Country Info
- Antananarivo
- Capital
- Malagasy Franc (MGF)
- Currency
- 15,982,563
- Population
- MG
- Country Code
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Madagascar
Travel Blogs from Madagascar
Surviving the Rainforest
Hello everyone! As hopefully you have guessed we landed safely in Tana and have since been up to much in this country. We stayed our first night in a hotel in Tana and were able to do some important things like plan transportation and the rest of our ...
Preparing for a jungle Xmas
Hi all, So my time with Blue Ventures has come to an end. It has been a long fun six weeks full of lots of highs and, of course, the occasional low. I am now officially a divemaster, have mastered my coral identification and can tell my ...
Life in the 261
things are going well. My class that gives me a hard time is still giving me a hard time. I sent my first student to the servion, the man who is in charge of punishments, on Friday. She was eating in class and I know that kids would never dare do that ...
arrived safe and sound
Warning: the following entry was typed on a Malagasy keyboard ( not QWERTY) and so please forgive me for the huge amount of typos that will no doubt follow Well I have arrived and, i must say, suprisingly easily. After an uneventful flight ( which i ...
Sahambavy Tea Plantation
... Had quite an amazing day yesterday. To celebrate Karen's birthday we took the only section of working train line in Madagascar to the Sahambavy Tea Plantations and then hiked through some of the rainforest corridor. The train was a specially ...
Day 14 - Perinet
Today we headed for Akamasoa, a project run by P?re Pedro and his team. 17 years ago he came to Madagascar and saw all the families living on a rubbish tip outside the capital city. Appalled by this state of affairs, he returned determined to change ...
Ambositra World of Woodcarvings
The drive to Ambositra (pronounce: Ombushd) is very calm and much more comfortable on the tarmac. Much later I learn that the country's progress actually happens in the Island’s interior where the good roads, the few industry and the rank and well ...
Look down, back up.Where are you?You're on a boat!
... mixed with containers and passengers, taxi touts and itinerant sales people and the impressively corroded pier all screamed Africa and Madagascar in loud and definite terms. The first view of our vessel, the Salama Djema, also failed to inspire ...
Of Nocturnal lemurs and Corrugated rocks
... . We are going to be travelling by 4X4 on a dirt road and there has been a washout. To us a major! But this is Madagascar and nearly all the roads are dirt. We were delayed a while, so shopped for some Malagasy sarongs and National day ...
Madagascar
... , flora and dauna adapted to the environoment incuding lemurs, bats and Nile crocodiles o Tsaratanana Massif (2874 m), highest in Madagascar o "Baie des Francais" (The sugar loaf) - second most beautiful and biggest bay in the ...
Baobabs and Pirogues
Morondava is a nice city on the westcoast from where you can take a pirogue to several cities along the coast or just go for a visit to the famous Baobab trees on the Avenue du ...
Madagascar
"Il en faut peu pour être heureux" - Le livre de la jungle OST [Baloo] Il en faut peu pour être heureux Vraiment très peu pour être heureux Il faut se satisfaire du nécessaire Un peu d'eau fraîche et de verdure Que nous prodigue la ...
Back to Tana and end of trip thoughts
... unethical methods. It really left an unsavoury taste in my mouth. Poverty was very in-your-face, with many beggars. Madagascar is, I suppose, a relatively cheap country, but for the individual traveller, maybe not so much. I chose to travel independently ...