Antsirabe
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Antsirabe
... call of 'pousse pousse' every time we walked into town. We hit the road and headed off to do a circuit of the lakes around Antsirabe. The first one we arrived at was set into the crater of a dormant volcano about 20kms away (7kms of which was tarmac road ...
Madagascar Encompassed
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 ...
Antsirabe
... 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 ...
I arrived
... as you 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 ...
From Mauritius to Madagascar
... We 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 ...
famhidana
J'ai eu de la chance. A peine arrivé, j'apprends que se déroule une cérémonie de retournement des morts. J'en profite aussi pour organiser un tour vers la côte. Cela permet de partager les coűts de 4*4 et de la pirogue. ...
fourth entry
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 ...
second entry
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
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 ...
6 DAY RIVER TRIP AHEAD
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 ...
Of Brousses and Pousses
... 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...!
... -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)
... : vallées des hautes terres et rizičres ŕ 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 ...
Den makalösa indrin
... Aja sätter oss i Mercedesbussen och far tillbaks mot Tana för att ta vägen söderut. Nästa stopp blir Antsirabe för en övernattning. Mycket tegelstenar tillverkas runt Tana, längs med vattendrag och risodlingar. Överallt ser man tegeltravar och ...
Beggars
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 ...
Antsirabe Three Horse Beer (THB)
... . Higher poverty, kids below age ten working on the fields. Very little vegetation visible, no trees. I remember a friend’s saying that Madagascar once was the green island, now it’s the red one. The soil is deep red, probably the base layer, ...
Antsirabe
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 ...
Nothing really
Here we stopped another time, so that we don't have to make the whole route between tulear and Tana at once. This town was not more spectacular than the first night we spent here on the way south, except for some insane people that followed us throught ...
Antsirabe
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
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 ...
Why can't anything be EASY!
... of course that is only $1500 USD but its fun to have in your hands. Finally we pay Albert, get my flight from Air Madagascar after a massive wait and off for our final arrangements we go. so we meet our driver Dessey and our little Puegot car ...
Day 3 - Antisrabe
This morning we stopped at another Queen's Palace to get a splendid view of the city before leaving Tana to head for Antisrabe. Outside the city, there are the same groups of red clay houses, but the hillsides are crowded with paddy fields. Mamy says ...
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