 While near peak intensity, Bondo passed just south of Agaléga island, before weakening slightly and moving through the Farquhar Group of islands belonging to the Seychelles, becoming the strongest cyclone to affect that island group in decades.Bondo turned southwestward and weakened, followed by re-intensification as it neared the northern tip of Madagascar.Bondo paralleled the coast briefly before it made landfall near Mahajanga on December 25.