Country Info
- Antananarivo
- Capital
- Malagasy Franc (MGF)
- Currency
- 15,982,563
- Population
- MG
- Country Code
Antananarivo Slideshow
Antananarivo
Travel Blogs from Antananarivo, Madagascar
Anesthesia...Malagasy style
Day 2 at the clinic and we are pretty bored. John hung out at the kennels today, which might be pretty good, but only cause he speaks decent French. I probably should tell you that the main language besides Malagasy is French. Yes we all took 9 years of ...
The Madagascar Veterinary College
We arrived at the clinic to find a driver waiting for us to take us out into Tana (Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar) for the day. First on the list was another small animal clinic that was close by and again I was surprised by how well equipped the ...
Off to the Mine
... going on, there was a lot of good that the mine will give to the rainforest, its animals and the people of Madagascar…or hopefully anyways. We arrived at the mine around noon and after getting settled into our individual apartments, they weren't as ...
Off to the Vanilla Island...Madagascar!
... ahold of my card companies. The hangover this morning was something fierce though and lasted all day which sucked cause we flew to Madagascar. I don't know if I was sick from the alcohol, the Malaria pills I just started or if I had picked up a cold from ...
Last day at the mine
I woke up this morning feeling much better but still under the weather and definitely Nauseas (needless to say the gym has stopped which has been really depressing). I did however manage some PB toast and cereal, which was a nice change. We did a bunch ...
Sick...
... sick. But today we were suppose to be heading into the bush to do more Lemur tracking and when the hell will I ever be back in Madagascar, let alone tracking lemurs in the wild, so I manned up and went into the field with the boys. Well I didn’t ...
ESCAPE TO MADAGASCAR
Pictures from Hypertravel: 100 Countries in 2 Years (Backpackers' Guide to the World and the Soul) by Hardie Karges http://hyper-travel.blogspot.com/ ...
Tana, take two
Yesterday Matt and I had another day in Tana before heading out on our exploration of provincial Madagascar. We got up and took a taxi be (pronounced 'bay' - now I have the right spelling!) downtown which seemed like a much shorter ride than the one ...
Marooned in Madagascar
This morning as I was having a steaming cup of café au lait on the small outdoor terrace in front of the hotel, I heard an American coming down the stairs, speaking rather loudly (as we do compared to many other cultures), when he walked by me he said ...
Rainforest hiking and lemur tracking
... fun we needed to have our safety training. Luckily this isn't Canada or else it would have taken the entire week but here in Madagascar, 10minutes of a guy reading off a piece of paper and we are safety certified! If it makes you guys feel better we all ...
Privacy...it can't be beat!
... we are staying next door to the people who work in the American Embassy AND we are living in the best condominium in Madagascar, but I can totally believe this since this room has everything you could ever want. We ended up getting an invite to watch the ...
Day 1 at the Clinic
... but we got a tour of the clinic. Damn, this place is pretty sweet considering we are half way across the world in Madagascar. It is very well kept and has everything you would need, a small laboratory (far better then the blood smears in Khayelitsha), a ...
Lunch at Carlinas
... such good fun. We managed to get Philips card as he knows a fair amount about Mozambique and we are thinking about traveling there after Madagascar. He also owns a restaurant so he told us to give him a call when we fly into Jo-burg and he will have us ...
Made it to Madagascar
... be cleared. We were due to fly out of Maputo about 07.00 to Jo'burg for the 09.50 connection to Antananarivo (which in future I shall refer to by the common abbreviation of Tana - the other is too long to type each time!). So ...
Tana welcome
... friend's place in Tana. The villa in the standard for an expat with maid and driver, her recommendations and explanations of Madagascar’s context helped us very much to get introduced swiftly into our next three week’s environment. We got ...
Sechster Tag, zurück nach Tana
Lange Autofahrt auf der Nationalstrasse 2 nach Tana. Übernachtung im gleichen Hotel wie am ...
Explorer's Corner pictures
These are pictures taken by our guides: Sandra and Pierrre who run the Masoala ...
The Urban Jungle
Antananarivo, usually called Tana by those not so adept of tongue, is the capital of Madagascar. It is a mess of narrow, steep streets with an assortment of dwellings ranging from mainly non-descript concrete houses to the odd newly-constructed mansion. ...
I'm still here
... have access to high speed, wireless, 24 hours a day internet...when I home for a Christmas visit in December! I am still in Madagascar but will take a brief reprieve for a few weeks this holiday season. I believe the first few days will be spent ...
Christmas in Tana
Christmas in Tana means having a big breakfast at the salon de thé at hotel colbert which i had to regret for the rest of the day since i had eaten way too much, seeing the museum on top of the hill and of course buying some presents for the unfortunate ...
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 ...
Madagascar
... of lemurs (especially, Indri, the tallest one), birds species (falcons, parrots..), orchids... www.parcs-madagascar.com /mantadia/mantadia.htm * Tsimbazaza national zoo (Antananarivo), if you can't get out of Tana, it's a consolation. May be under ...