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12-09-19 12:30 #3698
Posts: 1479Originally Posted by NmExpert [View Original Post]
Have fun in rainy season.
La Buse.
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12-09-19 11:27 #3697
Posts: 644Originally Posted by ChrisP [View Original Post]
Trip.
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12-08-19 12:55 #3696
Posts: 499Originally Posted by Neddy69 [View Original Post]
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12-08-19 12:54 #3695
Posts: 237Originally Posted by Neddy69 [View Original Post]
The guy was walking streets in a Slum of isotry antananarivo with a backpack containing laptop and camera. His other stuff he left in first class hotel in Tana.
1. why you visiting slums?
2. why you visiting slums with camera / laptop?
So the solution is not to be in this situation in the first place http://www.midi-madagasikara.mg/a-la...inois-tabasse/.
La buse.
Who's arriving next week to Toliara for two month in Mad.
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12-08-19 11:16 #3694
Posts: 1479Tana. Armed robberies
Originally Posted by ChrisP [View Original Post]
These are very recent newspaper clippings...
La Buse
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12-07-19 23:58 #3693
Posts: 104120 hours to travel 100 miles. Violent armed robberies. Medieval plague, cholera, syphilis and much more. Call me a pampered westerner but I'm thinking more and more of just staying put in Nosy Be next summer!
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12-07-19 20:58 #3692
Posts: 1479Measels
Originally Posted by Albert9989 [View Original Post]
La Buse.
Unimaginable in the 21st century. Fuck all these so called do gooders like the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. All they do throw billions at the pharmaceutical Industry. Makes me throw up!
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12-07-19 14:35 #3691
Posts: 499Originally Posted by Neddy69 [View Original Post]
But. Pneumonic plague, this let you 24 to 72 hours before death. So depending where you are, you must urge to find the treament. Once you notice that you are infected.
That's also Mada's nice gifts.
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12-07-19 11:04 #3690
Posts: 1479No plague
Originally Posted by Albert9989 [View Original Post]
La Buse.
My risk assessment is. The biggest danger in Africa is the traffic.
https://www.who.int/csr/don/27-novem...madagascar/en/
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12-07-19 10:35 #3689
Posts: 499Originally Posted by Neddy69 [View Original Post]
But I didn't heard about this year.
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12-07-19 10:26 #3688
Posts: 1479Lepers
Originally Posted by Amadeuss [View Original Post]
In fact I just donated some change to a begging leper on the roadside. His hands were only stumps.
La Buse.
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12-06-19 18:48 #3687
Posts: 1479Adventure
Originally Posted by TailPipe [View Original Post]
A German I know was robbed in Tana by his taxidriver and a second guy... Was a recommendation of the hotel LOL... Inside job. Another guy I know was robbed at gunpoint when the taxi stuck in traffic. they took off with his luggage....
In Africa the bad guys melt away at dawn. I'd probably would have stayed put at the train station until dawn. Difficult decision.
La Buse.
I had a similar party girl in Morondave. Make no mistake some of these chicks are hard partiers. But you call the shots. They get one THB GM and that's it. Here in Antsirabe the chicas operate in pairs. You also pay a drink for the friend. But only one. And as a courtesy I when I took a girl of the two the other asks politely for the frais pousse home. 2000 AR. Don't feel bad. I am partial to chics in 10 cm Hot pants too. As long as it doesn't break the bank. Let others do the laundry though. .
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12-06-19 18:07 #3686
Posts: 130Manakara
There are 3 available classes on the train to Makara. 1st class tourists and 1st & 2nd class Malagasy. Tickets are 70 k one way. Reservations can be made in the station of Fianar or Manakara. Non residents are obliged to sit in 1st class vaza. You get the best view if tou take a seat on the left side of the train. Trains leave Fianar at 7:00 in the morning tuesdays and saturdays and leave in the opposite direction from Manakara the next day at 7:00 wednesdays and sundays.
The distance is about 180 km. The train charges / discharges every 10 km at a station so no need to bring food along. You have enough time to buy food from the vendors. A big bottle of water will do. Comfortable ride but it can get hot. These trains originally rode a track in the Swiss mountains. In India every wagon is fitted with 20 ventilators, here none. When you go to the toilet you will see a small area designated for police and railway workers. Try to make friends with them so you can sit there. They have the slide doors open at both sides so the area gets naturally ventilated and you get an amazing view.
The train broke down a couple of times. After 20 hours journey we arrive in Manakara at 3:00 in the morning.
Pousse drivers are playing it hard here. It's 3:00 am and they know your exhausted and need a pousse. I originally got quoted 15 k to bring me to be beach (Hotel Delice Annex). I negotiated 2000. (Residents pay 1000-1500).
We are cycling to the beach and it's pitch black outside. I see a non moving vehicle at 150 meters, torches flashing and people talking. I'm a bit tense I thought we where cycling towards a police check point. A man flashes his torch into my direction. I believe he's a police man. When we get closer I realize he's a Frenchman who sat with us on the train. He has a hole in his forehead and he's bleeding profusely.
He and his wife got caught in an ambush minutes before I arrived there. They got attacked by 3 guys wielding battons. The pousse drivers left their pousses behind and did a runner leaving the couple at the mercy of their attackers.
The beach is about 1,5 km from the city center. To get there you have to cross a bridge. It's a deserted area nobody lives there. Just before the bridge there is a ramp forcing traffic to slow down. It's 3:30 in the morning. It's the ideal time and place for a robbery.
Normally you would show empathy towards the victims but I was worried about my own safety. This had happened minutes before I arrived. These guys where still around and I needed to get to my hotel. I felt vulnerable. A pousse isn't a taxi you can't close the doors.
I met the couple the next day. Both of them needed medical attention. He has no clothing left, nothing.
According to locals this does not happen often but it is the second time this year.
I was sleeping at Hotel Delice Annex 80 k. You get a view of the Pangalane canal but overpriced to my opinion and I don't want cross that bridge at night. You're also cut off from the main village.
The next day I moved to Hotel Delice in the actual city of Manakara. This is some of the best budget accommodation I have seen in Madagascar. Rooms from 25 k to 50 k. I took a room for 50 k but even the rooms of 25 k are value / money. I didn't have the feeling I lowered myself to Neanderthal level by sleeping here.
Hotel Delice also has an excellent budget restaurant. Ask for the 'plats du jour'. I had fresh fish with sauce and rice for 8 k and duck with rice for 9 k.
Another good budget restaurant is LE Poulet. I ate a 300 gram Zebu steak with fried potatoes for 8 k.
For breakfast I went to the Hotel Noor (awful rooms). 2 fried eggs for 1500 AR and tea with milk for 1000. You do have to buy your own bread at the cornershop, 400 AR for half a baguette.
Neddy asked if I'm a local. I'm as vaza as you can get and sometimes I make mistakes. It happened when I was enjoying my afternoon tea at the restaurant of Hotel Noor. A bit a crappy place but their tea is excellent and you have a view of the locals buying fresh fish. Then I saw her. A small 100 m runner wearing a miniature jeans about 10 cm long LOL. I couldn't stop smiling. She had noticed but she was with family. I lost sight of her and thought: that's it then. Suddenly she was sitting at my table. We chatted a little and I asked for her number. She proposes to go for a drink later that evening. Big mistake of mine. These so called 'amateurs' can be worse than the majority of the pros. But I thought she was an amateur wasn't she? So I foolishly didn't smell a rat.
She hit the jackpot and we where going to go out in grand style. Sisters joined the table and enjoyed the fruits of the horn of plenty. We are not talking about huge sums but I consider it to be disrespectful. She was getting pissed. On the way back home she starts manhandling the pousse driver. She starts fighting him. A police man has to drag her away from him. Add to all this the playing, manipulation, dishonesty, fake sex and more she was a disaster in the making. As I had asked her early in the night if she could do my washing I was stuck with her a second night. The next day she wanted me to go and eat at her parents place. I politely declined. I know it's safer not to 'wine and dine' them but it still should, one way or another, be possible to go for a drink with a girl.
Didn't do any other mongering around here. Did hear from an Englishman there where some SW's standing in front of hotel Sidi as NMexpert has mentioned in a previous report.
Many thanks.
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12-06-19 14:52 #3685
Posts: 979Originally Posted by Neddy69 [View Original Post]
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An outbreak of syphilis has prompted the government in Madagascar to declare a state of emergency in the southern town of Fort Dauphin. Ongoing tests suggest that about 17,000 people, or 30% of the region's sexually active population, may have the sexually transmitted disease. An economic boom linked to local mining projects has attracted prostitutes and international mine workers.
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Ok, it was in 2007. But with the treatment they got, there are leftovers.
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12-05-19 16:31 #3684
Posts: 644Originally Posted by GabrielSilva [View Original Post]