Nosy Be - land of TOURISM
21/09/2015 -
On the day we sailed to Helleville, we
passed a landmark called “the four brothers” – some big rocks that are all
parallel to each other.
When we arrived in Helleville, after a not
windy passage (seriously, I think it has got to do with the time of the day),
we got out of the boat like lightning to go and extend our visas – we were not
keen to give those people in Ile St Marie more than 300,000 just for their
pockets. These people were still corrupt, but just not as much.
One of the days we spent going to Lemuria
land (go to oskarsphotosevita.simplesite.com to see some photos of it) where we
got to have lemurs jump on our backs and, after we fed them, poop on us!
Also, nearly all of our friends are here! I
guess the way to get to SA is through Nosy Be.
On the 24th we went to go to an
island called Tana Kelly with one of our friends off another boat –the
snorkeling there was great! We even got to see two green turtles swimming on
the reef. As it was not an overnight anchorage we had to leave to a place that
was stacked with yachts (I bet you the furthest away one boat could be from
another was about 15m), it was called Crater Bay.
As all of the other kid boats were here we made the most of being able to go
and play with them – but the best part was that we could actually go and play
with them while the adults went to do their sundowners.
On the third day of staying in Crater Bay we
went to rent some motorbikes in which we got to see most of the island: we even
got to go to the highest peak of the island (320m).
After that we
had to leave Crater Bay to go to Helleville, where we had to get our passports
(that had just been sent to Diego for a reason we don’t even know) back.
As we all
wanted to go to the two most famous national parks in the area, we decided to
leave to Nosy Komba and Lokobe national parks for a few days.
Directly
after the first few minutes of walking through the Komba Nature reserve we got
exactly what we wanted: lemurs dancing through the green trees in the park,
looking at us and asking whether we got any bananas handy! I really enjoyed
watching and feeding all of the different animals in the area – not the Boa, or
course!
The next
anchorage we stopped in was the well-known Lokobe National Park – which we got
to do a hike in! We did actually see one lemur – lone (first one!). Even though
my favorite animal was the Boa, I still saw quite unique and strange things
here: such as the leaf tailed gecko (a super camouflaged animal that sleeps the
whole day long on a tree trunk – I seriously did NOT know how the rangers
managed to find this animal!).
In the end we
ended up going back to a place called Sakeatea – we had to get out of Nosy Be
quickly!