Madagascar

[Tinte]

Perhaps that's why they are so crazy about it. Down the ladder is WhatsApp next to SMS.

With a actual clue about Mada and its girls you won't need that at all.

[Kako123]

Yes they are crazy about facebook in Madagascar!!

Seems you don't have any clue what you are talking about or you never been Madagascar! If you saying Madagascar girls is not active on facebook!!

[Pokeris]

Start to look for local university pages and groups. You add some girls from there, then Facebook will suggest a few more, and you'll connect with friends of friends. But in Africa you don't need Facebook. Facebook is good for Colombia, because girls are very active on Facebook there.

Seems you don't have any clue what you are talking about or you never been Madagascar! If you saying Madagascar girls is not active on facebook!!

[Incrociatore]

First you need add some mada girls as your friends or just find girls profiles from mada go to their friend list look the other girls profies you like and send friend reguest for them and start to chat. It take time to make your own list with girls but it worth it!! Look I share photo with some girls names from madagascar so you can start from it and create your own list slowly.

Start to look for local university pages and groups. You add some girls from there, then Facebook will suggest a few more, and you'll connect with friends of friends. But in Africa you don't need Facebook. Facebook is good for Colombia, because girls are very active on Facebook there.

[Pokeris]

Visited BMOI bank in Nosy Be (Hellville) and saw a new sign on the ATM that it now accepts MasterCard. So I attempted to withdraw 800.000ar with my MasterCard, and it worked. The machine dispensed 40 bills of 20.000ar in a single transaction.

When I returned to Ambatoaloka, I tried again with my MasterCard at the BMOI machine. It also worked.

Very convenient. No longer need to travel to LeaderPrice (MCB bank) for MasterCard withdrawals.

I tried today BNI cash machine the one close to djembe disco at nosybe today seems they start accepting mastercard again after 2-3 years gap but the problem they introduce 12 k charge on the top which is written on screen before you accept it. Exchange rate was perfect for mastercard its much better which I am getting from BMOI cash machine with my other visa card. Mastercard gives better exchange rates when visa most of the times. Its good news BMOi start accepting mastercard I even didint notice it and was using visa card instead. Will try after few days the one near pharmacy at ambatoaloka and will look what exchange rate I am getting. If you still at nosybe give me a shout I will stay here till after Christmas.

[ChocolateHuntr]

Visited BMOI bank in Nosy Be (Hellville) and saw a new sign on the ATM that it now accepts MasterCard. So I attempted to withdraw 800.000ar with my MasterCard, and it worked. The machine dispensed 40 bills of 20.000ar in a single transaction.

When I returned to Ambatoaloka, I tried again with my MasterCard at the BMOI machine. It also worked.

Very convenient. No longer need to travel to LeaderPrice (MCB bank) for MasterCard withdrawals.

[Neddy69]

By and large a good report. Except. I'd NEVER WALK 3 am in the morning. You can be robbed in any town in Madagascar. Never walk on foot. Of course the roads are deserted. Even the police locks themselves in after 10 pm. Only because nothing happened to you doesn't mean it's safe. I never walk on foot after 9 pm. Take a posse or taxi or tuktuk.

La Buse.

[Neddy69]

Now I am going back for another month. I am hesitating between Tamatave (Toamasina) and Mahaganga (Majunga). Consideration:

- Food.

- Cost of accommodation (my budget is 25 usd / night).

- Cost of transportation (velo pousse or only taxi?

- Girls.

- Weather.

I heard good things about Mahaganga, but the weather now is 35 degree and 90% humidity! Not great.

Actually I prefer the mountains, but I don't think there is much more for me to see there.

Any andvice? Also looking for tip on which hotel to stay at in these towns.

You have the choice. Tamatave is of course cooler as is the whole east coast. But. It also has the highest precipitation in all Madagascar. Expect rains and lots of it. Mahajanga is stifling hot. Mafan Be. I'd only visit between April and September. The best place to spend Cyclone / rain season is actually Antananarivo. Take your pick.

La Buse.

[DanielDuran]

Now I am going back for another month. I am hesitating between Tamatave (Toamasina) and Mahaganga (Majunga). Consideration:

- Food.

- Cost of accommodation (my budget is 25 usd / night).

- Cost of transportation (velo pousse or only taxi?

- Girls.

- Weather.

I heard good things about Mahaganga, but the weather now is 35 degree and 90% humidity! Not great.

Actually I prefer the mountains, but I don't think there is much more for me to see there.

Any andvice? Also looking for tip on which hotel to stay at in these towns.

[DanielDuran]

2 month traveling solo, here are some thoughts and tips.

1. Money: Citibank master card withdrawals were free at MCB and Access Bank. Costed 9500 AR at SocGen. Did not work at BNI.

2. Phone:

2.1. If you are going to stay for some time, you need Telma AND Orange (if your phone is dual sim). This is because you need Telma because everybody has Telma, and you need Orange if you want (weaker network but) faster data. Now you will ask me: how does weaker network goes with faster data? The problem with Telma is not the network strength, but too many people using. Orange on the other hand does not have that problem.

2.2. Install the apps, make life much easier. For Telma: "Telma & Moi" and for Orange: "Orange Money" then select Madagascar once in the app.

2.3. 4 G is basically everywhere. And while decent hotel usually have fiber, they use cheap / weak rooter, and the wifi in the room might not be good.

3. Security: After reading on this forum and listening to people around me I got the impression that Madagascar is a dangerous place and you need to be very careful. Now let me explain: it all depends where you are!

3.1. Tana (short name for Antananarivo): It definitely is dangerous. I met 15 girls, they all tell me stories about how they got attacked (local girls) with knives to cut of their handbag and run with it. Many people have 2 phones: a dumb phone in case they get attacked or to show in public and a smart phone well hidden. You should not walk in the night. In the day it is fine but be alert of your surroundings, don't stop in the street or on a bench.

3.2. Tamatave and Maganga: I have not been there, so I can only relate what I heard from locals: less bad than Tana (by a lot I think), but you still need to be carefull.

3.3. Morondava and all the towns along the National 7 highway (Antsirabe, Ambusitra, Fianaratsoa, Tulear): this is a totally different ball game! Super safe, go partying, at 3 am decide to go home walking, streets are dark and empty, nothing will ever happen to you. The dream really. You can sit in public and will never be bothered. Honestly for me this was a gamechanger, providing ability to get girls in the street, and hence I spend all my time on the N7 and morondava. This also allows you to see the 2 jewels of Madagascar: Isalo and Tsingy.

3.4. The road outside cities: Clearly cars and busses don't want to be alone on the roads after dark. I saw cars and busses wait 1 h just to travel in big groups, and once I got the army to give my bus an escort. What is the change that something will happen high? Very low, but something happened once 2 years ago, and now people don't want to risk it. Local are pretty risk averse and security conscious (must be their Asian genes).

4. Food: First of all, Madagascar is not at all like Africa. French influence is huge here and food is delicious everywhere and all the time. Did I get sick? Of course, twice from undercooked meat. I never got sick from ice in drinks or from vegetables. Only uncooked meat (medium rear). Given the prices, I ate in the best restaurant I could find in each town I went (some of them high end, some of them basic). Best restaurant I ate at:

4.1. Tana: Sakamanga.

4.2. Antsirabe: Entre 2 mer, Valahala caf, chez Dom, Contero.

4.3. Ambositra: nothing much to note there.

4.4. Fionaratsoa: The restaurant of the Zomatel hotel.

4.5. Morondava: Bleu soleil.

5. Electricity: Power cuts are common in Tana, and some other place but: inexisistant in Antsirabe and most other cities along the N7. Why? I think there is hydroelectric power generation nearby and hence they rely less on Jirama (the local electricity company). Note: when power cuts, most hotel have generators, and 4 G never ever stops!

6. Transportation: This is not well documented, but there are a number of company running professional bus services (departure on time, reserved seats, and security first). Cotise is the most famous (and Nation wide), but there are many others (I used Soatrans on the N7). They are easy to use, either go to their office to book a ticket or call them and pay using Orange Money or Mvola (Telma). You can book 2 seats if you want more space, I often did that for my long legs and by backpack.

7. Hotels:
- Never book online, always call them. It's always cheaper. They don't asked for payment, just your name. Super easy.
- I travelled with 2 laptops and 2 phones, and never got anything stolen. Most of the time I would keep cash in my backpack and leave it in the room with a lock on it.
- I read recommendation to always lock your door when you are in your room. This is a good tip, especially in Tana.
- Hotels in Tana had security: they take a copy of your passport and check IDs of girls and take copy. Hotels outside Tana had none of that: none of them ever asked to see my passport and never checked girls IDs.
- Bringing 2 girls in your rooms: no big deals.
- Airbnbs are significantly more expensive than hotels (especially when booked direct by phone). Also, I truly enjoyed all the help I got from receptions, in term of knowing which bus to take, what was safe and what was not, sometimes even where to find girls. None of them seemed judgmental regarding the girls (3 a day made they smile and laugh).

8. Guides: most places that are good to visit have compulsory guide. The fees are really high, and the guide only gets about 30% of the fee you pay. A few tips:

8.1. In some places the guide fee is actually negotiable (Isalo's 175 k went down to 100 k because I was alone).

8.2. Most guides are bad and not so nice. When you go to the guide office, they will assign you the next guide in the queue (they all get a number every morning) but you can actually request any available guide. My tips is: always choose your guide yourself. How? First of all if there are any women, go for that (#promote women). If not, chat with a few and see how you get along. After you choose your guide, you basically make him skip the whole queue, he will be grateful and nicer already. Last: focus on younger ones.

8.3. Tell the guide you hope to get laid in the night, and he will bring you to karaoke or set you up.

9. Condoms:
Durex: good and expensive.
Plez: cheap and shit. Honestly, those are not properly lubricated and break super easy.
Soft: cheap and good, especially they have a "soft space" that is wider and longer (15 k for 12 condoms in pharmacy).

10. HIV tests: I think not too difficult to find, but I did not do any. I went to clinic onces, but no test on Sundays. In Mada, everything is closed on Sundays!

11. Poverty and chocolate:

11.1. I found Madagascar a lot less poor than expected (based on GDP / capita figures). I struggle to find many people that lack food or homes. Of course, there are a lot of homeless in Tana, but a lot less than in San Francisco. When I met people who seems poor (like girls selling Yaourt in the street) I often ask what they eat. The Answer was always Rice, then I would ask "rice with what? Answer: Fish, Beef or Chicken, it depends. .

11.2. At least in the place I went I did not see a single person who seemed suffering from malnutrition.

11.3. The reason for the disconnect is the "self-sustaining economy": if you get up in the morning and go carve the mountain to get stone and build yourself a house, and then for lunch you eat your own duck and for dinner you go get a fish in the river, and collect some rice and veggies on your land: you generate 0 GDP. And there is a lot of that in Madagascar, while there is none of that in Europe, and in big cities in general.

11.4. While poor girls might eat beef and fish every day, they don't eat chocolate (Robert is the local brand, cost around 1 USD per 75 gr tablet). Every girl I had in my room looked at the chocolate on the table and asked for a piece! Just make sure you are well stocked up.


12. And finally the best for the end: Girls: Tana: a lot has been written here but to summarize:
- Manson (up the street from Sakamanga, and yes you can walk that street even in the night): 100% hookers. Asking 100 k, will settle for 60 k, but then will ask for 15 k for taxi (which is true cost 15 k and is expensive for locals).
- Taxi be: same but 65% hookers.
- Kudeta: 0% hookers.
- Tinder: you will find MANY girls there, some for money and fun, some girls for serious relationships, etc. All kinds. But all of them have a decent smartphone and most of them are looking for foreigners which are good starting points.
- Facebook of course is possible, but I am not good at this and it take more time, because not all girls are open / available.

13. And finally the best for the end: Girls: Everywhere else I went (Morondava, National 7 towns, and small villages):
- Everywhere has Karaoke (more active in the week end than on Monday night) and that is a great way to meet people. I say people, but you are as likely to get laid if you meet guys than girls. This is because in Madagascar sex is normal, no big deal and easy going. So if you make some local guy friend, when they ask if you are looking for girls, say yes. They will call some friends, and introduce you. Also, in these small cities / villages, everybody knows everybody: so they will also intro you to the girl at the table next to yours with who you have been exchanging smiles for the past 15 minutes. Where are those Karaoke? Ask the velo-pousse / pousse pousse / taxi. Don't be shy.
- The Street! You walk in the street, you walk slowly, you pass by a girl you like, you smile at her. If she smiles back (35% of the time), after you crossed her you slow down and look back and smile, she will do the same. At this point you stop and walk towards her, she will immediately stop and wait for you. You say Hi, how is your day, 2-3 minutes no more. Then take your phone and present it to her for her to put her number in. Deal is done. I got at least 5 girls like that all the way from poor to rich.
- There are also street hookers, some good experience and some bad:
1. Antsirabe: in front of Diamond hotel (across the street) after 7 pm. Low end hookers, who agreed 30 k so quickly that I knew the price must be 15 k. Honestly, you can do better than that. These are cheap trash.
2. Ambositra: in google map type: "fert / cap Malagasy". There are street bars there with girls drinking. Feels a lot less like hookers, but all of them will go home with you. The girl I took home did not even talk money until I said: 30 k, ok? She just said "sure". She was nice and sweet and kissed really well. Spend the night and was happy.
3. Fianaratsoa: mostly normal girls who need money, they walk around in the center (from Ave du general Leclerc in front of Soratel walk towards Madagascar hotel, then alliance francaise then in front of zomatel, then back down towards Vannie hotel). If you see a girl a 10 pm walking alone, she is looking for money. Now these were not hard core hookers, so they can be shy and you actually need to go and talk to them. But the streets are dead empty at night, so at least no one looks at you.
4. In smaller places like Ranohira (next to Isalo) or Bekopaka (next to Tsingy) your best bet is to ask your guide and he will set you up with a local girl who he knows needs money.

- The. Social economic classes: I dated / fucked all the way from richest of the city, to super poor, and the best is middle class. Why? The poors have fucked up theeths and don't taste so great (neither the mouth or the vagina). And after you spend a nice night with a hot babe, it is never great to a message saying "send me money, I am sick". The rich eat to much and are too fat for my taste. The middle class speak French (or sometimes English) and it is nice to talk also, as to learn about local culture. With middle class, you are more likely to get a message like "this was fun last night, let's do that again? How to identify middle class: look at teeth, shoes and nails.

E. Sexual practices:
- Of course Anal sex is rare, but not too rare (2 in 20, but for both of them it was the first time, so clearly not something locals do).
- Annal rimming happened to me a lot. Usually, I do it first and then see if the girl does it to me. Many did.
- I do oral sex on every girls I sleep with (ie make them cum by licking their vagina / clitoris, before fucking them). For most of them, it was the first time, hence also not something that locals do. Most of them truly enjoyed, I could see on their face "ho my god it is happening to me". Some of them did not want and said it is "taboo", but after insisting a little, they loved it too.
- There are no vibros in Madagascar. Apparently Vibro imports are not allowed. So take some with you. I did not meet many girls who wanted to try, but the ones who did wanted to keep it.
- Most girls will do raw. Some of them have never seen a condom and don't fully know about the benefits. I had girls who were afraid to have penetrative sex because they were afraid to have baby, and did not understand that it won't happen with condoms.
- Shower before sex is common. Most girls don't have hot water or raining shower in their home, so they will enjoy their time in your shower. Don't be surprised if their shower lasts 10 minutes, just go with them in the shower.
- Most girls are fully shaved.

8. All guys are cut. So if you are not, that might surprise the girl a little.

9. All girls suck row. None of them (out of around 20) could properly deeptrought. But all of them were ok with facefucking and cumming in their mouth. None of them swallowed (except 1, kind of).

10. Threesome: well it is very easy to get 2 girls in your bed and fuck both, but for me that is not a 3 some. Finding 2 girls that want to sleep with each other, that is a 3 some. Totally possible, but require proactive asking.

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12. Problems: none of them tried to steal anything from me, none of them made any problem. Some of them ask for tips or taxi money. Many did not ask for money at all and were surprised and grateful when I gave. My standard for gifts (ie were price was not agreed beforehand) was 40 k. Most seemed very happy with that.

13. Language: as it has been said you will have a lot more fun if you speak French, but many poors don't and more and more people are trying English also.

14. Culture: so so so French. The way Malagash raise their kids! Ho my god, so French! Even people who can't speak French can sing French songs. There is only Malagash (40%) and French (40%) music here. The remaining is very small: 10% African, 10% English.

Overall Madagascar is super fun, and very safe (outside Tana and highways).

[Oschino2]

Nice and chill spot for a few days, I enjoyed it but definitely BYOP. Almost no selection on the ground.

[BurnMax2007]

I was walking in Ambatoloaka just before dusk and I was pleased and relieved to see L,e Taxi Be and Bar Afro open again and serving alcohol, so it seems that things are back to normal. Without the bars open in Ambatoloaka and without many young Malagasy women there at night, the place feels like a retirement community in France.

[BurnMax2007]

Voting for the presidential election occurred on Thursday, November 16,2023. Wednesday night before election day, LE Taxi Be and Bar Afro on Walking Street in Ambatoloaka closed up just before 0 h because there is a ban on selling alcohol during the presidential election and they were still closed the night of the election, although Zeburger restaurant and a few other restaurants have remained open. I enjoy the lively nighttime atmosphere of Walking Street in Ambatoloaka but when LE Taxi Be and Bar Afro are closed, there are no longer many people walking on Walking Street and the ratio of French senior citizens to attractive young Malagasy women is much higher, the complete reverse of a normal night when the attractive young Malagasy women far outnumber the French senior citizens.

Since I enjoy watching all of the attractive young Malagasy women on Walking Street and I have no desire to look at French senior citizens, I hope that LE Taxi Be and Bar Afro open back up soon. Hopefully LE Taxi Be and Bar Afro will open Friday night so that the nightlife will resume back to normal. I spoke to someone last night who thinks those bars may open Friday night since voting for the election is over but the alcohol ban may also remain in effect until after all of the votes are counted. Madagascar seems to have a history of riots, civil unrest, curfews, etc around the time of elections as do many other African countries. For someone who enjoys an active nightlife, it might be best to avoid Madagascar during the time around a presidential election.

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[Tinte]

In „LE glacier" THB out of the tea pot.

They say we have a new on.

[Neddy69]

There is a curfew in Tana at 2100 tonight.

If you're an American I recommend enrolling in STEP now.

Apparently they postponed the election for a week. That is today. My friends wrote yesterday. It was supposed to be a week ago on the 9th. That's why there's a curfew on today. The opposition wants to get rid of the DJ. Normal procedure. How did he come to power? He ousted someone. So he might be ousted as well. Suspense. Suspense.

Read:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67426287

La Buse.

Who finds that elections are never a good time to visit. LOL.