Travel Guide Andranoro

The rova of Queen Ranoro is surrounded by a beautiful landscape of rice fields and villages surrounded by rivers. A set of wooden houses, lacquered of red and white, is built according to the old classic architecture of Imerina. The buildings are integrated into a kind of clearing surrounded by rocks. It is necessary to take off one's shoes to respect one of the fady before entering the sanctuary and it is advisable, before the visit, to collect oneself to think of the queen Ranoro; then the main priestess addresses the rock where according to the story of the oral tradition, the queen, one day, disappeared.Once this is done, the visit to the different houses of worship can begin. According to the account that we collected from the guardian of the site, the queen had two husbands. One day, she came to the top of the rock that dominates the sanctuary to ask the spirits of the ancestors to make other rocky masses emerge from the ground, and on all sides the rocks emerged from the earth. No one knows what happened to the queen, her end remains a mystery. According to the guardian, having quarreled with one of her two husbands, she entered the cave between the rocks never to reappear.Access to the Rova ny masina Ranoro sy ny finakaviany (Rova of Queen Ranoro and her family) is affected by many fady, such as not bringing salty food or not wearing black clothes. Moreover, the site is closed on Tuesdays and even Thursdays: fady days. The janitor does not ask for anything, but a (modest) offering is customary.