Atsinanana Region

Fancy hotel w semi tame lemurs?
Ok. I'll go.

Also vanilla
And tortoises, fairly large and apparently ready to get it on.

The place was a little like Mada-disney, but it was fun and they had wifi.

They also had howling wind that made the beach unpleasant. I'm glad to be staying a lower-key resort.

The ride there, along the Palangala Canal, was wild.... Jungle grows into the waterway. Birds and rustling things can be briefly glimpsed, sometimes heard. People were smiling and waving as we went by and while they lived their lives beside the waterway in quaint thatch huts. From an outside view, and for a brief moment, it seems idyllic.

I ended up cancelling my nocturnal aye-aye hike. In part I didn't want to wait around five hours, but also I realized that the guide was liable to walk us a few hundred yards, point at another lemur, and that's that, except... At night. Not that I want to *not* see another, just that I guess the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

Instead we grabbed a picnic on a quieter beach, took a snooze, then boated up the canal to a cute lil fishing village to walk home.

I'm enthralled by the natural beauty here. It's a very special place.Læs mere