From swimming with sea turtles to mingling with wild lemurs, here's my ultimate Nosy Be travel guide: the best things to do, island day trips, where to stay and practical tips. After a week of dusty roads, dramatic sunsets backdropped by baobab trees and climbling stone forests in Western Madaga[...]
15 years ago, Alberto and I traveled all over Madagascar on our honeymoon, and the Red Island completely blew us away. Wild and rugged, it was the most unspoiled and pristine country we’d been to. Now that we’re living in Cape Town, we decided it’s time to return and show our daughter one of[...]
Madagascar is one of my favorite countries in the world. Here are some interesting facts about Madagascar that you might not know! Before coming to the Red Island, I knew nothing about Madagascar except for its quirky lemurs and chameleons (even that I’d learned from the animation movie Madagasca[...]
Before setting off for Madagascar, I dreamt about its wildlife, its forests and its cities; but only after the trip did I realize that the most memorable moments of my trip were spent watching the locals. I remember watching them sell sugarcane on the streets, make cakes on their steaming hot pans,[...]
They don’t call this the ‘wild west’ for nothing. Red Earth, robust baobab trees and brownish rivers – the remote Western region of the country epitomizes Madagascar at its most exotic. With few roads connecting here to the rest of the country, this hard-to-reach region is pockmarked with hi[...]