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Île Sainte-Marie, aye the old pirate haunt off Madagascar. A strip of green bone and rum-soaked ghosts. You step off the boat and the air already smells like salt, sweat and somebody’s last bad decision. Back in the day they say pirates ran this joint like a tavern without walls. You can still see the gravestones, crooked and cracked, like old teeth in a drunken smile. Real pirates buried here, not the Disney kind. Locals’ll take you out in rickety boats to see the coral and the wrecks, if you tip right and don’t act like an ass. The beaches are too perfect, the rum is cheap and the mosquitoes come at you like tax collectors. But hell, it’s beautiful. A place where time forgot to finish the job. I got bit, sunburned, half pickled and didn’t want to leave. That’s how you know it’s good.