The simple (read: poor) life in southern Madagascar
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under madagascar
A typical roadside hut in southern Madagascar
Tags: bush, emerging nations, ft dauphin, madagascar, photography, poverty, rural, village
Sunset on a quiet beach
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under madagascar
Isolated and beautiful
I’ve been in Ft. Dauphin, where the keyboards have the French layout and very few people speak English, for three days now. This, by right of its natural beauty, should be a perfect sun and surf tourism destination. Unfortunately for the local economy, it’s mostly empty (not withstanding the four French guys I met playing foosball who, again, spoke almost zero English).
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Tags: antananarivo, beach, beer, ft dauphin, madagascar, sunset, tourism
Goodbye Kenya, hello Madagascar
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under kenya
Headed to the airport at sunrise
After 26 days in Kenya, I’m headed to Madagascar. I’ll be reporting at a large titanium mine Fort Dauphin in the south of the country — one that a conservationist boldly told me was “on balance, better for the environment.” I’m also hoping to check out some biological preserves with St. Louis ties.
In the downtime, I’ll be chilling on the beach, maybe kite surfing, definitely fishing and playing with a lemur or two.
And probably not speaking much English. Madagascar is a francophone country, so while Malagasy is the official language, French is the Western choice. (If broken e-mails from my hotel in the capital Antananarivo are any indication, English isn’t exactly popular.)
S’il vous plait, I might be screwed. Or it will make for more entertaining adventures.
My plane departs in 67 minutes. Catch you on the flip side.
Tags: antananarivo, beach, fishing, ft dauphin, internet, lemur, madagascar, mining, nairobi, photography, tourism
