Madagascar by Daniele Somenzi
Stato: MADAGASCAR (MG)
Madagascar and Mauritius in March 2008
Journey with Marco Meneghini, my traveling companion random, only 3 travel with him, but this one in Madagascar just last minuto.Per an escape for him to forget.
Started from Malpensa with boeing 767 air of Italy, with a stopover in Fiumicino to embark passengers, pulled up only to Madagascar Nosy be where we arrived the next morning, then the plane went to Mauritius.
The seats on the Boeing 767 ex britannia, are not reclining, and do not have the adjustable cheek rests, therefore, I slept badly as though every time I put the cap in the ears and the blinders to the dark.
this is my 553 th flight line, the hostes have a nice dress, skirt, white blouse and green and red cap, like the Italian flag.
Upon arrival, we descend the ladder on the runway, the plane lands greater than in this small airport, it is the first nostro.Il impact is with the weather, hot humid, typical of tropical places where there is also a risk to malaria, in fact I took lariam before leaving,
Marco speaks French mother tongue, then I saw him speak here speaks French. go on a taxi and we do bring in some hotels, the first is too good and expensive for us, the island of Nosy be, then, to discover that everything is the Madagascar + dear.
The taxi driver stops and shows us a beautiful chameleon green, not so big I had ever seen, that biricchino with those eyes from furbetto going here and there.
In the end we find the edge of the beach a kind of double pensioncina.60 €, mica so cheap. but we are tired of trying and the place we like. also has satellite TV that allows me to see the GP of Formula 1.
Our room had air conditioning, you're good when it is turned on, a little less when in the middle of the night, no one knows why, turns off and the humidity made us wake up.
Klark find a local guide speaking Italian, which we organize a little the next day with various excursions.
The first was the day to follow, with a boat took us nell'isoletta Nosy comba where we saw the lemurs snakes and turtles. But nice that lemurs are, I also came on the shoulder to eat a banana I had in hand.
Then we moved on to another island where we did the bathroom and a trip to the local lighthouse. Bats made from a kilogram of good shows though, seemed to be the Boeing 747, flying in search of fruit to eat.
We ate with another group of tourists all perterra, the local delicacies of fish and fruit. Principal returned the island of Nosy be the usual speedboat, we organize a trip for 3 days and 2 nights in Madagascar land in the national park and then on to Diego Suarez.
The day after we leave the hotel and I are starting with Marco driving Klarc, the port at a time of bad local town. A fast motorboat takes us 20 minutes to the mainland, where there's a 4x4 with a driver who stays with us all the time. The road is just disgraceful, tossed a go go for about twenty kilometers, this for starters, then who knows. Instead come to the state road, things have improved. From there we went to just the national park, where we finally get off the car we had lunch a local restaurant, the mini, and then we went on foot. The heat in the sun very strong in the forest but it was good. ASvvistiamo a nocturnal lemur in a hole inside un'albero. we set with 2 eyes grandi.I chameleons are many, including snakes, even from afar a group of wild lemurs. The guide leads us in a place with a big hole where a river disappears into the bowels of the earth but only strong when it rains, then another striking lunar landscape full of rocks made apunta impossible to walk over, I place on that premises have invented many legends.
Let us go to Diegosuarez where staying 2 nights.
2 steps walk to town, of course we are talking about a small town with few African French very old cars and shops run by Chinese. They like the Italian restaurants are everywhere in the world just like the crows.
The day after the program was very allettante.In port had reached an Italian cruise ship, the sea that has downloaded dozens of Italian tourists in the city and also to more intensive that we are going to do. At the beach with a boat of wood, under the sun and low tides, up from the other side of the river where we stood and we walked for miles between the green and then switch to another From the part of a boat twenty people there waiting to bring us more all'isoletta far into the Indian Ocean. We got them at a safe distance from the Italian Coast marine and the fish we ate grilled fish with a spear while coming.
The bath in the sea was a relief to the heat. beach and sun. until the afternoon when the tide was high. we left for the return, unfortunately, a shower has invested, and I feared for my camera, not to get wet then I was stuck under the front of the boat stuck in the place dry.
What adventure.
Hotel in a beautiful shower and ready to make 2 steps and a game of pool before going to sleep.
Start to return to Nosy be 400 miles from Diego suarez who arrive in the afternoon here and avoiding the chameleons on the road. Same boat and who are in the bay? yet the sea, which during the night had moved there.
Mark and I then usually go back to the hotel and decide to spend the remaining two days, those of Easter, hiring two motorcycles 125, which allowed us to see the length and breadth of the island. We went to the village where they were interned Alpitour all Italians who were on our flight.
On Easter Day the beach in front of the hotel is full of blacks from every where, one day to make new friends, walking up and down to the beach 2 km long, until the evening there mere high he pushed on.
The two bags full of things brought from Italy used to give or exchange with the locals, are now processed in small souvenirs that I brought home.
The Air Canada plane was on time, ask to go to Fiumicino rather to Malpensa from where we started, to Mark who lives in Grosseto, and it is better for me so that I have spared another transfer from Rome to Milan would epoi been too late to take the train to The Cinquale.
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