Late start this morning at 8.30 so time for a leisurely breakfast with our first croissant and to enjoy the beautiful orchids and hotel grounds and tortoises!
Met up with another car after buying more water to go in convoy for the first part of the journey. Saw the bank with a long queue as Zo had predicted and lots of cyclopousses and markets as we left Morandava.
First river crossing at 10 ish at Kabotomena. Very deep and scary!
The type of Baobab tree we started seeing changed to shorter max 4-5 m called Fony Andansonia Rubrostipa we saw fruit on them as apparently those aren’t so nice so not collected so much.
We then stopped to enjoy some beautiful lillies on a lake. Lots of butterflies too. And we saw a huge black and white one which Zo called the sacalava butterfly.
We then did our next river crossing which was dry! The family near the start had just been given an avocado from the car infront which they had never tasted before!
We arrived at Belo sur mer by crossing a large salt pan and then cutting across the dry bed as it was low tide. Potentially quite easy to get bogged down!
And finally arrived at 1.30 at the Hotel Entremer, a little corner of paradise. Greeted by the French owner with a local fruit cocktail we found our little huts on the beach and settled in for a well deserved rest!
The sunset was amazing again directly from the chalets.
Evening meal was a treat with traditional malagassi food including a lovely crab starter and ray for main. The vegeatables included one we had never come across called Chayote and tasted of unripe melon.
