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Rosewood trafficking in Madagascar, are you kidding us?
This post is running for the World Blogger Contest for the Madagascar destination. I wish I had a more accurate topic to categorize it into, but the closest ones are probably “ecotourism”, “Art, crafts & shopping”, or “culture”. The point for this post is to report how this rosewood issue is addressed by local population- [...]
Local tourism in Madagascar: continued
Earlier, I wrote that we want to showcase on Madafan the challenges for local tourism, from a local standpoint. To make things closer to how a tourist would approach his preparation for a trip to Madagascar, let’s see what are the ressources that I have available (as a reminder, we want to spend the holidays [...]
Local tourism- malagasy discovering Madagascar: how achievable is it?
This year, I move toward a radical change in my professional career after June 2010, moreover I am celebrating 10 years of dating my wife (oh gosh, that’s been a long and lovely ride) we’ve decided to spend our vacation in Madagascar (as if we could afford spending a holiday outside of Madagascar , in [...]
Taolagnaro to welcome 900 cruisers on march 2010
photo credit: joiseyshowaa So a cruise will land in Taolagnaro on march 28th 2010, bringing 900 english-speaking tourists to this wonderful city of Madagascar for 9 hours. The tourism ministry even held a special session to “motivate” tourism actors in this city so as to shine and give the best of them during this 9 [...]
7 facts you need to know about taxi rides in Madagascar
Once you’re tired of walking around a city, as a tourist, you may be tempted to have a taxi-ride… So let’s try to give you some tips in order to make it a memorable and funny ride The following isn’t about the”agreed” taxis parking outside big hotels and at the airport , we’re talking here [...]
“Write for us” at madafan.com, free publicity for your Madagascar tourism activity while getting published on different networks, including www.lonelyplanet.com
Madafan always wanted to be a platform where anyone who travelled or lived in Madagascar can share their experience, their recommendations (as well as the “avoid it” places/activities) that Madafan readers ought to know, though setting-up a vibrant community of Madagascar-fans. We definitely aim to have everybody fom every corner of Madagascar write articles about [...]
Follow Madafan today at Enjoy Madagascar 2009
Despite the political crisis that still prevails in Madagascar, the second edition of Enjoy Madagascar still happens today and tomorrow (December 12 and 13) in Antananarivo, at Futura Business Park. This second edition is a bit of challenge as international tourists and professionals may not massively come, though I personally think that by choosing to [...]
Enjoy a colorful november: mangos, mimosa, jacaranda and so on
Sometimes when you are too used to your everyday life, you just don’t pay attention to all those nice things happening around you. This time, I just wanted to take Madafan readers through three things that you sometimes take for granted that you don’t pay attention too… Those things has one thing in common: colors [...]
BOMBS discovered in Madagascar
Madafan is about “discovering” Madagascar, and given the crisis we have now, you may think that there has actually been bombs that exploded in Madagascar. Well, sorry to “disappoint” but the bomb I’m talking about here stands for “Best Of Malagasy Blogs”- the second edition, as the first one happened in 2007. Just couldn’t resist [...]




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