The first is the view from my room at the Sol Y Mar Hotel. The next five are some shots taken along the coastal road.
Up bright and early, 8am, to an amazing view. Right outside the front door is the beach and you look across a large bay. Fishermen are already out in their pirogues, carved canoes, and best forgotten yesterdays trip, at least for a few days.
Had a lazy breakfast because I told the driver I didn't want to see him until after 9.30. The roads on this side of the island are supposedly the best in Madagascar, so it will be plane sailing.
We set off and I have to admit the road is ver good. Its missinf all the twist and bends and is reasonably straight. Lovely tropical views, villages, palm and banana trees with the occasional beach. Sambava is a lunch and bank stop. They'll only let me change 1000 euros and I'm there nearly an hour.
On to Antalaha where I have a couple of dealers! to see. Well the first shock is there are no real hotels here. It used to be only a dirt road until they upgraded it and no hotels for visitors. We'll have to go back to Samvaba for the night.
The dealers are a wash with only quartz and picked over aqua and garnet.
We locate a villa at Sambava, right on the beach with good cheap rooms and food, but no a/c. Its quite hot here in the high 20's C. Bed early as we hope to go to Andapa and back to Vohemar all in one day tomorrow.
Had a lazy breakfast because I told the driver I didn't want to see him until after 9.30. The roads on this side of the island are supposedly the best in Madagascar, so it will be plane sailing.
We set off and I have to admit the road is ver good. Its missinf all the twist and bends and is reasonably straight. Lovely tropical views, villages, palm and banana trees with the occasional beach. Sambava is a lunch and bank stop. They'll only let me change 1000 euros and I'm there nearly an hour.
On to Antalaha where I have a couple of dealers! to see. Well the first shock is there are no real hotels here. It used to be only a dirt road until they upgraded it and no hotels for visitors. We'll have to go back to Samvaba for the night.
The dealers are a wash with only quartz and picked over aqua and garnet.
We locate a villa at Sambava, right on the beach with good cheap rooms and food, but no a/c. Its quite hot here in the high 20's C. Bed early as we hope to go to Andapa and back to Vohemar all in one day tomorrow.
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