Le Renala Morondava

... in the back of this pickup with benches along the sides and rice bags for additional seats in the middle. It was a less than comfortable 6 hour ride through beautiful terrain featuring incredible numbers of baobab trees. Until I get my film processed, look up some photos of baobabs and you'll understand why I find them so remarkable. That day ended with a ferry ride, crammed full of people and assorted baggage until it was barely afloat. That ...

... classes and advertised our desire to do a homestay, and chatted with some young Malagasy people. We were offered a place in the bed of one of the younger guys, but we will see if anybody comes up with another offer to take us into their home when we return to Majunga... We had decided that our first destination in Madagascar would be the Parc National Des Tsingy De Bemaraha since it just sounded so awesome and we figured we ...

... of resembles a line, get called at random to bring our bags towards the counter, open our bags for a few seconds of airport personnel groping around in the interior, and then finally we hand our bags over and get a handwritten boarding pass with no seat assignment. When we put our carry on bags through the x-ray conveyor, the security folks were convinced that I had a syringe in my bag. What? It did give me an ...

... paddled for over 4 hours to a small village, averaging 5 kilometers an hour on the fast flowing orange-brownish river Tsingy. In our first village I was a very popular "WHITE TIGER" with my hand tricks(ask Pat) and my LCD screen on my camcorder. Had an interesting incident when I turned down a request to visit a man's restaurant, he started ...

... time, the first few hours of the adventure were a good opportunity to see parts of the Highlands I hadn't seen before. Although the Haut Plateau is all quite similar in its festive colour scheme of green and red, I couldn't get bored looking at its hills and earthslides, rivers and spiky vegetation. At Antsirabe, the bus turned onto Route 34 to Miandrivazo, actually still a fairly good road. Disembarking for a stretch of the legs, a ...