Antananarivo, Madagascar Travel Blogs

I arrive in Madagascar!
Feb 10, 2008 (5 photos)

... using "non merci" another 3,764 times as I make my way around the entire downtown area in less than an hour.  Antananarivo is large but spread out and the downtown is very small and extremely run down.  Even the closed U.S. Embassy looks like it ...

Antananarivo
May 15, 2008 (3 photos)

Antananarivo 15th May 2008 We head back to Antananarivo for our last night in Madagascar. We said our thank you and goodbyes to Lova our trusty driver and checked back into the Sole Hotel again. We had a last afternoon of shopping, posting cards and ...

Till we meet again
Nov 30, 2007

Getting on and off the plane was painful with my knee. Luckily our Andry is waiting for us. Tomcat finds us a room with wireless internet, so I can catch up. The plan: for me to move at little as possible and hope nothing is severely ripped. ...

Meet: the lemur
Nov 18, 2007 (24 photos)

... not such a plain white rice lover. Anyway, next stop: the palace of the all-powerful king Andrianampoinimerina (and you thought Antananarivo was a tongue breaker). He had 12 wives of which only one was living with home: the queen. The others he visited ...

Madagascar: like nothing I have seen before
Nov 17, 2007 (12 photos)

It is after midnight by the time we land in Antananarivo. We knew we needed a visa and we came prepared with pass pictures we ... did not need. There is a big cue for the visa. A big cue for immigration and of course, we are pulled aside by security. No, ...

Hedonistic experience in Madagascar
Nov 19, 2007 (9 photos)

... selling stuff, carried on his head. Children are playing, no adults to watch them. Unfortunately, child prostitution is big here. Madagascar is trying to abandon sex tourism complete. I cannot conclude whether that is so good. Child abuse is of course no- ...

Tilly
Nov 11, 2007 (1 photos)

This is Tilly. She was the mate of my nephew Kris and nieces Annick and Elise. She had a long and very happy life, was just loved to bits, clear for anybody to see. When she got cancer and started suffering, my family helped her to sleep in, which ...

Our First Entry From Madagascar!!
Mar 3, 2006 (12 photos)

Hi everyone- We are currently staying in the Peace Corps "Meva" flophouse in Antananarivo. Wow- where do I start?? The past 2 weeks have been amazing. We arrived in the capital on Thursday, Feb. 16th. We took a small plane from S. Africa to ...

THIRD time is the charm!
Nov 16, 2007 (95 photos)

Hi all!  Ok, so this is my third attempt at writing an entry.....gotta love technology in a third wold country. I hope all is going well with everyone! I can't believe that it's already been a YEAR and a HALF on this crazy island.  Sorry that ...

Rice and Poverty in the Capital
Feb 27, 2005 (2 photos)

... faces more gaunt. There are more homeless people, especially children, and more visible health problems. It's all overwhelming, really. Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world, and the streets of Tana show clearly what that means. ...

36 Mile Bike Race, Work Project and Raising Ducks!
Oct 4, 2006 (25 photos)

... year has begun for some of you. One of the things that I thought I would really miss from home was the change of seasons, but Madagascar has it's own. We are moving out of the short rainy season, the mud is starting to dry up and the days are sunny with ...

Le Colbert
Apr 26, 2007 (5 photos)

... -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 ...

Back to Tana
Apr 18, 2007 (6 photos)

Long day in a taxi-brousse...

Update from Amy - Halloween
Oct 28, 2006 (8 photos)

(Update from Amy via email) Hello friends and family!!!! I am in Tana for our IST training while we have a week break from school for All Saints Day. Things are going really well at site. I teach 6eme, 4eme, and 2nde [which i am pretty sure that ...

First Report! (Email from Amy)
Jun 20, 2006

... it! We don't have much time to write, but I did already send a letter to you mom and pop and Jay and Mandy:) Madagascar is really crazy, amazing, hard, beautiful, poor, and NOT that cold! Compared to a Chicago winter, it's more like spring time weather. I ...

BVAWT013 - FMMI
Sep 17, 2008

FMMI - Antananarivo Airport

Air Mauritius
Oct 19, 2005

So I rocked up at the airport in Mauritius for my flight to Nairobi. More surprises, my flight is going via Antananarivo. My response was the same as yours - where the f#$@ is that?!?!?! Apparently it is the capital of Madagascar. Mauritius, being ...

Email From Amy (Uploaded by Brother J)
Sep 22, 2006

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 ...

And we're off!
Apr 11, 2007 (9 photos)

After losing our Swiss Army knife at customs, we realised exactly how prepared we were for this trip...

Back to Tana
Aug 15, 2005 (5 photos)

... to Ambohimanga, the original capital of the Merina royal family. The view from the rock is amazing. Our last day in Madagascar was shopping day! We brought pretty much everything we possibly could. Unfortunately there were no lemurs for sale! We went ...

Things are A-OK.
Jul 2, 2006

... 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 ...

more Mad-pictures
Jan 26, 2009 (5 photos)

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 ...

Enfin
Oct 21, 2009

... le gendarme, et il me dit de retourner en France car il ne s occupe que des résidents français et qu il y en a 20 000 a Madagascar et qu il reçoive 60 000 personnes chaque année au consulat donc ils ont autres choses a faire que de s occuper des touristes..

Island Hopping...
Jun 2, 2006 (6 photos)

Island Hopping...

Antananarivo
Apr 11, 2007 (1 photos)

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Finally Saw Lemurs! Almost Finished Training!
Apr 8, 2006

It is Saturday April 8th and we took a trip to the Capital for lunch , internet and the grocery store! We are beginning week 8 of training and are almost finished! Three weeks from now we will be in our own home in Anosibe an'Ala!!! Time is flying by ...

Misy vaovao! (that means:There is news!)
Apr 19, 2008

Hey all!  So, misy vaovao! (which means "there is news!" in Malagasy....kinda like saying, "Hey, guess what's up!") I am coming home for 1 month in July!!! Oh, and I'm extending my service here in M-car so that I'll be staying another year :) Crazy ...

future world or back in time?
Jan 28, 2007 (30 photos)

... to Tana last night, leaving them with a two day drive to get home(merci, vous ettes les plus jauntils mecs en madagascar!)  I started  my trip staying at a beautiful old restored bungalow in Tana and ended by staying in the ghetto.  ...

Our Home in Anosibe An'Ala
May 2, 2006

... in life (cookies and pie) excite us!! We said goodbyes to our PCV friends last Thursday and all headed our own ways across Madagascar. Saturday we spent our first night in our new home in Anosibe An'Ala! It is so beautiful here, primary rainforests, a ...

FINISHING OFF MADAGASCAR
Mar 3, 2007

... ;     & ;nbs p;      After that it was simply a matter of getting back to Antananarivo as painlessly as possible.  It wasn't that painless eg a 4 and a half hour wait for the taxi-brousse to fill ...