Before settling on Nosy Komba, Antoine spent more than ten years in audiovisual production and art direction. It's that creative eye he brought here — in the design of the bungalows, in the attention to detail, in the way the lodge blends into the jungle without ever forcing it.
The lodge sits on 2 hectares of private forest at 70 metres altitude, on the heights of Ampangorinana. The bungalows are built from local materials. Every balcony looks out over the sea and the Lokobe Reserve. The lemurs come at breakfast.
Nadia, his wife, cooks every day with fresh produce from the local market and fish delivered each morning by the island's fishermen. Garden herbal teas, house-made lychee rum, lobster on request. The team — Mbola and the others — knows every trail, every excursion, every guide on the island. They are what makes the lodge.