Nosy Be Travel & Vacation Guide

Nosy Be — meaning "big island" in Malagasy — is Madagascar's premier tropical island destination, floating just 10 kilometres off the country's northwestern coast in the warm Mozambique Channel. Fringed with powder-white beaches, turquoise waters, and lush volcanic rainforest, this fragrant island is blanketed in plantations of ylang-ylang, vanilla, and cocoa that scent the air at every turn. World-class diving, snorkelling, whale shark encounters, and island-hopping to secluded neighbours like Nosy Komba and Nosy Sakatia make it a paradise for ocean lovers. Eleven volcanic crater lakes, black lemurs in Lokobe National Park, and colourful colonial streets in Hell-Ville round out one of the Indian Ocean's most captivating and biodiverse island escapes.