Last stop - Belo sur mer

And so with only a few days left we decided to pay a visit to the rather inaccesible beach village of Belo sur Mer, south of Morondava. With our new found friends Jacques and Marie-Claude Dabbadie, we shared a kat-kat/quat-quat/4x4 across 3 hours of sand roads and flood plains.

We had great plans of diving at an Eco-village resort and whale watching but this was not to be for various reasons both logistical and financial! Instead we walked the beaches, had some lovely meals with our French friends (residents of the nearby volcanic island of Reunion) and generally relaxed.

After a few days there we started the epic trip back to the uk, which basically entailed:

- 3 hours by 4x4 to Morondava
- 19 hours by taxi brousse to Antananrivo, with the same guy driving for 18 hours!!
- 1.5 hour flight to Reunion Island, disembark
- 11 hour flight to Paris
- Overnight in Paris airport
- Coach from Paris Orly to Charles de Gaulle
- 1.5 flight to London
- 3 hours to Exmouth, Devon UK (thanks Lexa's parents!)

So as you can imagine we felt pretty wrecked, but left Madagascar feeling like we had seen alot of the country and got a real feel for the place. We hope you now know a little more about it too!

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