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1 septembre 2014

Alefa Madagascar! Part 2 of 2.

The starting point of anything Malagasy is Antananarivo, the capital city, generally shortened to Tana. It's bang in the centre of Madagascar, and it's where all the planes go to and come from. So, logically, this was the starting point of my adventure....

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Tags: house, food, rice, motorbike, people, town, road, village, tree, down, mountain, trip, travel, republic, madagascar, alefa, voyage, capital, city, paddy

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11 août 2014

Réunion mon amour, part 1 of 2.

The original plan for July's holiday was a safari in Tanzania. That fell through because it turned out to be extremely expensive and rather difficult to organize. Plan B was a trip to South Africa with P, visiting Johannesburg, Kruger National Park and...

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Tags: island, airport, mountain, shoes, reunion, hike, backpack, cilaos, cirque, hell-bourg, mafate, roland garros, rucksack, salazie, volcano

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20 mai 2013

Kawéni

My school and most of my pupils belong to the village of Kawéni, between Mamoudzou and Majicavo-Lamir. Both village and school have quite a reputation. The village is known for being the starting point of most of the complaints, robberies, strikes and...

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Tags: mayotte, kawéni, school, people, mangrove, village, clandestine, immigration, mountain, sugar, industrial, roundabout, shack, slum

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20 août 2012

M'lima Choungui

Last Sunday, we did a very touristy and rather stupid thing. We decided to go up the Mount Choungui, known as M'lima Choungui. We'd seen it plenty of times from a distance, we have friends who've gone up it, and it was starting to seem as though everybody...

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Tags: mayotte, food, water, root, choungui, friend, stones, down, mountain, up, view

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