Holidays in Madagascar
Our choice falls on
Nosy Be island of
Madagascar, the perfumed aroma of vanilla and ylang ylang and a sunny climate all year round excluding February and March period of risk cyclones. Here's one all-inclusive resort and is the Andilana Bravo Club Located on a beautiful beach, well-kept, has given us a wonderful holiday. The spacious, clean rooms are divided into a garden or sea, we advise you to wake up from it immediately with a wonderful view of palm trees and a sea of ??various shades, with its high and low tides will change the landscape several times a day. Two white beaches, with a nice animation of the Bravo and the other guys, relax with the sound of the sea. There are also two restaurants, the main buffet, where you do not miss anything from breakfast to dinner and the food divine, everything is homemade biscuits from the dough. A real attack on the line! Alternatively, in a strategic position, "Pili Pili" is available for buffet lunch and evening by appointment you can dine on seafood and lobster (fee), in a romantic area consists of 5 tables and fine sand. A cure, if you have exaggerated with the portions, you get to prepare an infusion with citronella, a plant that grows in the garden of the resort.
At
Nosy Be are the most beautiful sunsets and intense that you can see. They start at about 17.45 and for the next hour the sky is tinged with pink, red, orange, blue .... Of all the places we visited, these are the best, if he is accompanied by a cup of tea and a slice of cake, the result is perfect. In the evening there's the usual animation to the village that we genuinely have snubbed, but given the friendliness of the staff I think we can have fun. Sundays at 18.00 in the theater there is a real Mass with gospel songs.
Time to be bored and there is not a valid reason to get up from the cot is shopping. The boutique resort, like all of those villages, it is expensive, but on the beach and outside the complex there are shops selling handicrafts at very nice prices really cheap. The straw colored bags are more beautiful than the other, so that no one was returning to the airport without it. Even the typical lemurs, chameleons, baobab trees. Made from the seeds, necklaces and bracelets and stuff with horns of zebu. A must buy hand-embroidered tablecloths, a great job for a great souvenir.
To recover from fatigue can you purchase a massage, as the resort, which fortunately were on offer, are made very well. The most enjoyable? Oriental Acupressure with oils!
Then there are the trips. Among the many proposals in the village, complete with a terrorist act to deter them with the beach boys, we never have chosen three. They're not cheap, but very well organized with trained guides, and especially for company.
Quad Adventure
Half day to know a little 'heart of
Nosy Be. They visit villages simple but high-impact, with their customs and traditions, you see beautiful beaches, vegetation and many chameleons. Their name comes from greek and means "lion of the earth", measuring from 60 to 10 cm for smaller species. Most live in Africa and 2 / 3 only in
Madagascar, are the only animals in the world to have eyes that can rotate and focus independently. Most of the population fear and awe of this animal and even the Sakalava tribes of the north believe that bring with them the evil spirits of the dead. How strange to see seems so cute !!!!!
Nosy Iranja
It is located 2 hours by fast ferry from the village. In reality, the two islands.
Nosy Be Iranja, which is the largest inhabited Nosy Kely Iranja, smaller. The islands are connected by 2 km of white sand, where you can take relaxing walks, but only at low tide because then everything is submerged. The water is very warm and transparent. Umbrellas, white, made for our arrival creates a fantastic setting! A paradise, silence and solitude. Lunch on the island is always carefully prepared by chef Arnoaud. Pasta with shrimp, lobster and shellfish, fruit, dessert and coffee, all on white embroidered tablecloths and fresh flower arrangements. The Twilight Zone. It 'a place not to be missed. During the crossing, then a meeting with the dolphins.
Deep Blue
In one hour by speed boat to get to Nosy Mamoko island of pirates. Dada is the old village chief and the arrival welcomed the group and thanks for the solidarity that we bring, rice, vegetables, flour ... buy a small fee included in the cost of the trip. Two giant turtles on the beach and walk to the call of "machi machi" monkey lemurs also coming. They are beautiful and accustomed to these meetings, they jump on his back and pat (do not get nervous toccategli tail) all the "cost" of a banana! Do not use repellents if you want to touch them, so as to interfere as little as possible and try not to give candy to children, do not need them, the island is cariano teeth and there is neither the doctor, much less the dentist. We would be pleased if a stranger passed the yard of your home and give something to your children? Surely not.
The tour continues up the island to get to a centuries-old baobab tree, is certainly not the most beautiful of
Madagascar, but there are many possibilities to see
Nosy Be.
LionFish second stage, a protected marine reserve. Here you snorkel for about 40 minutes but the output was really disappointing. On our return there is a ready reception with drinks and fruit. On the island there is a colony of fruit bats are also called flying foxes because the head resembles a small fox. The largest species can reach a wingspan of 2 meters and a weight of 1.5 kg. They are not cute like chameleons! It then starts to Nosy Sakatia, only 3 square km island of absolute stillness reigns. We have a great lunch of fish and Malagasy cuisine. On the way back even lucky enough to see dolphins and in time for the fateful the time. Beautiful day!
With Charlie, beach boys, we went to Hell-Ville, the main city of
Nosy Be, anonymous and shabby, with a food market, where to buy spices, already packed in packets, priced and the salesman who speaks Italian! 3 km away is the distillery of ylang ylang. It is a gnarled tree very common in
Nosy Be and deliberately kept low to facilitate the collection of fragrant yellow flowers which yields for the production of perfume essence. Our goal was Ambatoloaka however, to go from Manina to leave our solidarity in school supplies. It 'an extraordinary person and know it gave us a great lesson in life. He has done and continues to do wonders for this country which has fallen in love after a holiday, much to move. Visit the school in front of his home, the first of 199 built by you has been the most exciting part of the holiday. It 'a people who need so much, dignified and respectful, with a great desire to learn and study. Through you, visiting your site we can all do something, a little thing for us, a great result for them.