Thursday, August 4, 2011

MADAGASCAR

ANDASIBE
Hotels
Vakona Forest Lodge – BP 750; 011-261-20-226-2480; hotelvakona.com; wonderful grounds and tranquil; offers night hiking to see “mouse lemurs.”

Sights & Sites
Andasibe-Mantadia National Park – see Indri-Indri lemurs

ANJAJAVY
Hotels
L’Hotel Anjajavy – Anjajavy Road; 011-261-33-1-4469-1500; anjajavy.com; nestled in 400-acre nature reserve; beautiful ensemble of rosewood villas scattered over long fine sandy beach.

ANTANANARIVO
Hotels
Hotel Colbert – 29 Rue Prince Ratsimamanga; 011-261-20-222-0202; hotel-luxe-madagascar.com; full-service hotel; has patisserie like those on Champs-Élysées.
La Varangue – Lalana Printsy Ratsimamanga; 011-261-20-222-7397; room hotel decorated with colonial era relics; excellent restaurant.

FORT DAUPHIN
Hotels
Berenty Private Reserve – Southern Madagaascar; see “Dancing Lemurs” (Verreaux’s sifaka); bungalows quite dull and little shabby and food so-so; access to lemurs unrivaled.

MORONDAVA
Sights & Sites
Avenue of Baobobs – between Morondava and Belon’i Tsiribihina in western Madagascar’s Menabe region.

STE. MARIE
Hotels
Princesse Bora Lodge & Spa – BP 13; 011-261-20-570-4003; princessebora.com; stretched along a pristine beach.

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