Classic or Diving Cruise - Mangily/Ifaty to Morondava 8 Days
✓ Included
- • Full board
- • Navigation
- • Village visits
- • Diving equipment (optional)
- • Paddle-boarding
✗ Not included
- • Drinks
- • Dives
- • Surfboard rental
- • Land accommodation (optional)
CRUISE MANGILY/IFATY - MORONDAVA 8 DAYS
8 days of full-board cruise, with possibility to dive the coral barrier during the first 6 days (minimum 4 divers), and swell allowing surfing. This itinerary is subject to weather conditions. Drinks, dives, and surfboard rental not included in price.
Detailed Itinerary
Ifaty/Mangily - Transfer of luggage aboard from the beach opposite MANGILY SCUBA. Installation aboard, swimming, paddle-boarding, surfing when swell allows, snorkeling or discovery dive in Rose Massif, before hoisting sails in the afternoon for overnight navigation to Salary.
Salary - Morning swimming, paddle-boarding, snorkeling and possibility of 2 dives. Lunch aboard before land walk discovering Vezo fishing villages. Return aboard for dinner before ending evening "at Francesco's" animated by Mikea musicians group.
Ambatomilo - Morning navigation to Ambatomilo with possibility of 2 dives en route, swimming, snorkeling and paddle-boarding on calm lagoon waters. Lunch aboard, siesta before climbing dunes overlooking the village. Dinner aboard and evening at Martine's. Night aboard anchored in lagoon shelter.
Ambatomilo - Antsepoka – Assassins Bay - Morning navigation with possibility of 2 dives en route to splendid Assassins Bay. Swell allowing, beautiful surf break at bay entrance. Paddle-boarding and bay walk. Dinner aboard and campfire evening at Pierrot's. Lodge option (not included).
Assassins Bay - Andavadoaka - As soon as tide allows, departure for Andavadoaka with possibility of dives en route. Afternoon arrival, visit of incredible hospital for bush people and Vezo villagers, drink in village, dinner and sleeping aboard.
Andavadoaka – Morombe - Morning navigation to Morombe with possibility of dives en route. Walk in this small western town, provisioning. Dinner aboard and outing to Eclipse, vibrant local disco, before overnight navigation to Nosy Andriamitaroka.
Nosy Andriamitaroka - Snorkeling, morning swimming, paddle-boarding and walk through nomadic Vezo fishermen camp. Late morning departure for Mite Dune. Dune climbing for breathtaking views of sea and interior lakes. Dinner aboard before overnight navigation to Belo sur Mer.
Belo sur Mer - Morondava - Dawn arrival at Belo sur Mer. Free day to visit this temple of ancestral dhow construction methods. Early afternoon departure. Pushed by western winds, arrival at Nofy Be Club House pontoon in the evening.
Diving Option with Mangily Scuba
For those wanting to dive, MANGILY SCUBA offers on this cruise a diving safari between Mangily-Ifaty and Morombe provided you are minimum 4 divers.
Anne Furr, PADI instructor, settled in Madagascar for several years will take you on 8 to 10 dives in 6 cruise days. All equipment, tanks, compressor, rescue material included are provided by MANGILY SCUBA.
Dives will be between 10 and 30 meters depth along coral barrier. This part of Mozambique Channel offers magnificent sites: drop-offs, canyons, patch reefs and drift dives in the passes.
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