Antananarivo Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

Hi friends and family! Now that I'm living and working in the capitol, I should be much better at updating these blogs! Anyway, time gets away from me and a hectic work schedule keeps me busy. So, I'm trying to get some pictures from Christmas vacation uploaded here. I was lucky enough to escape the busy city and head south to visit Isalo Nation...

Our heroes were up at daybreak and headed straight for the Taxi-Brousse station. "We're celebrities- get us out of here!" Take us to Tana and to the fanciest joint in Madagascar - the Colbert Hotel! [or so the website had promised] But what an anti-climax. The room was horribly bland and our filthy heroes had to ask for shampoo! The hot water wa...

I'm not good at keeping in touch, or on-line journaling apparently. I try to avoid using the french keyboards as much as possible. Right now I am stuck in Tana, the capital. I was supposed to come for the weekend, to get the last in a series of vaccines. I flew in Friday with a return ticket home for Sunday. I'm never that excited to leave site,...

Today, the 24th was a sort of official introduction to Antananarivo. Patrick and Maminiaina came by mid morning and took me to visit some places of interest around the town as we continued to discuss church matters. We first drove to the Botanical and Zoological park of Tsimbazaza. We took about an hour to walk through the park where we saw exam...

hi fam, I tried to attach pictures, but it was taking a long time and I got tired of waiting for it to down load :( So I will send the memory card home since I got the new one in the mail!!!! We are in Tana now and it's nice to see Alannah and speak some English!!! We went to the bank and then mom host mom called and we met her downtown! It was ...

I'm in my beach town! I think I am one of the luckiest PCVs. I get to live in a big house, and can see the ocean from my bedroom. I'll try to post pictures this week. So far, the community is very welcoming and I have met some of the nicest people. I'm sure I will have difficulties and it won't always be easy, but considering some Peace Corps pl...

Just a note from Amy's Mom and Dad, We talked with Amy today and everything is going well. She is adjusting very well to life in Madagascar. She is staying with her host family, about a 15 minute walk from Antananarivo. She says it is a beautiful country and where she is right now is hilly like West Virginia. She went to a Lutheran Church today ...

On February 25, somewhere on the Kenyan savannah, the people and places I have yet to meet watched a luminescent full moon rise over the bush. Thirty-thousand feet above them, I awoke just in time to witness the same spectacle. My moon rose over Africa and I knew that the trip was on. Late that night I stepped foot onto the tarmac of Tana, the c...