Mitsamiouli

The northern tip of Grande Comore holds the best beaches in the country and the diving that goes with them. Trou du Prophète is a sheltered white cove behind a lava headland and is the island's signature picture. Galawa beach next to it is broad and empty, and the reef offshore is the best known dive site in the archipelago. Lac Salé is a green crater lake a few minutes inland that people stop at on the way. The big resort that once ran this coast has stood derelict since the nineties and nothing replaced it.