Activities & Services

All our villas have a full time housekeeper who works from 07.30am until 15.30 (3.30pm). But we can also provide extra cleaning services on request.  No matter whether this is a planned or extra booked service, we provide extraordinary levels of cleanliness and superior service, so you never spoil your rest because of an uncleaned villa.

Our villas cleaning  include housekeeping for your bedrooms, floors, kitchen, bathrooms, common areas, plunge pool, and more depending on the chosen villa. You may also pre-order additional cleaning by phone during your stay.

We always meet the high demands of hospitality business for clearness.

Golden Shores Resort provides a shuttle service from the Inhambane Airport to the Golden Shores resort which is approximately 25 Km from the airport. This journey takes one through the town of Inhambane, and past some incredibly beautiful tropical landscape.

Inhambane Province offers some of the most amazing and glorious sights and places to go game fishing. Not only is the Indian Ocean warm and mostly calm, Mozambique has by some historical quirk managed to stay untouched by the kind of modern infrastructure and progress that tend to mar the natural beauty of a coastline.

The Guinjata Bay area offers excellent game fishing be it surf fishing, kayak fishing, deep sea fishing, salt water fly fishing, drop shot, vertical jigging, or spear fishing.

July till November means whale watching season in Inhambane is in full swing! Come and experience these ethereal mammals in all their glory while you indulge mind and body on some of the best beaches on the African continent.

Inhambane is a whale watching destination second to none, you can see these majestic marine giants within a few 100 metres of the shores, as they travel to the warmth of the Indian Ocean to mate and have their calves. It is quite common to see up to 30 or 40 of these beautiful animals on any day.

The Whale Migration

Every winter pods of whales embark on their annual migration from Antarctica to the South East African coast to mate and calve, one of the lengthiest migrations in the world. The migration to the warmer climate ensures the safety of calves, from their natural predators the Orcas, as well as increases their survival rate in the warmer environmental conditions (imagine being born in the icy cold waters of the Antarctic!).

Spot Southern Right and Humpback Beauties

You will be introduced to the magnificent migratory Southern Right whales and the Humpback whales as they swim past the East African coastline.

Both species are baleen whales which use their baleen or filter-feeder system inside their mouths to feed on krill and plankton. The baleen system works when a whale opens its mouth underwater and the whale takes in water. The whale then pushes the water out, and animals such as krill are filtered by the baleen and remain as a food source for the whale. Baleen is similar to bristles and is made of keratin, the same substance found in human fingernails and hair.

Behaviour of These Playful Giants

Humpback and Southern right whales have a rather playful temperament when not being threatened. Your whale watching experience will put you in a front row seat to observe the aerial antics of these magnificent creatures defy the laws of nature.

Humpbacks are considered the acrobats of the great whales and can breach (push their upper bodies above the surface) as high as 10 metres!

These whales have a friendly and a curious nature and are known to approach whale-watching boats or even spend a few minutes in close range of/and underneath these boats.

Also, watch out for

Lob-Tailing where they lie vertically in the water with their heads down, slapping the water continuously with their tails.

Sailing where whales are stationary in the water with their head down and only their tails sticking out.

Flipper slapping is when whales surface on their backs and loudly slap their pectoral fins onto the water.

Spy-hopping where whales push their heads right out of the water as if they spying on you.
Witness Their Unique Whale Song

The humpback whales sing spine-chilling songs. The male makes the long, loud, complex “songs” for which the species is famous and which can last up to 20 minutes long. Humpbacks may sing continuously for more than 24 hours but because they have no vocal cords, these whales sing by forcing air through their massive nasal cavities!

While scientists still don’t know the real reason why Humpback whales sing, it is interesting to note that all North Atlantic Humpbacks sing the same song, and those of the North Pacific sing a different song.

Did you know that the Humpback whale uses a very clever technique to catch its food known as bubble net feeding? What happens is a group of whales swims in a circle, getting closer and closer in as they keep blowing bubbles below a school of prey. The prey (krill or plankton) is encircled in the shrinking ring of bubbles and is then trapped in a cylinder shape that keeps getting smaller. This ring can begin at up to 30 metres wide and several Humpbacks can be involved. The whales then suddenly swim upward through the “net”, mouths agape, swallowing thousands of fish in one gulp. Wow!

The Southern Right Whale have a hairier head than most other whales and is recognised for its huge callosities or horny growths on its head behind the blowhole, on the chin and around the eyes and lower lip. These whales have two blowholes so when they blow, the water makes a particular shape in the air above them. Right whales were hunted by whalers who knew they were rich in blubber, therefore the “right” whales to hunt. Females can be more than 15 metres long and 54 tons in weight!

The survival of this species is being threatened. Climate change is currently impacting on whales as sea levels rise and temperatures change. The Arctic and Antarctic habitats are facing threats right now which could affect whales sooner than we realise. If the krill and plankton populations decrease, whales will really be in trouble.

Come to Golden Shores to see the whales! Maybe you will feel so tuned into these giant sea mammals that you will want to contribute to their on-going survival?