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10-13-23 18:47 #5513
Posts: 535Jazzy
Thanks for the update. I arrive in a couple of days and was wondering just what the hell I was wandering into! No guarantee it will stay that way but good to hear. What the hell does one do if curfews are imposed? The whole point of going to Mada is being able to go out in the evening for a look around, a meal and some "attractive femmes"!
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10-13-23 08:49 #5512
Posts: 333Hotel LE Receive, Tulear
To me it was a exzellent place to stay. Very good value if not the best in Mada so far. Very good location.
Yes, the checked the ID very close and no inlet without on. I like the "confirmation" about fake ID, there was a article about it some weeks ago and the arestation of some French expats ho ended up officially prosecuted. Every place on earth has its law you have to follow accordingly, it is as simpel as that.
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10-13-23 08:15 #5511
Posts: 200Quiet night in Tana
Rolled in last night around 9 pm. Looks like the same as when I left. Girls standing alone or in groups on Independence, not much police / army present. This morning's walk to independence revealed more security forces on corners and in front of the government building, but other than that life proceeds as usual from my observations. People walking to work, vendors selling their wares, children begging for scraps nothing new. I did see a handful of quite attractive femmes, which is always a good sign.
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10-12-23 19:28 #5510
Posts: 1490Cheap
Originally Posted by Golfinho [View Original Post]
That's it. And I'm mongering now in Subsaharan Africa for more than 12 years. If you like to pay overpriced tourist accommodation. Go ahead. You have my blessing. LOL.
La Buse.
LE dreg of the world.
Who'll roam Africa to my last breathe.
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10-12-23 11:53 #5509
Posts: 1008Tulear, a hotbed for UA sex. Fake ID s are cheap like a cup of rice. Hotel LE Receive a famos meeting point. But many eyes watching the non french speaking Tourist. Once you are up in the room, the call to the gendarms will happen and later the zebu thieves will share the bribe money for your freedom with them.
Also, stroll along the dirty beach watching half naked girls after school swimming, a Gang of kids will pester you as their warehouse but without cashier. Don't even think to catch them running away in the sand with your valuables.
Its a pirate's bay.
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10-12-23 11:38 #5508
Posts: 2374Originally Posted by Neddy69 [View Original Post]
There is tourism, otherwise why are the planes full of older, somewhat affluent-looking French people, primarily couples? Because less than an hour away in both directions along the coast there is good-quality hostelry with European proprietors and of course European pricing. Anticipate 100 euros per day, much more actually as you would be taking meals there.
But to stay in dusty dead Tulear for three months you have to be someone who functions at the lowest level of human experience.
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10-11-23 06:44 #5507
Posts: 1490Tulear
I was down there 3 months from March to June. The place became more desperate over the years. The bit of tourism they had is now all but dead. There were lots of people sleeping rough in the streets. Refugees from the South and people from villages displaced by floods. I arrived with the first plane after the last major cyclone passed overhead. The totally drunken one which proceeded to hit Mozambique. People were using walls to p* and sh**t. All in all I spent 5 months in Tana and 3 months in Tulear. When I get around I'll write some more. But what to say. It is what it is. The best pussy on this planet. But. As I wrote countless times. Nothing for the US Eastern Seaboard warrior or Thai / Phillys Sextourist. Only for Ex Pirates Ex SOF Operators Ex Legionnaires Ex Organized crime members. I even met a genuine Taliban in Tana. And people know what they know, know that a brother of Bin Laden was killed trading gemstones in Ilakaka. Last genuine place for adventure on this planet. Except DRC.
LE dreg of the world.
La Buse.
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10-10-23 11:32 #5506
Posts: 2374Seeing the theatrics in Tulear over the weekend, strikers marching with their banners with gendarmerie blocking the boulevard. Neither side seemed know what to do. It was almost like a scripted show. Eventually the tear gas canisters are flying, kids running all over. Different from Tana where watching from the hotel seeing gendarmes and demonstrators beating each other with clubs and sticks.
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10-10-23 06:00 #5505
Posts: 14902023
Originally Posted by Golfinho [View Original Post]
La Buse.
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10-09-23 10:39 #5504
Posts: 535Aircraft
I was booked on one of those Embraer aircraft for a flight in 2 weeks to Diego. Last week they sent me a change (surprise). Flight is now 5 hours earlier and switched to an ATR72. Hope the tape doesn't fall off.
Jazzy, looking forward to your take on real time in Tana. I arrive next week.
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10-08-23 19:53 #5503
Posts: 2374Originally Posted by Neddy69 [View Original Post]
Two functioning aircraft at the moment. Don't plan making tight connections even more as per usual.
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10-08-23 10:14 #5502
Posts: 200NOS to TNR
Heading out Thursday night, so I'll report my observations on the current events unfolding in tana.
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10-08-23 09:56 #5501
Posts: 535Stop making sense
Just how do you expect me to make sense of things from thousands of miles away? You are the one apparently in Tulear right now but I am expected to understand the situation from another continent. And yes I will be contacting Tsaradia from abroad to get their take on it too! What is wrong with you? You seem to take a perverse delight in showing how well you know the ins and out of the country while denigrating anyone who doesn't have your financial wherewithal. At least the pirate supplies information and does not attempt to lord it over others less fortunate. Yes he has an acerbic bite. You prefer to get in a subtle jab with every post. Every post.
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10-08-23 06:56 #5500
Posts: 1490Air Madagascar
Originally Posted by Golfinho [View Original Post]
La Buse.
Tulear? I spent 3 months down there. Right a week after the last cyclone passed. Tulear? They're always talking of direct flights to South Africa. It's all bullshit. The Malagasy powers (Merina) to be only pay lip service. They don't want development. They don't want competition. They want to protect their permanently bankrupt national carrier.
Which Tulear Airport project? The airport hasn't changed since I landed there back in 2015 and now 2022. LOL.
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10-07-23 17:44 #5499
Posts: 2374Originally Posted by Neddy69 [View Original Post]
At any rate, the President was in Tulear last Spring celebrating completion of Tulear Airport project, which if you never been through airports here you mightn't know anything about it firsthand. He announced flights would soon be coming -- and from / to international destinations. Nothing yet, although the once weekly flight to RUN via Fort Dauphin is operating.