Diego Suarez (antsiranana)
As I'm new on this forum, I would like to greet you all and to thank you for sharing these precious information.
I had been 3 times in Madagascar and I will be back in July and August. I m looking for buddies interested in travelling together and have some good and naughty experiences with nice girls.
Let me share my last trip in Diego Suarez at the beginning of this year.
Diego Suarez is kind of special in Madagascar, this city has a nice atmosphere of liberty as it is supposed to have been libertalia, a city created by pirates during the 17th century. Anyway you can find khat to be sold in the street, people smoking in some places and have sex very easily.
First, I met a local male friend that helped me a lot. I could rent cars from his relatives (20 K to 30 K a day), this was very useful to move any time and to save some money. He also helped me for security, for prices, to find and to translate to the girls (even if I m French) and we had some nice experiences taking one or two girls at the same time together. I noticed that some ladies are willing to do a lot with vahaza but when there is a local guy, sometimes they are more reluctant.
City: You have a main street with fancy bars, restaurant (Rue Colbert). The center for night life is near the expensive hotel called LE grand hotel. Parallel to this street, you have a street (Boulevard Etienne) with a lot of very good local cheap food sold in the street (from 7 pm to morning). Don t be afraid to go to eat there late, I never had troubles.
From 3 pm to 11 pm: The Vahine is the place to be: Big terrasse, Live music, lots of girls, you can buy cigarettes and play their crappy pool if you like. Just reserve the girl you like, 90 % are available, lot of semi pro there. I also liked to go to a place called les arcades during the afternoon, no girls but nice atmosphere, cheap, and a courtyard to relax without noise.
From 9 or 10 pm to 1 / 2 am: The taxi be is just 3 minutes from the Vahine, you ll see everybody migrating there: Live music, nice place and on Thursdays there is a contest of local dance that will turn you on for a long time I guarantee you, pools tables also available. You ll see some very nice girls there but most of them (the more interesting ones) are waiting for you to do the first step.
From 12 pm to morning: You have clubs 10 mn walk from the taxi be, the Nouveau casino is a club and a bar linked together, in club 5 K a drink, free entrance for vahaza and girls, nice dance floor with sexy girls dancing. It would be very difficult to not find company here. Don t hesitate to dance with multiple girls, they are very open minded, it s a lot of fun. Late in the night, you can always find girls in front of the nouveau casino, not the best one. Two other clubs nearby: la boite noire and l'etincelle I think, just cross the street from the grand hotel, but I never went there.
Prices: For a night, between 20 K to 50 K, usually 30 K is nice.
Ambanja and Antshohiy rethought
Great to read about everyone's different and mostly really great experiences. Here in Antsohihy I just got the full on fucked vazaha experience. Got stupid and cheap and saw a nice room for 10,000 ariary, well of course two hooded guys came knocking the door down at 1 AM, I thought I was done for. Found out the hard way that the pepper spray I bought was about as hot as medium spicy thai food, anyways, the guys were pretty well covered up so it probably wouldn't have worked even if it was the real stuff. Got hit two times on the top of the head with a baton and I consider myself very lucky. I thank my lucky blood vessels that so much blood squirted out on the 2nd hit the guy left me and went looking for more valuable things than a bloodied and pissed scared vazaha. The damage: A nice new haircut and stitches and my money and passport stolen. Lucky I cached my cards before going to sleep. Learned a very valuable lesson; don't be cheap in the land that is already cheap. And also, Antsohihy, never again! I think I'm the only vazaha here and it's a poor town so that probably explains a lot. Also I think the hotel was in on it, I was screaming MPangalatra! (Thief!) for what seemed like 3 minutes, of course no body came till after I was pouring blood everywhere. Also since my time with the police today I've learned that Ambanja isn't all roses and flowers either. More dangerous with guns according to them. Pay attention, make sure you know the security where you're staying, and keep a stash of your valuables hidden somewhere! If I could do it all over again I'd just throw my cash all over the room and hide under the bed. Sad, sad times.