Country Info
- Antananarivo
- Capital
- Malagasy Franc (MGF)
- Currency
- 15,982,563
- Population
- MG
- Country Code
Antananarivo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Antananarivo, Madagascar
Of tougher days
... still unknown. Hypotheses have been made, but nothing quite fits. Bets are being put on a parasitic cerebral tapeworm that is common in Madagascar. But of course you can’t run scans on a little boy in seizures, and the blood work has to be sent out ...
TGIF Baby
I woke up this morning ever so slightly hung over and turned to my clock to read 8:30 am. Thus began the debate. Until what time would breakfast be served - aka when would I lose my chance at coffee and baguette, my new morning ritual? So I dragged my ...
Madagaskars Ostkueste
Nach Besuch einer Croc Farm treffe ich meinen australischen Freund Dennis am Flughafen von Antananarivo; am naechsten Tag gehts mit einem Taxi Brousse ( meist voellig ueberladenes Buschtaxi) ueber Moramanga nach Andasibe. Dort campen wir im Mitsinjo ...
THIRD time is the charm!
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 ...
The long and winding road to Antananarivo
After a 8 hour journey by private taxi we arrived back in Antananarivo, this time deciding to stay near the airport in a place called Ivato. We checked into our guesthouse Tonga Soa which means welcome in Malagasy, and our host Ninah was very welcoming ...
Madagascar, primeiras impressões
... de 4 dias per capita nos Estados Unidos. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Siga nossos passos: Joanesburgo - Antananarivo: voos diários da SAA de ida e de volta (também há voos ...
Update from Amy - Halloween
(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)
... 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. ...
Email From Amy (Uploaded by Brother J)
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 ...
Things are A-OK.
... 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 ...
more Mad-pictures
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 ...
Jessica's Letter from Mid-November
11/12/03 I love this place. I love the cows and chickens in the yards, I love the gorgeous rice paddies, I love my little schoolhouse where 3 other volunteers and I have language lessons 8 hours a day, and I love my ingenious, generous, and patient ...
Arriving in Tana
... , all words end in vowels here, and the last vowel is never pronounced. Ironically, an exception to this rule is the word "Madagascar": the island gets its name from Marco Polo, who confused the island (which, incidentally, he never came to see) with ...
life these days
... life post-trip. basically, it stinks. i spent the past month visiting the most gorgeous, luxurious parts of central and northern madagascar, eating gourmet food, hugging my family, and speaking in english about life in the US. it was wonderful, and i ...
moving in tomorrow!!!
hello everyone! I'm in my banking town for a couple of days, shopping and doing business=type stuff, before moving to my site (tomorrow!) (again, if you want to know the names of these places and don't yet, email my mom at sfgordon93@hotmail.com) ...
Letter to parents
Dear Mom and Dad, Happy Hanukkah! The last week has been really crazy. Over the weekend, we went to Andasibe, a national park near Tana with the largest living lemurs, called indri. They're about 4 feet tall when standing and make gorgeous, ...
site visit!!!
Hi; everyone!!! I*m in the city that my mom referred to in the last entry that*s 20 k from my site: The location that she posted for that entry; though; is not the name of my site but the town where i was when i talked to her: sadly; i can*t post the ...
do i know you?
... in touch with a friend here (not sure how i*ll do this, but willing to try.) i also received emails from 2 former pcvs in madagascar, one of whom had a site near mine and one of whom was the first volunteer at my site back in 2000, saying that they had ...
Letter to sister, Jennifer
So it's more than a month since staging started now, though it feels like about 6 months. I find out my site today, which is soooo exciting! In other news: Malagasy people have a tradition of giving "gifts of the road," or souvenirs after even ...
so much to say
... whole time for patronizing. though the lecture was quite unnecessary, we loved it. it was like having our own dads transported to madagascar for a little while, and we told themis so. he then invited us back for dinner with his family the next night. ...
Letter to Grandpa
Dear Grandpa, Hello! I hope you're doing well. It's been a little over a month since I returned from Australia, and I'm back into the swing of life here. I'm again settled into my house, my friendships, and my routines - so well settled, in ...
a real starvation diet
my week so far has been a real rough one. last thursday i met a mother with a 9-pound two year-old - absolutely the most horrifying malnutrition i've seen here. i learned that the woman's husband left her and she has three other kids, ages 3, 6, and ...
post=IST
... effective but free. Tubal ligation, vasectomy, and Norplant are provided at my site by the NGO Marie Stopes and are rare in Madagascar.) I'm in Tana all weekend and then will be traveling all over the center and north of the country with my family. ...
i'm still alive!
... contradictions to all his points. I hope to see y'all in 2006, but I might just have to stay in Madagascar if W's got 4 more years. ***** And now, some legalese: The opinions expressed and experiences described in this travelogue are those ...
Midnight Holdup
It’s near midnight and we’re meandering down a dark deserted alleyway in search of a taxi home. The first one we found in front of the restaurant wouldn’t budge on the price, and neither would we. So in our wine-bolstered bravado the ...
A recycled city
A disposable economy, it is not. Here in the developing world of Madagascar, recycling is taken to a whole new level. When one is used to a mentality of ‘once used - toss it’, you notice the quirks of life in Tana rather quickly. Paper ...
sighs of relief/news/easter
... a new environment volunteer south of here. when i was in tana, i met with the director of habitat for humanity in madagascar, a fabulous american man who was very encouraging about us working together to house the homeless people at my site. my next ...
ho hum
Yes, I*m back in my banking town for the day but just have time for a fairly short update. The two noteworthy things since I last wrote were Valentine*s Day and personal injury (and no, they were not related :c) I expeced Valentine*s Day to be kind ...
Letter from mid-December
12-8-03 At the moment, I'm having such mixed emotions about this place. I'm sitting on my window sill watching my adorable, fantastic 10-year-old sister Hasina and her friends play jacks with rocks they found in the yard. About 5 boys, ages 4-10, ...
foaming at the mouth
so: bisky's autopsy came back positive for rabies. this means that i and anyone else who had contact with him need 5 rabies shots over the course of a month so we don't get the fatal, incurable disease. for some people this is no problem: the four ...