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'''The Hotel Palma Nova is a hotel in [[Ambanja]] offers a relaxing atmosphere where you guests can expect simple and comfortable rooms at affordable prices with accommodation, a private garden, restaurant with seafoodMalagasy, Madagascar Asian and Asian specialties. Several rooms are available according to your needs European influenced specialities and your budgeta welcoming service team.'''
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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 but beautiful tropical garden with palms, banana, ylang ylang, noni (morinda) gauva and various flowering tropical plantsand flowers.
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* Half-day guided tour by mountain bike through the cacao plantations surrounding Ambanja. Discovering spices, such as [[Madagascar_cacao|cacao]], coffee, [[Madagascar_Vanilla|vanilla]], black and pink pepper as well as fragrant plants, such as [[ylang-ylang]], vetiver grass, patchouli and [[combava]].
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* 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 singing and dances.<br><br>
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* 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.
* Bike tour or day's trek along the Sambirano River to [[Andranomandevy_(Ambanja)|Andranomandevy]] with an overnight stay at [[Auberge Panoramique "Mahatsinjo"]], managed by the ''Toky Miray Association''. * A bike ride to the [https://maps.app.goo.gl/JWGRupbr3X5Je3rc9 White heron colony] about 20 kilometres from Ambanja close to the village of [[Andranomandevy]] can be combined with an approximately 1-hour return boat ride to Ambanja. * For short stays, a visit to Ambanja will be incomplete without a brief visit to Sambirano. The sandbanks on the left side of the river coming from the central marketplace (Bazary Be) and about one kilometre upstream can, depending on the water level, offer an ideal swimming spot in this beautiful river.<br><br>
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For additional information about tours, accommodation and reservations, contact:
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hotelambanja
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