The first impression of Trinidad is color. Narrow streets paved with stones, one story houses with iron barred windows, painted in pastel colors and crowds of people and horse carts. We had booked over the internet at Hostal Rocaverde, a casa particular on Simon...
We woke up at 6am without the alarm because of the jet lag. The breakfast lounge was crowded with French and Americans, the personnel indifferent to our presence and the buffet, full but uninspiring. The plan was to drive to Trinidad with a stop in Cienfuegos. With...
It took 45 long minutes, after an 11 hour flight to see our luggage coming out at the end of the belt. But contrary to what I had read on the internet, the customs and immigration clearance in Havana international terminal was quick and smooth. The previous week we...
We flew back to Antananrivo and Jean Luc drove us to the Café de la Gare for lunch, a great bistro in the renovated central train station. In this upscale joint you can find all sorts of people, business, hipsters, tourists and many more.We reserved the afternoon for...
We left quite late, around 10:15 to visit the Kirindy national park, home of the famous Fossa lemur. After 90 minutes drive on relatively good dirt road, we arrived in the forest. Kirindy is very dry and dense, very different from the rain forest of the east coast....
Early morning in Belo sur Mer is beautiful. No, magical. The tide is very low, there is no wind and the light is excellent for photographing the boats going out for the daily fishing activities. [gallery royalslider=1 name="1" style="width:100%" carousel="fx=carousel"...
Despite the 4:15am wake up call, it was better to fly early and have the full day ahead, since the drive from Morondava to Belo Sur Mer is 3 hours long. Morondava is located on west coast across Mozambique, right at the delta of the Morondava river. [gallery...
Today, we had to drive for 400km, all the way back to Antananarivo, normally a non-stop 8 hours drive. We started early, around 7am, to have enough time to stop in Ambositra and Antsirabe. The heavy fog turned the rain forest into a mystical place. We were ascending...
After the long train journey, it was good to sleep for a couple of hours longer than usual. We had arranged for a boat tour in the Canal des Pangalanes. The Canal was built by the French on the turn of the 20th century and connects a large number of natural lakes and...
I had read a lot about the Fianarantsoa–Côte Est train, FCE for short. Theoretically it leaves at 7am for a 7-12 hours journey to Manakara through a narrow corridor of jungle vegetation, plantations and waterfalls. The poorly maintained line was built in the 1930s and...