Chez Maggie Hotel Morondava

Back to the capital after an epic journey to the Parc National de Tsingy de Bemahara. Note that the word "tsingy" is pronounced "chingy", which is also the name of one of the worst rap stars of recent years. Remember "Right Thurr?" It's best if you don't. Anyways, what are the tsingy and why the hell did we travel for 5 days across the country to get there? I asked myself the second question a few times during the journey there as we tested the ...

Rose and I have been in Madagascar for almost two weeks now and I am really loving it. This is a country that I will return to with more time (and money!) and is quickly becoming one of my favorite places in the world. We started our journey here by flying into Mahajanga on the western coast. Majunga (for short) is a lovely city with wide sprawling streets that are surprisingly clean, pousse-pousse drivers competing for your attention ...

Right now, Marta is sitting next to me and uploading some photos on her blog. You should go over to martaj and check it out, as I am old fashioned and use a camera that doesn't even need a battery. So, we made it to Madagascar! And it only took an hour to fly here, not four days and nights of misery by boat. The only thing that people rush about around here is getting on transportation - for some reason, that's the ...

Have arrived in Morondava on the west coast of Madagascar after a ( day adventure from Antsirabe with my guide, Jose, and his assistant, Teena. The first day was spent waiting ' hours for a taxi-brousse(minibus) to leave Antsirabe and then it was a 5 hour trip to our semi-launching port, Mahindrava. Then it was a short trip up the river to ...

My friends were approaching with trepidation the day we would spend sitting on a taxi-brousse (bush taxi) between Antananarivo (Tana), Madagascar's capital, and Morondava, base for the famous Avenue de Baobabs. I was just excited. Tired, yes, having got up at 2am to get the bus to Tana, but excited nonetheless. Perhaps the lack of sleep was playing tricks with my mind, but as we got to the station, I couldn't help but think this was going ...