La Varangue
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Venturing into the unknown
It was with some trepidation that we left the safety of our hotel for the Eastern taxi-brousse station, where we would strap our bikes and bags to its roof and squeeze ourselves into the tiny space we would occupy for the next 3-4 hours. We felt that we'd prepared ourselves well for this trip in terms of health (Steripen, extensive first aid kit, rabies shots, malaria tablets etc), self-sufficiency (tent, cooker etc), technology (Nomad 7 solar ...
MADagascar!
... a guide and an animal spotter was an incredible experience, plus we were lucky enough to see the very rare golden bamboo lemur, and in fact 6 out of the 7 types of lemur that we could have seen and a whole host of weird and wonderful creatures besides. We couldn’t help feeling that David Attenborough had slightly spoilt it for us though with his Madagascar series, as we had imagined lemurs in every tree and all sorts of animals to be found just by looking under ...
The Urban Jungle
... place pretty depressing as many of the animals were in tiny enclosures and were displaying signs of captivity and boredom, constantly pacing back and forth in their cages. A few species of lemur were lucky in that they were free to live on small islands surrounded by water. Two of the highlights that I did want to see weren't open or available. The aye-aye is probably Madagascar's strangest lemur - it has the teeth of a rodent, ears of a bat, tail of a fox and ...
Tana.. my favorite CITY thus far & Pat's Arrival
... hotel I decided to go and try my barganinig skills at a local shop. WEll again they wanted $150.. I managed to actually get them down to $25.. so I bought the dang thing. Now I have to figure out how to get it home. I knew that the Kenya post office would ship to the US for about $25 US so I had to figure out how to pack the item.
In the morning I managed to convince the local carpet dealer to give me the cardboard tube his carpet was rolled in.. ...
Privacy...it can't be beat!
... haha. Equally good news for everyone who worries about us, apparently we are in the safest compound on the island because 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 soccer game ...
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