Baobab JB: Exotic guest-house in Perthes, close to the Lac du Der, in Haute-Marne.
You will discove²ench-Malagasy environment there…
The Guest-house
The house is located on center village, between the town hall and the church.
All houses at that place have all stoned-walls giving a very beautiful image to the communal hall where parties can be held.
The village is not very far from Saint-Dizier which has a nautical center, the Camille Claudel museum, a media library.
It is rural with its countryside’ environment but is also very close to every needs / convenience too.
The very close lac du Der allows relax while profiting a preserved fauna.
Personal rooms
Every room is equipped with a dry hair, a mini-bar, a television, and private toilet and bathroom
The services
Copious breakfast will be for you an opportunity to appreciate the various Malagasy and local specialties
Exotic Guest-house with ethnic meals.
organization parties with topic
Sale of Malagasy spices.
Prices
1 night: low season
Menu
Reservation
Cooking Courses
Baobab JB also proposes you initiation to the Malagasy kitchen.
Access
The Guest-house Baobab JB is located in Champagne-Ardennes, in the Haute-Marne department (52), at the south boundary of the Marne department (51) and very close to the department of Aube(10) as well as the south part of the department Meuse (55).
Menu
Baobab JB proposes you authentic menu with Madagascar colors and taste, especially:
We can also give you drinks, appetizer, Malagasy desserts and other specialties.
Romazava is the national main course in Madagascar, it is a sort of soup made of different leaves of vegetables.
Ravitoto is a Malagasy specialty, a dish prepared with crushed cassava leaves and pig meat.
Lac du Der and its surroundings
The nature with the passing of the seasons.
The hot colors of autumn dress progressively the landscape of the lake Der announcing the arrival of migratory birds like the grues cendrées.
Coming to spend the winter in our shores or migrating to the south, thousands of birds arrive: Grues cendrées, Oies de moissons, Oies rieuses and Oies cendrées, Aigles Pigargues, Cygnes sauvages et Cygnes de Bewick, Garrots à oeil d’or … they are all there!
In spring, meadows and lakes become a crèche. The site belongs to the Hérons pourprés, Butors, Rousseroles which merge with the surrounding nature. About 200 couples of Foulques and many Grèbes live on the floating nest or in the roripe amphibie en fleurs (gold yellow flowers which color these places between land and water)
This natural and preserved environment receives 200 species of birds, some scarce and endangered, 40 species of mammals, 45 variety of dragonflies, 20 kinds of amphibians and more than 200 different plants.
Equipments for easy discovery: many types of equipment available such as look-out post on the lake and the ponds of Outines and Arrigny, glasses for the observation, or the path for nature discovery.
If your heart (and legs) allows you, you can reach a platform to view the water tower of Giffaumont-champaubert. Its 30 meters height gives an open view to the lake and the surrounding meadows where there are chances to admire roe deer, fox wild cats or Grues cendrées …
The lac du Der Chantecoq (the largest artificial lake in Europe) with its 48000 hectares of water, its 77km of banks (at the bend of) you will find: ports, beaches, forests, many species of migratory birds …
Fishing, bathing, walk, yatching, water-skiing for sure
The champagne bocage, its ponds, woods, meadows …
Churches made of wood, typically regional, museums
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Nature
Madagascar is well-known as real live-museum. Its nature is characterized by whole ecosystems sheltering very particular species, in which the endemism degree is 80% for fauna and 90% for the flora.
The figurehead of the flora is currently the Takhtajania, chosen as the emblem of Madagascar during the World’s Fair 2000 in Hanover.
This plant already existed 120 million years ago, and which rediscovery can let the botany make a giant step.
Nevertheless it will not make forget the 1000s varieties of orchids in the tropical forest, the worthy vegetation of a Jules Verne’s imagination in South bushes, the 7 varieties of baobab tree when only one for whole Africa or the thousand and one other imaginations of nature as carnivorous Népenthès whose valve is closed against the imprudent insect.
Concerning the Fauna, the lemurs are most representative of the island. Their size goes from nocturnal Microcebus as big as a mouse into Indri as tall as a little boy.
The chameleons are among most beautiful in the world, so as the butterflies which count the largest variety now known, and the Comet.
A through time travel would take us towards the Aepyornis which eggs of 8 litters capacity are still keep intact in the South, or even the dinosaur’s fossils which Madagascar’s deposit is admitted as among the eldest.
Settlement
Long ago before northern people "discover” the Indian Ocean and the Southern Pacific, daring navigators travelled regularly the roads of these vastnesses.
They travelled from North of Hawaii to the New Zealand in South, then from the Easter Island in the East to the African Coast in the West and stopover for some, or terminus for other in Madagascar.
Their boats were the alternatives of old pirogue that can be met today in those two oceans, mainly with fishermen Malagasy of Morondava and Nosy Be
Influxes of migrants crossing African’s Continents came, which explains why the language, the culture, the human types found in the Island is so familiar to both Asia’s and Africa’s. Madagascar played the crucible role in the centuries. From then appeared the great ethnic groups like the Sakalava “men of the small valley crossing the bigger one”, the Merina “men in the highland ", the Antandroy “men who live in the spines”, or the Antaimoro “men who live on the banks”.
Baobab - JB - 4 place de l’Eglise - 52100 Perthes - 03 25 04 04 54 - contact@baobab-jb.com
siret : 503 623 209 00015 - APE :5510Z