Antsirabe, Madagascar Travel Blogs

Antsirabe
Apr 21, 2008 (9 photos)

... ' these are the Malagasy version of the rickshaws found in Asia. We saw hundreds of them lining the wide avenues of Antsirabe with not only people being transported but double beds, wardrobes, sacks of rice, bicycles the list is endless. We experienced one ...

Antsirabe
Apr 13, 2007 (46 photos)

Taxi-brousse to Antsirabe

Madagascar Encompassed
Jun 3, 2008

Hello Everyone! Sorry to have been so long to write.I a, here in mad and it is very complicqacted to write b/c the keyboard is allbackwards here. Very frustrAting. Mad is great and I a, safe. IM with my group and they are all neat. They are from sicily ...

Antsirabe
Aug 8, 2005 (7 photos)

... to it! We visited the beautiful Lake Trivatia where 2 lovers whose parents forbade them to marry jumped together to their deaths. Madagascar's very own Romeo and Juliet! The lake is a stunning emerald blue, surrounded by fur trees. We walked around it ...

famhidana
Oct 23, 2009

J ai eu de la chance. A peine arriver j apprends que se deroule une ceremonie de retournement des morts. J en profite aussi pour organise un tour organise vers la cote. Cela permet de partager les couts de 4*4 et de la pirogue.

I arrived
Mar 22, 2005

... can see. And the people, though extremely poor, are some of the most generous I've encountered in my life. Antsirabe looks much different than I remember. It's really progressed under the new government here. There are new shops and resturants geared ...

From Mauritius to Madagascar
Nov 14, 2007 (3 photos)

... got up bright and early yesterday morning and said goodbye to Mauritius, at last for a couple of weeks, and flew off to Antananarivo, Madagascar. We arrived in Tana, as it's called, in time for lunch and a walk in the afternoon sun. Our stay in Tana was ...

fourth entry
Apr 8, 2005

Hi! This morning I went with a local peace corps volunteer to the local association that takes in 15 homeless kids and feed another 30 (when they have enough money for food that is). They are so generous and I feel so lucky that my friend Josh put me in ...

Antsirabe
Apr 14, 2007 (12 photos)

Rented bikes

second entry
Mar 28, 2005

Hi everyone! It's easter monday here and everybody is mitsangasgana, which means "walking around". The town is very busy, everyone walking, though not to any particular place. I've decided to avoid the crowd and catch up on some e-mail! Work at the ...

SOUTHERN ROUTE
Feb 10, 2007

Actually had an enjoyable 4 hour ride in an uncrowded minibus(EG 15 instead of  23) from Antananarivo to Antsirabe.  The scenery was beautiful with rolling hills and rice paddies.   Arranging river trip tomorrow.

6 DAY RIVER TRIP AHEAD
Feb 10, 2007

Wonderful comfortable weather.  Just booked a 6 day river trip westward to the coast and the town of Morondava, therefore communication should be nil for awhile.  After that I will likely fly to Tulear.  Half the island cling to traditionql ...

Of Brousses and Pousses
Dec 27, 2007

... have to wait another two days to see him again. We're staying in the Diamont, the hotel where the PCVs always stay in Antsirabe, and it's interesting.  Caitlin and I decided to splurge on a $14 room instead of the fairly nasty $6 room, right below ...

Leaving Tana for greener pastures...!
Aug 25, 2006 (5 photos)

... -brousses, etc... Once in Antsirabe, we went to Joseph's shop where his crew works semi-precious / precious stones found in Madagascar; of course I was welcomed has any good "VAZA" (foreigner / tourist in Malagasy) to his place and automatically became ...

Route vers Antsirabe (RN7)
Sep 10, 2007 (12 photos)

... : vallées des hautes terres et rizières à perte de vue. Sur la route, nous visitons une fabrique de casseroles.  A Antsirabe, nous visitons un atelier de cornes de zébu, un atelier de miniatures et de broderie ainsi qu'une taillerie de pierres précieuses ...

Beggars
Apr 24, 2005

Lot's of street kids here. Don't walk in the street with food in your hand or you'll get all of them around you!

Antsirabe
Dec 9, 2008 (2 photos)

Already 2 days in Madagascar and i haven't seen anything yet so i decided to hire a driver in Andasibe in order the see more things in the short time that i have here.

Antsirabe
Dec 16, 2008 (2 photos)

Back again in Antsirabe, a nice city to hang out and recover from trekking through the national parks. many restauraunts and nice surroundings can be found here. Hotel Chez Billy - a good place to stay. Also i decided to go on travelling on my own again, ...

RN 7
Feb 22, 2007

la RN7 est la principale route de Mada, c'est aussi la plus touristique. Elle permet de rejoindre Tuléar en passant par Antsirabé, Ambositra, Fianar, Ambalovao et le Parc de l'Isalo. C'est donc sur cette route qu'on a le plus de chance de rencontrer des ...