“Many Ni Aina – Life is good” – This traditional Malagasy expression, expressing bliss, well-being, calm and beauty was probably born in Nosy Saba.

In our subconscious mind and imagination, the word “island” evokes a landmass surrounded with white sand beaches and a sky-blue sea. To this idyllic reality Nosy Saba adds a landscape of small valleys and large hills bringing the visitor to new landscapes at each turn of the winding roads. On large expanses of green and yellow grasses a herd of zebus graze peacefully. The peak reveals a 360 degree view over the sea and the big island.

The tropical vegetation here is a constant contrast to the great forest of the north north-east of the island and its prairies dotted with large ponds filled with water lilies and other aquatic plants.

Nosy Saba was never truly settled. Fisherman would stop there and passing travelers built a few rudimentary straw shacks.

A few simple graves are marked by a line of stones – probably sailors buried by their companions. A small cave at the forest edge was used as a tomb, but all that remains are traces of the stolen wooden coffins. These traces of mankind will remain forever closed. The beach is segmented by steep cliffs of very hard rock revealing awesome geological strata and small coves of the finest sand.

Nosy Saba is now a get away at the end of the world.