We begin our tour of the surrounding islands.
Today, Nosy Iranja (Double Island)
Fascinated by the beautiful photos and romantic invocation of Nosy Iranja's description by the authors, who signed it thus:
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I took the liberty of copying one (1!) photo and an introducing fragment of the poem to promote the island, which is undoubtedly a pearl in the Indian Ocean.
Perhaps the authors, who have not revealed their names, will forgive me?!
Between land and sea,
Right off the coast,
Two sublime islands lurk,
In love with each other,
Loving each other with an infinite love,
Connected by an arm of white sand,
Day and night,
Appears for the duration of the song. (...)
We sailed southwest for almost 90 minutes, and for the last 30 minutes we had the mainland of the great island of Madagascar close to us on the eastern side.
And what lay ahead? See for yourselves. It's hard to describe – poetry is needed!
But before you see the heavenly views, hear about the Polish "little hell" on the "purgatory" island of Nosy Be:
A native Malagasy from this island, Albert, founded a travel company six years ago. It turned out that Poles became his main clients. Marcin joined Albert and they formed a company called Albercik i spółka.
Unfortunately, after two years of working together, the company fell apart, and Albert and Marcin became active competitors, fighting over the company's name and logo, among other things.
While participating in an expedition to Nosy Iranja with the "real" Albercik, we heard the story of the conflict.
The real Albercik shocks with his high level of Polish. He had been teaching himself, online!!
Everyone in his seven-person crew speaks Polish, but the girls stand out in particular.
During the cruise, they sang Western hits together, their own moving, incredibly rhythmic music, and… Polish hits in Polish!
What do you think? Because it made a huge impression on us.
The Polish flag on the boat and the commitment of the entire group created an incredibly warm atmosphere, proving that "our" Malagasy people like Poles.
