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Tuesday 16 May – Masoala National Park
Another 6am start for me as I had chosen to join the rather scary ‘birders’ on their walk. So quick breakfast and in the zodiac by seven and over to the Masoala National Park. Created in 1997, this is Madagascar’s largest protected area covering 2,300 square kilometres of rainforest and 100 square kilometres of marine…
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Monday 15 May – Nose Mangabe
Today was our first proper adventure day. With an early start and laden with a long list of things we had to take, from snorkels and fins to life-jackets and the all important, Ships ID card. This had to be swiped every time we left or arrived on the boat and very easy to leave…
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Sunday 14 May – Toamasina
By the morning we had arrived in Toamasina, Madagascar’s main port and second largest city, to be greeted by some wonderful pink ladies dancing for us. It was a tricky decision today as we wanted to do both excursions, but in the end we all decided to go to the Ivolonia Zoological park to see…
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Saturday 13 May – at Sea
Today was spent at sea and if we thought this meant ‘at leisure’ we could not have been more wrong – we had an action packed schedule of talks and even Ship Pilates or Shiplates (seated) with former ballet dancer, Wendy. Our day started with a talk by Daniel Austen about Madagascar. Daniel is a…
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Friday 12 May – Reunion Island
A little concerned that we might feel a little queasy on our overnight journey, Lucinda and I took a sea sickness pill and slept SO well – in fact struggled to wake up all day – not sure we will be doing that again. When we eventually woke, we were coming into Port Est of…
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Wonders of Madagascar and the Seychelles
With Noble Caledonia and the ‘Ladies’: Mum, Lucinda Baxter, Felicity Clark (Flee) and her lovely friend Flavia Gale. Thursday 10/Friday 11 May – Mauritius Emirates flew us safely and painlessly to Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport (luckily we did not have to pronounce it!) on the south coast of Mauritius (some more comfortably than others!),…
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Who knew? – Surprising facts I have learnt on my travels:
Potatoes originated in Peru and they have over 3,000 varieties The Peruvian alpaca business was started by an Englishman Finland is the biggest, per capita drinker of coffee All tea comes from the just two varieties of tea plants You cannot walk around naked in your home in Singapore India is the second biggest exporter…
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Wednesday 19 April – The last Post!
Sadly it was still hazy, so the 5.30 sunrise was not quite what it might have been, still I needed to get up as I had voted to go kayaking with the boys, so off we went at 7.15 to nearby Hang Loun island. I was kayaking with Ha and it has to be said…
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Tuesday 18 April – To Halong Bay
Thick mist again this morning, which we all prayed might lift and the sun come out before we reached Halong Bay, the highlight of our trip. Carol wore her glamorous Chanel glasses all the way to encourage it. We had a four hour journey, north, in our little bus which gave us a chance to…
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Monday 17 April – Ninh Binh
Some of the boys headed off for an early cycle ride with Mr Nga’s son, but us gals and John chose a quiet morning by the pool. It was sadly another overcast day, but we headed down there all the same to find a nice man cleaning it. Yesterday when we swam, we thought it…
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