully equipped kitchen. The two double bedrooms downstairs share a sumptuous bathroom with sunken bath and both open out directly onto the front and back decks through glass doors.

Upstairs is another comfortable deck with great sea and lagoon views and 3 additional bedrooms, each with two single daybeds and shared bathroom. There is an outside shower for enjoying the star filled Mozambican night sky.

The houses are luxuriously appointed with high quality percale linen, quality crockery and kitchen ware, fans in all rooms and hammocks for chilled afternoons. The houses are serviced daily.Rates subject to change.

Barra is a stretch of wide, white sandy beach, fringed with coconut palms and rolling surf and is the ideal base from which to enjoy the many activities on offer such as world class scuba diving and surfing, horse riding through the countryside, bird watching in the mangroves and lagoon or just lazing on the beach, sipping a cocktail or cold beer and enjoying the world renowned excellent sea-food on offer.

Driving
If you wish to drive to Bela Vista Lodge, take the EN1 (the main road through Mozambique) and follow it until you get to the junction just south of Maxixe at Lindela. The road is mostly good condition tarmac although some areas are affected by potholes and in need of some maintenance. Once at the junction, follow the road all the way to Inhambane City. Once through Inhambane, another tarmac road (the EN259) follows the coast until you reach the junction for Barra Beach at Bar Babalaza. When you reach Bar Babalaza, keep going straight, following the red dirt road. A 4-wheel drive vehicle is not necessary. Bela Vista Lodge is located just past the turn-off for the lighthouse and easy to find.

Flying
The closest international airports are at Inhambane, just a 20 minute drive from Tofo Beach, and also Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, and also Beira, in the north of Mozambique, Harare in Zimbabwe, and Johannesburg in South Africa. There are flights from Johannesburg International Airport, Johannesburg's Lanseria airport and Maputo international airport to Inhambane airport most days of the week.

By Bus
Local buses run daily to Inhambane from Maputo (leaving at around 5.30am and at 11.00am) in the south, and Beira in the north. The bus from Maputo to Inhambane takes around 7-8 hours. The bus from Beira takes around 12 hours. Local buses and taxis (chappas) run several times a day from Inhambane to Tofo. The journey takes around 30-45 minutes.