Anjajavy Travel Guide

From Anjajavy Hotel you can take a boat trip along the Mangroves and out into Moramba Bay.
You can stop and see the ancient burial caves along the way, where the ancestors of the village people are buried.
There is an ancient Baobab Tree which is sacred and it is forbidden to walk around it anti-clockwise or to visit it on Thursdays!
If you return through the Mangroves at Sunset it is lovely to have your Sundowners on the boat watching the sun set over tyhe bay and the mangroves.

In this region there are a number of limestone plateaux, eroded by rain into spectacular formations which are known as ‘tsingy’.
There are also a lot of of underground rivers and caves. If you are near to caves at sunset you may see lots of bats flying off to feed during the night.
You can explore the caves with a guide. I don't like caves myself, but my husband really enjoyed this and came back with nice photo of a lovely little fuzzy faced fruit bat. The caves are underground so you have to climb down a ladder to get into them, and once you are in it is, of course, very dark so a torch is a good idea.

The walk to the Marina takes you down a well made path through the forest.
If you go slowly and keep quiet with your eyes and ears open the wildlife you can see is incredible. Sifakas jump through the trees, and if you are lucky you will see them jump across the path in a line.
There are many harmless snakes and lizards and beautiful birds too. We never took the offer of a lift here, even if it was really hot, as it was so much better to walk and observe something different every day.
The watersports are good here - fishing, catamarans, snorkelling and canoes. You can also swim from the Marina but BEWARE the current can be strong and will take you out quite fast, then it can be difficult to swim back. However, you can shout the boatman on the beach to come and get you!

You can walk through the mangrove at low tide to the Sakalava fishing villages of Ambondro Ampassy or Anjajavy. Alternatively the hotel will organise a guide to take you and show you around.
The village of Ampassy has pirogues for fishing lined up along the beach and is quite small, although the school is modern and the villagers are extremely proud of it.
It is very peaceful, women sit sewing on the beach and the man repair the fishing boats.
There is a good craft shop selling locally made products - I bought a beautiful set of horn salad spoons very inexpensively.
If you don't speak French, communication can be a bit of a problem. At the time of our visit there was no English speaking guide.