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BAIE D'ANTONGIL & MASOALA PENINSULA
North of Soanierana-Ivongo lies the remote Baie d'Antongil, a place that seems better
known to humpback whales than to humanity. Its boundaries stretch from Mananara around
Maroantsetra to the Masoala Peninsula, forming a deep blue U teeming with fish and sur-
rounded by mountainous forest. Cut off from easy road access to the south, and with nothing
but hiking trails elsewhere, this is a place whose only reliable contact with the outside world
is the intermittent flights into Maroantsetra. As a result, there is a captivating sense of time-
lessness here, as if one has been flung back into 1950s Madagascar. Disconnected from the
wheels of progress, one turns to the mountains, the sky, and the sea.
