Antananarivo Hotels - Reviews and Rates

There is a great little bungalow on the beach in Fort Dauphin owned by Brett (telephone 0330 221 265 or email dadamanga@live.com), which is amazing. It's teh guest house of a private home of an Australian who has lived in Madagascar for ten years and can advise you on all your tours), right on the beach (with private stairs leading to beach), an...

Friday found me waking at a very bracing 6am and i thought i would head out for a wander aroud the streets of the Haute-Ville where i am staying. Even at that time the streets were bustling and the temperature was up. I wandered aimlessly for an hour or so observing the city waking up and a very different rush-hour to the kind i am used to back ...

We arrived in Antananarivo, Madagascar on June 08 th, 2005 from Bangkok, Thailand . The main focus for this trip in Madagascar was on ruby and sapphire, but we had also an interest in other gemstones such as spinel, tsavorite, and alexandrite. We traveled extensively in Madagascar first to the south, visiting mines near Ansirabe and Ilakaka driv...

After losing our Swiss Army knife at customs, we realised exactly how prepared we were for this trip...

Took a scenic train, delayed over 6 hours in departing, to the east coast town of Marakana where it rains 50 percent of the time. The ride was scenic while the sun was up eg rolling hills, rugged mountains; terraced rice paddies and waterfalls. In Marakana found out it was on the edge of a cyclone and so I left the next day by rented minibus for...

(Here's an email we received from Amy early on Monday:) Hi! I made it! We don't have much time to write, but I did already send a letter to you mom and pop and Jay and Mandy:) Madagascar is really crazy, amazing, hard, beautiful, poor, and NOT that cold! Compared to a Chicago winter, it's more like spring time weather. I am doing well....althoug...