My little Africa

content:
photos:
Vote this travel review

The choice of this trip was pretty quick and casual: one year after very tiring and stressful, we need to relax and wonderful sea to be. The Indian Ocean we seemed ideal because of the dry season and the time available so our final choice was Madagascar, even after reading the always useful views of travelers viaggiscoop.
We took as a point of supporting the club Bravo dell'alpitour: village wonderful, excellent location, excellent food quality and quantity, spacious rooms, this animated, fun and unobtrusive, really nothing to fault.
Unfortunately some illnesses from holiday we were unable to move from the village for the first few days, so we reserved the last two days to two trips to the islands nearby.
Like many, we decided to make the trips with the beach boys, which at low tide, are found on the beach or on the rocks next to the village often, however, and this thing is pretty fastioda and sad to see, the boys are away the security of the Bravo, for the simple fact that the excursions offered by them are highly competitive with those of the village holiday we spent half the prices offered by the structure that housed us and we have not contracted much, otherwise the price would be even lower .. but honestly we have not heard to contract for 20 or 30 euro unless we change a little and they are a little wealth.
A note in this respect is a must: totally trust these guys, because they have no interest and make you ill or cause to be passed and also trouble you help them. We rely on Michael, but we've also known Cosimo, Giorgio, are all good people and, given that we are at the bottom of guests at home, we felt it was right at least help with that.
Furthermore, the type of tours offered are quite similar to those offered by tour operators and even if you want to build on the outputs so far as you want.
The first excursion was to Nosy Iranja: outside the village holidays Michele took us by taxi to the port of Ambataloaka Here we boarded a boat on a speedboat driven by a gentleman of the place and plenty of after an hour we reached the sea a destination. Nosy Iranja is a beautiful beach and white sea maldives, crystalline. The islands are actually two, linked by a strip of sand, which makes it even more impressive. After the bath, took the sun and take lots of pictures, our guide will prepare lunch near the huts of the village of fishermen eat fish, potatoes, rice, lobster and fruit in large quantities, really excellent. After lunch I also friends with the children of the place: from home, I decided to bring their pencils and colored markers to color and stay with them for almost an hour was beautiful: it's amazing, these kids have really little or nothing, and is been so good to see how their smiles lit just saw the colors and designs that I did them, a truly touching, that I was almost moved and made me want to come take all the kids at home!
The tour ended shortly after lunch, then to 15 back to port where we expect our taxi which takes us back to the village.
The second excursion was to Nosy Komba and Nosy Tanikely.
We reach the first island ever since I usually, but this time the crossing takes just a little half-hour: the arrival on the beaches of Nosy Komba reception is totally different from the previous day: the kids here are much more insistent, too accustomed to tourists and now they say bon-bon (a clarification: if you want to bring something to children, not to bring their candy, then why not have the ability to heal any cavities, so they would be just one more problem to be solved) .
Nosy Komba is a park with animals: after having paid the ticket of entry, our guide leads us nell'intrico the streets between the trees and huts and doing little after the knowledge with our first lemurs: if you offer them bananas, you literally sling on your shoulder and are not dangerous, but very gentle and soft to the touch. We see then a buoy (a bit sleepy, indeed almost entirely helpless say ..), some turtles and tiny chameleons, these animals are a bit too "domesticated", put there just for tourists and it saddens me a bit. .. also our guide seems to have a bit of a hurry and the visit draws to a close in a short time before re but wonder if I can give some paint to children of Nosy Komba and just received the consent of our escort, a lot of children surround me and I almost tear from the hands and the color sheets I had prepared for them, everything was done very quickly, I almost had time to be with these children, but I hope I have made still happy with my small gesture . Let us go then to Nosy Tanikely, where we arrived after 15 minutes by boat, this island is a beautiful landscape: the sand is white, complete shell, and fish are so many that come close to shore. We do some snorkeling, then lunch under the trees on a table all point as always by our guide, even today we eat fish, rice and fruit. Two lemurs are close to us always greed of bananas that do not hesitate to give them in exchange for some shooting, in short, a true paradise. The trip to Nosy Tanikely, it is concluded here in the early afternoon and into the 15 we re-embark to Nosy Be.
I would like to conclude with some final considerations: as you can see with your eyes if you will, Nosy Be is an island so beautiful as poor and the contrast between the holiday village and the inhabitants of villages, is very striking. We tourists come spoiled with all the comforts, the Malagasy do not have much, some tourists as we encountered during the excursion, we were told that the rest of Madagascar is much more poor and Nosy Be in comparison is a little oasis of happiness and at the bottom of tourism has brought many benefits to all of them, but still the fact that our standard of living is totally separate from them. Go there, plant the umbrella of our white men on their shores, denying them access, I do not think is right: this is because each of us, in his little should do something for these people that everyone said is very peaceful, quiet and not a smile never denied to anyone. So if you want to bring t-shirts for the beach boys and for children, but also colored pencils, notebooks, which will be very happy to accept, or if you want, make a donation to the hospital or the nearest parish: this will not solve the problems Africa, but at least you will know that they have something to contribute but your gesture will be only a drop in the ocean. Finally, a motto Madagascar. MORA MORA-plan means that plan, a council that I have re-follow, if only in memory of this wonderful people that I remained in my heart.