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Mahajanga is a good sized port city where pretty much all visiting yachts check out before heading to South Africa. It’s not a big international tourist destination though it is known as a place where Malagasy’s from inland come for beach…

Morumba is a gorgeous bay that is the most prototypically Malagasy place we visited. It’s made up of a couple of tiny fishing settlements, several islands spread out among a lagoon, and plenty of baobab trees and lemurs. The small…

After a full day and night of sailing from Nosy Be arrived at Nosy Lava, a small uninhabited island and former prison colony about 80 miles to the south. The island has a really nice reef surrounding it and is…

We arrived in Nosy Be in the late afternoon of 11/7. The anchorage was beautiful and we were surprised at how many other cruising sail boats there were (probably around 6). We talked with an American boat and learned that…

The sail to from Diego Suarez to Nosy Hara involved going over the northern cape of Madagascar, which can potentially be tricky, but for us it was really beautiful, maybe the most enjoyable day of sailing I’ve had so far.…

Diego Suarez sits in a gigantic deep water harbor and gets its name from the Portuguese sailor who discovered it almost 500 years ago. It’s one of the main commercial harbors in Madagascar and is probably the biggest city in northern…