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mAdAGASCAr the first taste of Nosy-Be, of the villages, of the people who live
in very dignified huts of three meters by three with a kitchen
urely seeing fifty sea turtles come alive is an experience outside the front door, with saucepans almost always filled with
Sunforgettable. Upon our arrival at the Andilana village in water to boil the rice, the predominant element of their diet, that
Nosy-Be, the local biologist of Italian origin, now in Madaga- wash themselves in the river, have no bathrooms but use exter-
scar for twenty years, had immediately warned us that in the nal bulkheads and pits in the ground. You will be amazed by
week of our stay there it would have been a hatch of numerous the vegetation, the landscape, the colors and the many children
sea turtles on the beach right in front of our accommodations. with smiling faces. Arrived at the hotel the usual welcome with
These are emotions that remain inside you for a lifetime. When a welcome cocktail and immediately in the garden a blue-green
you land in Madagascar you always have to be very patient with chameleon that seems fake because of its bright colors. I start ta-
the long lines due to visa before leaving the airport. But already king pictures and shortly afterwards, along the garden path, one
on the bus, on the way to the hotel, from the windows there is of the mega earth turtles moves forward. They told me that it is

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