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Mrs. Bluebell, New York Age and Occupation in 07: 26, Finance Manager Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Playing with the cat and/or Consulting Engagement Date: December 25, 2005 Wedding Date: June 2007 Venue: Bride's family summer home in the Adirondacks About Me: Trying to find the perfect balance between family tradition (marrying at the house everyone else in my family gets married at), making our's modern, interesting and different from everyone else in my family's, and incorporating some Chinese tradition for my Chinese fiance. I really have no idea what it's going to end up looking like! Also, I picked Miss Bluebell for my name because I have blue eyes and I'm a loser like that.
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Honeymoontastic! [Part 1 of 2]

July 15th, 2007 @ 11:34 am by Mrs. Bluebell

We just got back yesterday from…paradise! 
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[a zillion more pics below the story]

Seriously, our resort - Anjajavy, in northwestern Madagascar - is the most amazing place on earth!! And as Mrs. Pumpkin said about her honeymoon, well, it was definitely the best honeymoon I’ve ever had!

Our villa was gorgeous (it was “the best one” according to several employees, who say most repeat guests request it since it’s the only one that’s really right down on the beach). The beach was spectacular, the food was to die for, the pool was gorgeous, the people were amazing, the landscape was incredible…plus there were LEMURS ALL OVER THE PLACE!!! They are seriously the coolest creatures ever. I wanted to hug them and snuggle them forever and ever but, um, that’s kind of frowned upon. Bah.

Regardless, the whole honeymoon far exceeded our expectations! We went on a number of 1 to 2 hour hikes (some on our own, some with guides), got a free couples massage, went on a boat tour of the mangroves at sunset, rode in a traditional Malagasy pirogue, ate three course lunches & dinners every day (plus huge breakfasts and teas), sat & swam by/in the beach & pool a LOT, visited two extremely tiny nearby villages, saw the fossilized skull of an extinct lemur species about the size of a gorilla, saw a million varieties of bird/lizard/bat/crab….and spent several hours every single day watching the lemurs! There were 3 groups of sifaka lemurs that roamed through the area and several groups of common brown lemurs as well. Both of them loved a number of types of tree that were all over the resort, so they just hung out there! Like all the time!!!

Every time we realized we hadn’t seen any lemurs in a few hours, one would just bound by and then we’d see the whole pack up in a tree, or bouncing around like crazy people. Seriously, for anyone who wants to see lemurs in the wild, Anjajavy is the place to go! It’s right on the edge of a nature reserve and they have strict policies forbidding any feeding/touching of the lemurs so they are totally wild, and react about the same way to humans as a squirrel would. Except they are also really curious and stare at you sometimes trying to figure out why YOU’re looking at THEM. It’s awesome.

Okay, all that said (but more is coming with part 2)…now it’s time for pictures!! (Split into two posts since even though I narrowed this down from nearly 1300 photos (yes, I said that right), there are still a ton)

First…our dinner in Paris:
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Our first view of the resort from the little prop plane (the only way to get there)…okay you can’t actually quite see Anjajavy itself in this pic, it’s like a sixteenth of an inch off the left side of this though.
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The plane we arrived on, and the dirt runway!
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Our villa!!
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View from our hammock of the Indian Ocean/Mozambique Channel
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Sunset from the mangrove cocktail boat tour (also free for honeymooners!)
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Ahhh the pool. How I miss you! And the main building (restaurant/lobby/pool table etc) behind.
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Hehe I love how the sifaka lemurs just hang out.
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And look how awesome their feet are! That’s why they can’t walk normally and have to bounce around.
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View from the main building across the lawn to the pool, and the ocean beyond
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The main beach (it was amazing to swim in but there were only EIGHT GUESTS for the majority of our stay, so there aren’t any other people in any of our pics)
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The villas from the beach (ours is the half-visible one on the far right, set closest to the water)
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Super scary staircase cut into the cliff that we had to climb down for our private picnic on the beach (all waiting for us, prepared by the resort). There are 5 small coves that you can hike to and choose whichever one you want your picnic in!
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Hehe couldn’t resist. (And yes, this took several waves coming and going before it came out right, and yes, Mr. Bluebell mocked me a lot for it!)
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Hello scary crab!
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A grey egret at low tide
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As part of turn down service every night they put the sheer curtainy things down around the bed (not for mosquitos - there were none - just for prettiness!) and flowers on the bed.
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An over 2,000 year old Baobab tree. The diameter is at least ten feet, and you have to walk clockwise around it because the local Sakalava people consider it sacred.
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A common brown lemur. They make the funniest little grunting sounds ever!
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I’m just having a chat with my brown lemur pal.
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To be continued…

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15 Responses to “Honeymoontastic! [Part 1 of 2]”

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nina nina

Looks like it was great! Just what I needed though..another terrific honeymoon destination.

 
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bethgraced

Oooh, wow. This looks like the most fun honeymoon idea I’ve seen yet! Can I ask what resort you stayed at? The lemurs sold me. The bed looks so pretty and romantic, too! :D

 
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Pencils

Wow. That does look incredible. How long was the flight, though?

 
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Miss Kiwi

Awwww, awesome!!!! I am so jealous! It looks fantastic!

 
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alessette

it looks like you had a wonderful time!! :) i love your pictures, and the lemurs are adorable!

 
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Jacqui More

Absolutely amazing. I have a friend who is going to Madagascar, and I can’t wait to share this with him.

You must have had an incredible time, a time that you will cherish for years to come. This is obviously one destination that is overlooked.

 
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C-girl

I like your ring. Did you post more about it earlier?

 
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BA

I also LOVE your ring- can you post details about where you got it? Sounds like your honeymoon was great!

 
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Liene

It looks beautiful, congrats!

 
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Miss Bluebell

Yay, thanks everyone, it truly was incredible!!! Everyone should go to Madagascar!!!

And thanks about my ring too! I posted about my wedding ring a bit here: http://www.weddingbee.com/2006/12/22/wedding-ring-engraving/ and engagement ring here http://www.weddingbee.com/2006/11/09/so-um-me-too/ just in case anyone’s curious about that too! FYI they’re both Vera Wang but the store where we got them no longer sells Vera Wang jewelry since she switched which jeweler she was partnering with, so the designs have changed and at least according to that one store, the quality is less good…

but more importantly - go to Madagascar!!! :-)

 
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Miss Bluebell

Oh, and the name of the resort is Anjajavy - http://www.anjajavy.com - highly highly highly recommended!! And their honeymoon package comes with a huge discount PLUS random free stuff!

The flight there is to Paris (where you have to spend one night, but you theoretically would get an entire day to hang out there as well), then to Antananarivo (capital of Madagascar) which is like 10 hours. Then a night in Tana, then a 1.5 hour prop plane flight to Anjajavy, so yes it does take a while! On the way back you don’t overnight in Paris though, so it’s just about 24 hours nonstop traveling!!

 
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bunnybride

Baobabs and Lemurs… that looks like an amazing honeymoon.

 
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My

I must find a way to get to Madagascar… :) Everything looks sooo peaceful.

 
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fatafelice

And I thought I had an amazing honeymoon!

Wow, now I totally want to go to Madagascar.

 


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