A still infinity pool at Anjajavy reflects a line of coconut palms, the sea a thin band of blue behind them

Madagascar  ·  Northwest coast

Anjajavy le Lodge

Madagascar is not the Africa most safari-goers picture, and that is precisely its appeal.

Anjajavy le Lodge sits on a peninsula on Madagascar's northwest coast, and the setting does a great deal of the work. On one side, a sea the colour of turquoise. On the other, a natural reserve very much alive with its own business. Between the two, fine sandy beaches of the kind that make people postpone the thing they were about to do.

Madagascar is not the Africa most safari-goers picture, and that is precisely its appeal. It is a country of surprises, and Anjajavy, in the lodge's own words, has not finished surprising you. That is a confident thing to say about a place. It is also entirely in character for the island.

Aerial view of a crescent of pale sand held between dense forest and turquoise shallows, a rocky islet just offshore
A cove on the peninsula, from above
The landscape does the astonishing, and the people make you feel that it was arranged for your benefit.

What the lodge embodies is Madagascar's particular pairing of beauty and hospitality: the landscape does the astonishing, and the people make you feel that it was arranged for your benefit. A peninsula with a reserve behind it and a sea in front is a rare piece of geography. Anjajavy has made a rare lodge out of it.

For anyone who has done the mainland and wants a different ending to the story, this is a very good one.

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The lodge

The lodge entrance: a steep-pitched thatched roof glimpsed between palms and travellers' trees, pink hibiscus flowers scattered along the timber walkway
The way in
The dining pavilion at dusk, table lamps lit beneath a tall palm-thatch roof, lawn running down between palms to the sea
The dining pavilion, at dusk
A timber villa on stilts glows from within beneath a sky thick with stars, palms and forest dark around it
A villa, under stars

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The peninsula

A violet and magenta sunset over the sea, coconut palms in silhouette and lanterns glowing along the lawn
Sunset over the lawn
Two canvas deck chairs beneath a white umbrella on a timber deck, coconut palms and the turquoise sea beyond
Two chairs, one sea
Aerial view of the peninsula: forested headlands and small islands set in turquoise and deep blue water, pale beaches curving through the coves
The peninsula from the airNorthwest Madagascar

Anjajavy le Lodge

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