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'''The Hotel Palma Nova in [[Ambanja]] offers a relaxing atmosphere where you can expect simple and comfortable rooms at affordable prices with a private garden, a restaurant with seafood, Madagascar and Asian specialtiesspecialities. Several rooms are available according to your needs and your budget.'''

Lunch and dinner is are served in the spacious palm -thatched restaurant and bar area. Simple or Continental breakfast is served in the rooms or in the restaurant. The hotel ground includes a small beautiful tropical garden with palms, banana, ylang ylang, gauva and various flowering plants.

Palma Nova offers 17 rooms: 5 air -conditioned ground floor rooms, 5 ventilated economy rooms and 6 spacious ventilated upper floor rooms with double or King-sized beds. All room rooms are equipped with mosquito nets. Price ranges between 47,000 Ariary and 112,000 Ariary per night. Additionally, there is a dormitory with 12 beds (6 bunk beds).

Palma Nova is a popular meeting place in Ambanja which offers special event events and catering for up to 500 people, weddings, birthday parties etc. During major football tournaments, live matches are displayed on a screen in the restaurant and bar area.

* Guided visit of to the Sagi plantations and introduction to various spices and fragrant plants. Lunch at the village of Anjavimilay, which is known for its embroidery crafts. Traditional braiding and facial session sessions are offered by the women of the ''Fivemi Association''. Depending on the day of the [[fady]], visit of a sacred lake or Mahamanina waterfall.

* Discovering of mangroves and their marine species. Visiting [[Antsahampano]], a former colonial village and port in the midst of mangroves. Depending on the tides, exploring the mangrove mazes by pirogue. Seafood lunch is prepared by the women of the ''Tsy Kivy Association'', followed by traditional songs and dances.<br><br>

* Visit of the Bons Pères cascade and [[Ambobaka]], a village known for its traditional medicine. This tour allows visitors to discover the ''Upper Sambirano'' and its huge cacao plantations, rice fields and small villages. Visit to the garden of medicinal plants at Ambobaka and learning learn about the ancestral knowledge excercised exercised by healers using plants and different massage techniques. Canoe ride along the ''Ramena River''. Picnic and swim at the waterfall.

* For short stays, a visit to Ambanja is will be incomplete without at least a brief visit to Sambirano. For example, about one kilometre upstream on the left side of the river coming from the central market place (Bazary Be), there are depending on the tide usually sandbanks offering an ideal swimming spot in this beautiful river.<br><br>