Baobab Alley
Madagascar’s Baobab Alley is probably the most recognizable place in the whole country. Sadly, local children have been spoiled by tourists. The children have figured out a long time ago westerners want to take their...
Read MorePosted by Sarit Reizin | May 27, 2009 | Africa, ITKT Blogs, Madagascar |
Madagascar’s Baobab Alley is probably the most recognizable place in the whole country. Sadly, local children have been spoiled by tourists. The children have figured out a long time ago westerners want to take their...
Read MorePosted by Sarit Reizin | May 26, 2009 | Africa, ITKT Blogs, Madagascar |
Ah, the taxi-brousse, the punishment I must endure for being able to see Madagascar’s marvels on nobody’s but my own schedule and trying to absorb, though not suffocate in, the local culture all at the same time. I...
Read MorePosted by Sarit Reizin | May 25, 2009 | Africa, ITKT Blogs, Madagascar |
Madagascar is probably what most third-world countries used to be like before the millionth sunburned tourist demonstrated the locals what fat cash-cows first world travelers can be, thus ruining it for the rest of us who just...
Read MorePosted by Sarit Reizin | May 19, 2009 | Africa, ITKT Blogs, Madagascar |
Though Madagascar’s tropical forests and highlands belong to its lemurs and other natural treasures, the coasts are full of other primates: French men with the gorgeous Malagasy girls draped on them. The local bars belong...
Read MorePosted by Sarit Reizin | May 15, 2009 | Africa, ITKT Blogs, Madagascar |
If Dracula ever had a pet lemur it would have been the aye-aye. Nocturnal, with long teeth and long bony fingers- its most prominent feature, this is one lemur one would be least likely to want to cuddle. The creature is...
Read MorePosted by Sarit Reizin | May 14, 2009 | Africa, ITKT Blogs, Madagascar |
If you’ve got money you’ll travel Madagascar by plane getting a bird’s eye view of the rectangular patches of rice fields in all possible shades of green. If you wish to see what’s in between the...
Read MorePosted by Sarit Reizin | May 13, 2009 | Africa, ITKT Blogs, Madagascar |
Everybody comes to Madagascar for the lemurs. Cute and fluffy, they give acrobatic performances most mornings, unless it rains, and even include in their newborn that cling tightly across their middle like little furry corsets....
Read MorePosted by Sarit Reizin | May 12, 2009 | Africa, ITKT Blogs, Madagascar |
Having arrived to Antanarivo late at night, I figured it was useless to go find a place to spend the night only to get up at the break of dawn to pile up into a dusty taxi-brousse and drive endlessly to our first destination....
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