A few kilometres west of Tolagnaro lies vast lake Vinanibe which is rich in prawns and connected to the Indian ocean by a small channel. There is a small islet at the northern side where Vinanibe river enters the lake, and on the islet is the so-called Portuguese Fort, the oldest surviving building in Madagascar. […]
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Nahampoana Reserve
Situated only a few kilometres north of Tolagnaro, Nahampoana Reserve protects a small patch of rainforest as well as some bamboo forest and mangroves along an overgrown channel crossing the reserve. Originally, it had been founded as a botanical garden around 1900, but later it was used for forestry before it became a reserve after […]
Lokaro peninsula & Evatraha – Die Lokaro-Halbinsel & Evatraha
Evatraha is a beautiful, small coastal village at the north end of the vast bay starting at Tolagnaro peninsula. The best way to reach it is by boat via lake Lanirano north of Tolagnaro, from where one must cross the stunning mangrove landscape of the lake and its channels before passing the sluice leading to […]
Tolagnaro (Fort Dauphin)
Tolagnaro, also known by its French colonial name Fort Dauphin, is Madagascar´s southernmost city, built on a peninsula at the south-eastern tip of the island at the place of the former settlement Tholongar. After a brief visit of Portuguese castaways in the Antanosy region at the beginning of the 16th century, it has been the […]
Update: Mitsinjo
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Moramanga
Moramanga, `the place of cheap mangoes´, is a junction town with around 60.000 inhabitants along the RN2 running from Tana to Toamasina at the east coast. From here, you can either go to Lake Alaotra in the north, visit nearby Andasibe-Mantadia National Park or one of the associated protected areas like famous Mitsinjo reserve, or […]
Update: Antananarivo – Tana par plaisir
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Fajã de Água
If Fajã de Água wouldn´t already exist, I´m pretty sure some writer or film director would make it up. It resembles too much a dream or a fantasy, and it is too close to at least a million clichés we´ve been fed with through movies, advertisement and pulp literature, because it´s the place at the […]
Brava, the wild one – Brava, die Wilde
With only 64 km2,Brava is the smallest of the nine inhabited islands of the archipelago, an underwater stratovolcano that had been lifted to the surface over the course of thousands and thousands of years. There is no volcanic activity anymore, but clusters of minor earthquakes occur from time to time, a proof that there is […]
Nova Sintra
The capital of Brava Island is Nova Sintra, sitting about 500 metres above Furna down at the seashore. A winding road leads up to Nova Sintra which takes no more than ten or twelve minutes, but you come to a totally different world. Where Furna is hot, humid and rocky, Nova Sintra is green, humid, […]
