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Excursion NOSY LAVA,
where hell gives way to paradise

Nosy Lava is an island that is located in the northwest of Madagascar facing the resort town of Analalava on the mainland. One-way ticket to the penitentiary Hell to paradise. With its turquoise waters and coconut palms, this magnificent island of white limestone and savanna rocks has sheltered Madagascar's last stronghold. Serving as shelters for some fishermen of dinga-dinga (sea cucumber) passages, the penal colony is now abandoned after having closed its doors thanks to the obstinacy of a Malagasy journalist.

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The penal colony was officially closed in 2002. Samuel, still under the punishment of his life sentence... Samuel is now 58 years old (in 2017). When he was 20, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. In a brawl between two rival gangs, one of the belligerents was killed. The court then sentenced 5 people to this heavy penalty! Samuel remained in this prison until his closing in 2002. He is still under sentence of his condemnation ... and he is forbidden to leave the island. Today he is engaged in that he conducts excursions on the ruins.

Today the penal colony is no more than a collection of ruins which one can visit while remaining cautious.

Behind the mansions, a path crosses the mangrove and makes it possible to sink into the savanna to the lighthouse, from where one can appreciate the point of view. The island has a really nice reef surrounding it and is hilly on the interior with white sand beaches. It is under the benevolent gaze of the lighthouse that you can bathe with a decor of a beach of fine sand, coconut palms, a bay sapphire and emerald, surrounded by white cliffs.

Little by little, hell gives way to paradise.

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