Madagascar - Antananarivo

Our trip to Mada got off to a most propitious start; our tickets said check-in was at 9:30 and the flight at 11:30, arrival in Antananarivo (hereafter "Tana") at 12:15. Our plane left an hour late, and instead of the posted 45 minutes, the flight took 1 hr and 45 mins. However, as we flew over the delta around Majunga (Mahajanga), with its startling graphic array of reds and greens, we were no longer thinking of the tardiness. There were only 26 or so passengers aboard (capacity 60+), so we bounced freely from window to window snapping pics. 

The patchwork-craziness of the rice paddies also charmed us, as did the toy-like villages of red mud walls and thatch roofs...


(forgive the fuzziness: altitude, dirty plane windows and all that...)



 

At the airport, we were met by T, a friend of an acquaintance, because we had kilos and kilos of vermicelli and sugar for her. She negotiated the taxi fare for the three of us, and we set off to her room at Antananarivo University. We hadn't gone more than a few kilometers when the taxi stopped for gas. At the station, I caught sight of a transvestite (sadly didn't photograph him adjusting the tissue paper in his bra). 

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At the hotel, we made arrangements to leave early the next morning for Antsirabe to begin the adventure leg of our trip. And my, what an adventure it was...

 

 

Just call me Blithe, Blithely Accepting

 Or, "Conversations with a Sickpea." Taking a page from frigg 's book, here is a convo the two of us just had on chat:

moi: I think that now that the packing is out of the way, I should (first clean my house) buckle down and try to get a first draft of this story down before our world trip

Elle: your life is so interesting

moi: it is? *thinks maybe frigg  has just read latest post on Madagascar*

Elle: How many people could write a sentence like that! :D 

moi: lol

Elle: Oh yeah, very nonchalant.

moi: yeah, cleaning house is very unique. :P

Elle: I'll just clean the house, write a little and then go on a world trip. :D

moi. :D  well, when you put it that way