Tulear
Travel Blogs from Tulear, Madagascar
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Isalo National Park
We hitched a lift back to Tulear with the hotel owner's elderly father. We had been considering some off road biking in the area but it looked a bit disappointing terrain wise so we abandoned it. Instead we went to Isalo national Park - 250km in a taxi, ...
Isalo, and the Joys of the Taxi-Brousse
... a small waterfall, surrounded by ferns and moss and palm trees. I imagined what it must have been like for Madagascar's first explorers, arriving parched and tired, expecting nothing but more grassland and craggy rock. They would have seen the presence ...
Chauve souris
J'ai gouté de la chauve souris comme déjeuner. Cela ressemble ā du ličvre, pour la viande et le gout des ailes plutôt a des champignons chinois. La chauve souris dégusté était de la roussette une chauve souris non protégée ā Madagascar. ...
We are still alive.....
Hello all, This will only be a short entry as this I am on the only computer at the hotel. We are in Tulear on the west coast of Madagascar. Gina and I both survived the treking and are doing well. We have seen many animals and are on our way ...
We continue our tour
... coua, Frances sparrow hawk, white headed vanga, madagascan green pigeon, sparrow hawk,long tailed ground roller,f, lafresnaye's vanga , madagascar hoopoe, and a very sleepy woolly lemur. Niri stakes his thong on a stick, and Dianne takes a dead-ant ...
Baobab
Det är söndag och mycket är stängt idag. Men jag hittar ett ställe som hyr ut fordon som är öppet. Jag hyr en quad och tar med mig Dahlia norrut igen mot Ifaty. På vägen ligger några andra pitoreska fiskebyar och stränder. Polisen eller ...
Safirriket
Resan fortsätter sydvästerut mot Toliara, söderns huvudstad. På vägen passerar vi genom safirriket. Huvudbyn för safirhandeln är Ilakaka där det köps och säljs safirer överallt längs med huvudgatan. I varje litet skjul tycks det ...
Ifaty
Jag säger adjö till min förare Aja, som gjort ett utmärkt jobb. Som en sista tjänst så skjutsar han mig till Ifaty, en fiskeby norr om Toliara. Vägen dit är ganska dålig. Grusväg med stora stenar och hål, ibland djup sand. Så är de flesta ...
Tulear
... as well and we found out it didn't even belong to air Madagascar but was temporarily rented by them as all of air Madagascar's other planes were broken.... Luckily Benjamin was at the airport in Tana to meet us. Long drive into town to ...
Four-Wheelers: Cause you gotta be tourists!
... all of you lol. We spoke with the lady who is hosting us this week, Leoni quickly about the animal situation and cruelty around Tulear but as she has a visiting Bishop we wont be able to speak with her in-depth until Friday…sooo she thought it was ...
Four-Wheelers, Sand-dunes & Scuba Diving!
... screw around dives with friends and Cory…well he’s never even tried I think so this was going to be an experience only Madagascar could offer you. We quickly got sized up for wet suits, masks and flippers and were off on the dingy to the reef. ...
Toliara - see I made it!
... more beautiful) and a short chat with a South African surfer in a group, who couldn't find a Madagascar tour guide anywhere in Port Elizabeth. Upon arrival in Tulear, we tried to work out taking the same boat transfer to Anakao, a beach resort town ...
Holy Toliara
Well today we left for Toliara down on the southwest coast of Madagascar. I have been looking forward to the water for quite a while now so anticipation is high. While in Toliara I will also get to visit with my new friend his holiness Bishop McTodd who ...
South-west Madagascar
... office. I looked at t-shirts at the expensive "baobab shop" (souvenir store for tourists). Stopped at the Air Madagascar office to confirm the flight back to Tana and they told me that everything was on time. Babba and I stopped ...
Malaria the second?
The plan was to spend the night here and leave tomorrow, but Manuel suddenly got a fever which rose within two hours to 39.2 degrees. We decided to find a doctor to check whether he was lucky enough to contract malaria for a second time. The highly ...
The Taxi-Bruuse Ride from Hell
... 8217;m just pissed we have to do it back to Tana). After leaving Tana, Monday afternoon at 3pm, we arrived on the coast in Tulear, just before noon. That’s right…19hrs on that damn thing and no you cant say you can imagine what that is like, ...
Sun, Sand, Sea and Sex?
... ". Day 14: Friday 7 Oct We set off at 10am this morning for the drive down the RN7 to Tulear on the southwest coast of Madagascar. The varied scenery in the dry southwest of the country comprised baobabs, cacti, and other plants and trees suited to the ...
Our Last Day in Paradise
... before we have started. So hopefully over the next year or two we can get another group of global vets to come to Madagascar and try to implement something, there are enough people here willing to help as long as we can bring some supplies and medical ...
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