four-day trip with Alefa

1 - Madirokely (Nosy-Be) / Anjiabe

We embark on board a large traditional veil dugout (with an engine if...) to leave to discovered an area where the sea represents the only access road. Appointment with 6h45 in our buildings at the edge of the beach for a sympathetic breakfast. We leave Nosy Be for the small Island of Ankazoberavina (1h45 of quiet crossing). Bathe, plunged apnea and discovered of an incredibly rich and varied, nice and coloured underwater world. Then after a short crossing, landing with Anjiabe, long beach of 3km bordered by an semi-abandoned cocoteraie, a site with the extraordinary low tides. It is there that we bivouac. After an aperitif and seafood a meal, nap, bathe and for those which wish it, pedestrian ballade to observe the many species of birds, for the majority endemic in Madagascar. Laid down sun, aperitif, meal... And good night!

2 - Anjiabe ~ Antambao

Morning departure for two to three hours of crossing, skirting a splendid coast with the varied and timbered relief. We plunge in the course of road on a site completely different from the day before. Then, with the veil or the engine, we continue our voyage towards Amtambao. It is about an arm of the sea apparently inaccessible bus barred to marrée low by sand banks. The poetry of the place is indescribable. We bivouac at the edge of a lagoon on a planted sandy headland of shrubs and coconuts. The typical forest of this area is, right there with with dimensions. Behind, in withdrawal, a marsh where it is easy to observe will hérons them hairy, green pigeons, falculies hooded, wild, sarcelles guinea fowls and rails of Vat. From the site, two arms of the sea curve between the mangroves towards the forest vastness and... the crocodiles. The afternoon, bathe or small ballade in the neighbourhoods of the close village. The evening, aperitif, meal and excellent evening in the light of the hurricane lamps.

3 - Antambao ~ Ambariomena

Departure the morning for approximately 2hoo of crossing. Diving in the course of road on a completely different site, where the coral forms large lace tables. Then with the engine or the veil (that depends on the vent..et of the desire) on the way for Ambariomena, place of our new bivouac. Change of decoration; left Malagasy, quiet fjord like a lake, bordered of small beaches of orange sand and small villages where the sheet misses. This arm of the sea is inserted then deeply in a maze of mangroves to finish in river with the feet of covered mounts of primary forest. We camp with the accesses of a village and according to the level of the tides, after midday we reassemble the arm of the sea where we walk to foot in this place where the greens and the pinks sing high the harmony of the colors. The evening, aperitif, meal under stars and... Good night! rocked by the sounds the village.

4 - Ambariomena ~ Nosy Iranja ~ Madirokely (Nosy Be)

Departure the morning for Island of Nosy Iranja (45 min approx.). Two Islands in fact, connected by a white sand bank of 1 km surrounded by two lagoons whose light and blue ones confer on this place a coral environment of dream. Diving in the neighbourhoods and ballade on this language of sand surprisingly white and luminous. When the winds blow, we will allerons ourselves some... i.e. around 13 hours. Return to the veil carried by the serenity of these magic dugouts.