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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, restaurant with seafood, Madagascar and Asian specialties. Several rooms are available according to your needs and your budget.

Lunch and dinner is 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 are equipped with mosquito nets. Price ranges between 47,000 Ariary and 112,000 Ariary per night. Additionally, there is dormitory with 12 beds (6 bunk beds).

Palma Nova is a popular meeting place in Ambanja which offers special event 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.

In cooperation with Libertalia Aventure, Palma Nova offers activities including mountain biking, trekking and kayaking. While exploring the region of Sambirano with its immense plantations, tours support social projects in some of the villages. Activities include:

• Half-day guided tour by mountain bike through the cacao plantations surrounding Ambanja. Discovering spices, such as cacao, coffee, vanilla, black and pink pepper as well as fragrant plants, such as ylang-ylang, vetiver grass, patchouli and combava.

• Guided visit of 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 offered by the women of the Fivemi Association. Depending on the day of 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 prepared by the women of the Tsy Kivy Association, followed by traditional songs and dances.
  
  

• Visit of the Bons Pères cascade and Ambobaka, a village known for its traditional medicine. This tour allows 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 about the ancestral knowledge excercised by healers using plants and different massage techniques. Canoe ride along the Ramena River. Picnic and swim at the waterfall.

• Bike tour or day's trek along the Sambirano River to Andranomandevy with an overnight stay at Auberge Panoramique "Mahatsinjo", managed by the Toky Miray Association.

• For short stays, a visit to Ambanja is incomplete without at least a short visit to Sambirano. About one kilometre upstream on the left side of the river coming from Bazary Be, the sandbanks offer an ideal swimming spot in this beautiful river.

For information about tours, accommodation and reservations, contact:

Palma Nova
Hotel - Bar - Restaurant
Ankatafahely
Ambanja 203
Madagascar

Tel: +261 (0)32 12 005 29 / +261 (0)32 12 005 30
Email: contact@palmanova-ambanja.com
Website: http://www.palmanova-ambanja.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hotelambanja

Geographic coordinates:
13°40'37.6"S 48°26'50.4"E

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