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Background: Formerly an independent kingdom, Madagascar became a French colony in 1896, but regained its independence in 1960. During 1992-93, free presidential and National Assembly elections were held, ending 17 years of single-party rule. In 1997, in the second presidential race, Didier RATSIRAKA, the leader during the 1970s and 1980s, was returned to the presidency. The 2001 presidential election was contested between the followers of Didier RATSIRAKA and Marc RAVALOMANANA, nearly causing secession of half of the country. In April 2002, the High Constitutional Court announced RAVALOMANANA the winner.

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By Rach queen of the lemurs
July 28th 2007

more of the night in the forest and my marathon! Africa » Madagascar

hey everyone. hope everyone is well. confused where i am upto with telling you things, but we had a good night in the forest with the malagasy guys teching us how to dance and showing us there music. then wer taught them how to play cards. its really cool how much of a laugh you can have even with language barriers. after this night we came back to town again yesterday and had a day of wandering round the town which is very interesting. then we signed up for the marathon which i did this morning! i did 5km mostly running [View Full Entry]

By Rach queen of the lemurs
July 27th 2007

first night in morondava Africa » Madagascar

hey everyone so after i updated you yesterday we headed off to the forest. my luagge is due to arrive on saturday so i borrowed a tent and a sleeping bag. so we set off in the 4 by 4 (which is diffinately needed!) along a dirt track, beautiful red sand but with lots of pot holes. it took us 2 hours to get to the camp but xas amazing getting there and i dont think i will get tired off that trip even if i do doze off from time to time. the scenery is amazng with forest on either [View Full Entry]

By nenous
June 26th 2007

Z'oreilles on Vacation Africa » Madagascar

The Coastline

No, we are not in Madagascar but when I tried to enter Reunion Island travelblog did not recognize it and therefore I had to go with the next closest place. The fact that a well used travelblog site doesn't know about Reunion says a lot about how far away we are from everything! Imagine a small volcanic island in the middle of the Indian Ocean not far from the Tropic of Capricorn with a circumference of 200 km. On this island there are over 200 microclimates created by the various elevations that make up this tropical paradise. In only one [View Full Entry]

By Jooly
May 15th 2007

Taolagnaro Africa » Madagascar

I'm back with another installment of Julie's Adventures in Mada, loyal readers! This edition finds your plucky heroine in Fort Dauphin. Well, not that plucky, to be fair, because after hearing ever worse reports of how bad the taxi brousse journey from Toliara to Fort Dauphin is currently (latest report: five days solid of playing sardines, I kid you not, for a 400km journey), I decided for the sake of my already tenous grip on sanity to splash out on a flight. The ticket was €85, which was certainly pushing it a bit, but I was due to meet Clare and [View Full Entry]

By Jooly
May 10th 2007

Filling in the blanks Africa » Madagascar

I feel I haven't really done justice to Toliara and Ifaty in my descriptions so far - they aren't quite as dull as it might have seemed from my rather brief entry. I guess there's more to tell. For instance, one of the biggest villages between Toliara and Ifaty has a name - which unfortunately I don't recall - that directly translates as 'Bubbles', which I find kind of cute. Mangily, the more heavily touristed beach-side village under an hour's walk from Ifaty, translates as 'Itchy', possibly a reference to the effects of a walk through the nearby spiny forest. Both [View Full Entry]

By Jooly
May 10th 2007

On a lighter note Africa » Madagascar

You might be pleased to hear I've cheered up a bit since this morning. I went for a nice meal - salad gourmand at Chez Bernique, with nice cheese and a sort of coarse paté that tastes a bit like christmas, and fresh salad veg, which is generally lacking from malagasy food (generally rice or frites with some kind of meat and not a vegetable to be seen), with a really nice glass of unsweetened passion fruit juice - I think it may even have had a teeny bit of salt in it - which was very refreshing. Much better that [View Full Entry]

By Jooly
May 5th 2007

Me again Africa » Madagascar

Time for an update - I last left you sitting in Momo's bar in Ranohira. There are worse places to wait, so I'm sure you will excuse my lack of updates in the last week and a half. Apologies, however, that since I am recounting such a long period my recollection will necessarily be a little less sharp. (Edit - longer than that - I wrote about half of this when I arrived in Toliara, but the electricity went before I published it, so I'm updating after an absence of quite a few weeks. Sorry!) Anyway... Momo's bar, French couples. The [View Full Entry]

By satch
May 2nd 2007

Mid phase break woohoo!! Africa » Madagascar

Um cant really think of what specifically to talk about in this little postie as I am so mindnumbingly bored having sat here for the last 45 mins waiting for this and my hotmail to load. Camp life is awesome!! My home is in a little hut (i say hut but really I mean some bits of wood with a tin roof and tarp walls... and comfy comfy coral and rocks for a floor. Mmmhmm! Couldnt think of anything better ;). Spent the first couple of weeks getting into the swing of camp life, doing various lectures on the sea creaturese [View Full Entry]

By Joey Eakins
April 24th 2007

One year almost complete Africa » Madagascar

My Town From Hill
Me and my friend walked to the highest hill and took some photos. This is my town

One year almost complete Africa » Madagascar By Joey Eakins April 24th 2007 Joey Eakins Okay all, I know I have gotten behind on my journals and email but I really am not up to writing right now. I am still really enjoying my time here but not feeling like putting it on paper. I know i will regret it back in the states but hey that's okay. I have almost completed my first year of volunteering. I am ge [View Full Entry]

By Jooly
April 6th 2007

Through Purgatory! Africa » Madagascar

Transcribed from my notes written at Chez Momo on the 6th: This is more like it. Getting here was a trial, but worth it. I was loaded onto the taxi brousse to Ilakaka via Ranohira at 4pm as promised. I waited as a chicken was tied to the seat in front of mine, and watched its futile bids for freedom with a degree of sympathy. I winced as not one, nor two, but four toddlers were loaded onto the minibus with their respective mothers. The last time I had had any caffeine had been a small cup of weak instant coffee [View Full Entry]

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