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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 ellieltb
December 6th 2007

Still in Tulear Africa » Madagascar

Numero sept Thursday 6h December 2007 Tulear - Chez Lala - still! 17:00 (UK) / 20:00 (Madagascar) I thought today I would write about my reflections on Tulear. I have spent nearly a week here now and a lot of things have changed from 4 years ago. A lot of things still remain the same: 1. Walking in the street - I had completely forgotten about this but here it is so difficult to just walk down the street. It was the same before. As you walk along ‘Pus pus’ drivers come out of nowhere, people on bike hurtle towards you, [View Full Entry]

By ellieltb
December 5th 2007

Ode to the lychee Africa » Madagascar

Numero 6 Wednesday 5th December 2007 Tulear - Chez Lala 17:43 (UK) / 20:43 (Madagascar) Today has been a computer intense day; 8am until now (with Lychee breaks). Working in this heat my brain is feeling too exhausted to write much, my eyes feel slightly crossed - I hope they’re not. But anyways I thought I’d write about lychees today; I like them a lot and I’ve been thinking about them a bit- not the most commonly thought about fruit I bet, so I thought I’d give them a thought or two. I like lychees - now possibly more than grapes, [View Full Entry]

By ADnMAZ
December 4th 2007

Notes from the big island Africa » Madagascar » Antananarivo

Action Maz
Grand Tsingy

So here we are. Mango town. We have never seen so many mangoes in one place. Ever. On the trees, strewn all over the floor. Mangoes are eaten for breakfast & lunch, the after-school game was throwing mangoes at the mango tree and eating the fallen mangoes and dinner was.... Mangoes! Raay! Inevitably it stank of fermenting fruit. The local bin men were obviously on strike or something. Following the river trip, the second half of the tour was a visit to the Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park in western Madagascar. The journey there was quite nice - initially driving along [View Full Entry]

By ellieltb
December 4th 2007

Tana to Tulear Africa » Madagascar

Numero trois Sunday 1st December 2007 Tulear - Chez Lala 13:42 (UK) / 16:42 (Madagascar) Oh my goodness it is hot. Really hot. Tulear may be only 500km south of Tana, but it is also at sea level and thus it is 10 degrees warmer - approaching 40ºC! At least there is little humidity, making this a walk in the park compared to my trip to Goa. The last two days have been slow. My brain and body are finding it hard to adapt; from being on full on the accelerator since August I have been forced to stop because everything [View Full Entry]

By ellieltb
December 4th 2007

Another tulear day Africa » Madagascar

Numero cinq Tuesday 4th December 2007 Tulear - Chez Lala 15:24 (UK) / 18:24 (Madagascar) I am just writing this quickly before I go to meet Vola - BVCO’s site coordinator until last week. Despite working on the project together from the start we have never met. It will be good to finally sit down and discuss everything not over emails and phone calls. It is essential that BVCO minimises costs and carbon of course but there is only so long a project can go on before visiting is required. Hopefully we will have a good couple of days together to [View Full Entry]

By ellieltb
December 3rd 2007

Tulear- Chez lala Africa » Madagascar

Numero quatre Monday 3rd December 2007 Tulear - Chez Lala 16:57 (UK) / 19:57 (Madagascar) You are probably now thinking I have no one else to speak to. You’d be right. My French is getting rapidly better - but my conversational level has only yet found a ‘Can I please possibly have another roll of toilet paper?’ high, so having an interesting thought provoking conversation is difficult. I did however have a very good meeting - in a mixture of French and English with the people at ADES. ADES are BVCO’s project partners in the stove programme, and they have [View Full Entry]

By ADnMAZ
December 2nd 2007

The Hills have Eye-Eyes Africa » Madagascar

Town house

On arriving in Tana we had booked ourselves into what turned out to be an awesome hotel called Sakamanga, Malagasy for Blue Cat, with the intention of shopping around the city for a few days for a canoe trip down the Tsiribinha river. "It's never a good idea to jump at the first offer to come along" is our first travel motto. So when the taxi driver who picked us up from the airport (and also the first person we met in Madagascar) happened to mention that his cousin had a trip leaving the following day for the river we jumped. [View Full Entry]

By ellieltb
November 30th 2007

Tana Africa » Madagascar

Numero Deux Friday 30th November 15:15 (UK) / 18:15 (Madagascar) A day of driving all over Tana centre on errands; trying to get the freight released from customs has left me feeling rather tired, smelly, and dirty. As a highly active person I have found It very frustrating being contained in one vehicle all day long. Tried to go for a bit of a walk - but have found Tana not to be the best walking location - surprising that - cars and people fill the space and shouts of ‘Mademoiselle!’ and ‘tssss, tsss’ fill the air. I have come to [View Full Entry]

By Melchior
November 29th 2007

Manaohana Madagascar! Africa » Madagascar » Antananarivo

Green fields to Tana
Rice paddies & clouds

Tana Banana After freezing in London, it was quite a blast to get out of the airport in Antananarivo after 23 hours of travel time, out into 25 degrees... or so it felt! Tana. What most people seem to call this bustling city of rolling hills covered in houses and people. The ride in was a lot of green to me...green rice paddies, green trucks carrying green bananas, but not a very green country environmentally...or higienically! Bel Zebu, Bub Well done, please. It is actually the local buffalo, served everywhere, often cheaper than pork! Zebu steak, delicious! In so [View Full Entry]

By ellieltb
November 29th 2007

Arrival Tana Africa » Madagascar

Numero Une Thursday 28th November 17:02 (UK) / 20:02 (Madagascar) I always swore to myself that I would never write a blog; it was too trendy, and perhaps reveals a little too much about a person, but today I have reassessed my opinion. Here commences the first of many BVCO blogs - I know the excitement is intense! It may turn out to be a rather boring tale, but I hope it will give some insight into the workings of a small not for profit carbon offsetting organisation, along with an insight into Blue Ventures as a whole, the location in [View Full Entry]

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