AFRICA'S FIRST UNDERWATER HOTEL ROOM OPENED IN PEMBA ISLAND: THE MANTA RESORT- SLEEPING WITH THE FISH

Just off the coast of Tanzania, The Manta Resort on Pemba Island has added a beautiful, other-world underwater bedroom to their original 16-room offering.

• The Manta Resort on Pemba Island, off Tanzania, opened a new Swedish-designed underwater bedroom this month. The resort says six guests have stayed in the new digs so far.

• The daytime view is of shoals of reef fish such as bat fish and trumpet fish.

• At night, spotlights outside the bedroom windows attract and illuminate the shy crowd.

• The company behind this design also launched The Utter Room in 2000, another underwater room in the middle of a lake in Sweden

• The three-level floating structure has a sky deck on the roof, and incredible views of the stars at night.

• Well, not quite middle of the ocean. The underwater room is located 250 meters off shore.

• The room floats above The Blue Hole, which resort representatives say is an anomaly in the coral reef -- "A perfectly protected spot" that's a circular hole inhabited by large coral heads and vibrant marine life.

• The rest of the resort is located on the coast of Pemba Island. The recipient of only a few dozen foreign visitors annually, the island has a population of 300,000 and is the world's largest producer of cloves. In addition to cloves, mangoes, coconuts and other fruit are grown on plantations on the island. 
•  The resort is popular with divers owing to the coral reef around the island.
• Underwater Room, The Manta Resort, Pemba Island, Tanzania; +255 776 718 852; $1500 per night for a two-person stay, $900 per night for single