I enjoyed very much this journey: first of all the beautiful landscapes: the sea beds in the Nosy Be archipelago, the volcanic island of Ankazoberivina where the sea turtles lay their eggs, the beautiful island of Nosy Komba with its primary forests ( lemurs, chameleons and also medicinal plants),the National Park of Ankarana with its baobab trees, the "Montagne des Français" with its impressive walls and caves and finally Diego Suarez (now called Antsiranana) with its colonial buildings, Renault 4L taxis and auto rickshaws and the Emerald Sea near this town.
This documentary has a great moment: in the island of Sakatia belonging to the Nosy Be archipelago the Malagasy people live a new ecologic expoerience: we meet Richard Marindaza, a member of the local development council (Comité local de bae) which is coordinationg the different development activities in the island: the people are little by little convinced of the importance of their forests and marine ressources: so the fishermen don't fish near the seashore: farmers have received a training to become ecologic guides showing to the tourists the fauna (lemurs, chamaleons,etc) and the flora : so they get a new income and women are producing embroideries that they sell directly to the tourists who visit the island (women empowerment).
In her journey through Madagascar Sacha had very interesting encounters: Massimiliano Felici, the Italian boat captain, tour operator and also marine biologist, Yvonne Jacqueline Abdallah, the healer and guide in Nosy Komba who shows the lemurs and medicinal herbs to Sacha and prepared a medicine for the hangover and stomach aches for the men of the village; Eline Razafisoa, the pleasant town mayor of Bemaneviky who invited Sacha to a ceremony in the secondary school,: Nathanaël Oudiette , the tour operator who organized a bike tour for Sacha (plantations of ylang-ylang, chameleons in the trees and meeting with Benjamin Djaovary and his wife (cocoa plantation , vanilla plants, pepper plants and jackfruit trees) a very interesting moment; Cyrille Cornu, researcher who knowks many things about the baobab trees :Sacha saw how the colleagues of Cyrille were measuring the diameter of the baobab trees and later they climb a Perrier's baobab); Tinah Rasoarimanana, the manager of bungalows for tourists and guide in climbing of the "Montagne des Français" and also Ali Chams, the marine guide who went with Sophie to the Emerald sea and then to the island of Suarez.
I enjoyed very much this documentary with very nice landscapes and very pleasant encounters with kind and friendly Malagasy men and women.