Antsiranana Things to Do

I recommend a day trip to the nearby beach at Ramena. This beach was frequented mainly by Malagasy, except for the usual set unattractive aging French expats with their ridiculously young Malagasy girlfriends. Its a beautiful white uncrowded sand beach. Arrival is in the village of Ramena, which does not seem to have benefitted much from the tourists, but several simple beachfront hotels offer meals and beer. I reached the beach by bush taxi from Diego (finding the right departure is an adventure in itself for a non-French speaker; none are marked), but it is not expensive to take a taxi and drivers are eager to wait without charge for the return fare. It's a short but bumpy trip of about an hour.