Madagascar - a new place to visit!

Friday 13th of December

The feeling of walking around barefoot in Africa again just makes my heart and soul peaceful.

First full day on holiday today and it’s been amazing. Of course it has been raining on and off all day as it always does in the beginning of my travels, BUT it’s been lots of sleeping, naps, reading book, watching the locals play football and then I even managed to go for a run and had a little beach workout.

The travel route to get here was ….. let’s say LONG!! But booking it I remember how stressed I got cus all tickets disappeared in front of me and only option I found was from Barcelona. That means we had to go to Barcelona earlier, pick our bags up and check them in again so that made the trip 7 hours longer, but hey, it was worth it!

Both our bags arrived after 3 long flights and after driving 30 minutes on small roads we reached the hotel. At first, we were both a bit worried on where we had ended up but damn, the views from this room is just unbelievable and sunset just outside.

We are on an island outside of Madagascar called Nosy Be at Swisscocobeach hotel (located on the south east coast of the island) and it is not much happening around but it is the perfect place to start the vacation at and do just NOTHING for a few days. We will book some excursions and see what to do around here but for now, we just rest.

The view from our hotel room

Madagascar it self is a massive island and we decided to go to this island as we've seen and read a lot of good things about it and this is where we will be for all 2,5 weeks we have. There is a lot I would like to explore around the whole Madagascar island but for that we would need around 5-6 weeks minimum to have time to go around. Apparently Madagascar is the world's 3rd biggest island.

So far, the food in the hotel has been very nice, it was a challenge the first night to get my allergy (garlic) across as they use it everything and they only speak French and Madagski and a little bit of English but we managed and I’m straight in to my Africa diet again - eggs, fish, rice and fruits. Clean, fresh and so good!!