Dzamandzar

Had a great day at Nosy Be Madagascar (another country to add to our list!) We took the wrong Tender and were not able to make it to our tour - so we went into a sea of Taxi drivers screaming “Where you want to go I take you.” Anyways we picked one who seemed like a good choice but quickly found out the extent of his English was “Where you want to go?” I brushed off my ten words of French and proceeded to go to Google translate which didn’t work because ATT turned off our data internationally for overuse. Called ATT international customer service line and after five minutes of prompts found out they only work US hours. Oh well.

We went to a lemur sanctuary. These are about the cutest animals in the world. They would literally grab my hand gently to get to the bananas we had. Saw a 200 year old tortoise named Napoleon and his younger 100 year old wife Josephine. We also saw some “Turtle Porn” Our guide generally spoke the same amount of English as our driver but seemed very chill and I get the feeling I overtipped him based on his reaction.

We then went on through “downtown” traffic chaos of the occasional truck, constant tutus, motorcycles and wagons pulled by cows to get to a pretty spectacular beach where I had the worst rum and coke of my life. But it was only $2.50.

Back to the ship for amazing gluten free pasta and spectacular sunset.Read more