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'''Shortly after leaving Sambava direction north along RN5a, turning Turning left onto a secondary roadjust north of Sambava, the this route runs up and down and along hills hilltops with great panoramic stunning views of the surrounding hillscapes until the villages of Antisraka [[Antsiraka]] and [[Ambohimitsinjo]].''' [[File:Sambava-Ambohimitsinjo-Farahalana-Sambava_by_bike_002.jpg|600px]]

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Thereafter the road and sometimes trail continues at lower altitudes through various plantations until the Maheva river, passing through the villages of Ambodimanga, Masovariaka until reaching [[File:Sambava-Ambohimitsinjo-Farahalana along RN5a, which runs north back to -Sambava_by_bike_map.jpg|link=Sambava.-Ambohimitsinjo-Farahalana-Sambava_by_bike_map]]

The road and sometimes trail continues at lower altitudes through nature, vanilla plantations and along rice fields until the Maheva river. The route thereafter runs through the villages of [[Ambodimanga]], [[Masovariaka]] until arriving at [[File:Sambava-Ambohimitsinjo-Farahalana-Sambava_by_bike_map.jpg|link=]] where the RN5a turns north back to [[Sambava-Ambohimitsinjo-Farahalana-Sambava_by_bike_map]].

During the rainy seasontimes of much rain, the road along the river until between Ambodimanga and Farahalana is gets very muddy and more or less bikeable unbikeable in places.

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