Downtown Antanarivo with the main marketplace. The architecture had an interesting French colonial flare to it.
This is the row of barber shacks. Haircuts cost about 50 cents & were very professional.
One of the common spiders which looks too small in this picture. They were all over Madagascar.
The castle and a "Malagasy" palm at sunset.
Taken out of the bus window on the way to Andasibe.
Andasibe
I never figured out why they dried clothes on fields. The clothes stank afterward!
Some of the many rice paddies in the highlands.
This guy is catching an avocado in his basket.
The first pousse-pousse ride I took. I swore it would be my last, but it wasn't. The guy was about half my size running me around the city.
Miandravazo Market
Pirogues are hollowed out tree trunks, and are the most common form of river transport.
French baguettes were the form of bread (thanks to the French, but the Malagasy never got it quite the same as the French).
A school near where we stayed in Miandravazo.
An official helping us get the permit for the boat trip.
Our captain Sulu on the left
Captain Sulu managed to find a chameleon for us!
This picture doesn't do it justice, but this was a beautiful waterfall we had lunch and a swim at along the pirogue trip.
My advice to everyone - even if a beach looks safe and clean and you are under a mosquito net, never! sleep in a sleeping bag directly on the sand. The picture doesn't do it justice or show the other side of my arm, but I counted on this arm just from my elbow to my wrist I had 130 sandfly bites! Itchy!
Note his weapon of choice.
Zebu cart ride to the next village
This is where the villagers were most curious about seeing someone from another planet.
She loved seeing pictures of herself which I showed her on the digital display.
A famed Malagasy tomb.
View from our room Belo sur Tsiribihina
The innkeeper in Belo sur Tsiribihina
There are a variety of boats at sea - Morondava.
Here's where I hitched a ride to t he baobabs in a military truck loaded with sugar, tires and guns.
Allee de Baobab - nearish Morondava
Malagasy children love posing for pictures.
The baobabs are ginormous!
Flat tire on the taxi bus. It wasn't the last flat either.
These people got their laundry up on fences. Ambositra
The food stalls were so small - Malagasy size.
A typical taxi stand. Ambalavao
Getting cattle together for the big zebu market. Ambalavao
Ambalavao marketplace
This gentleman who looks very nice and humble was actually very friendly and very drunk. He evidently partied too much at the zebu market.
Nearby villages drove their cattle in for the market.
A rice paddy on the way to Andringtra.
Barely made it back from the hike before dark - good thing the guide knew where he was going!
Normally pictures are taken of children, and these two elders loved having their picture taken.
A village within the national park. The rice grinding going on in the background is tough work!
Along the train ride from Fianar to Manakara
There were a lot of poinsettia in Madagascar
It wasn't too much later that the train broke down for 6 or so hours in the rain.
Our train broke down and we wandered out to some huts.
Ranomafana
Again with clothes drying on fields!
This was the most interesting orchid I saw in Madagascar. The orchid season is during the rainy season Jan-Feb, so I guess I was lucky.
Ille Ste Marie
Lots of nice beach! And coconuts!
The owner of the bungalows had a few lemurs loose on his property.
The view from where we were staying
