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David Grier: Why a crazy man’s effort matters?
Frankly speaking, the first time I heard about the name of “David Grier”, it was a facebook (shame?) friend of mine who told me to become one of his fans, or friend him …. can’t even remember … I skipped the invite (so do I with all those funny- and not so funny- facebook invites [...]
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 [...]
Ikopa by canoe this saturday
So the second edition of Enjoy Madagascar took place last week-end, I
just want to report some activities that I found interesting for those
who are in Madagascar.
1- Ikopa by canoe
This coming saturday, as part of the monthly outing organized by the
ORTANA (Analamanga’s regional tourism bureau), 80 people will have the
chance to “ride” the Ikopa river on [...]
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 [...]
A tour around the duty free zone at Ivato airport. Some malagasy voan-dalana
A “voan-dalana” is what you bring back to your close friends and relatives after travelling- a kind of souvenir. The worst part of travelling must be hanging inside the airport waiting for the nice lady to call passengers of your flight. So, in Madagascar, while waiting for a 1:40 AM flight, I did a tour [...]
What the heck are all those uncommon tourists doing in Madagascar?
Weird question from a blog that aims to attract tourists to come to Madagascar, huh?
But as a fellow blogger/twitterer pointed out, although crisis is still in the air, strange enough,a whole bunch of foreign people are in Madagascar now, for different reasons..and those people aren’t coming for lemurs, nor for national [...]
A rambling from Madagascar: some positive notes despite all
Madafan is not the know-it-all about Madagascar (the motto “discover Madagascar” also applies to Madafan’s writers). This post will try to highlight some positive notes on Madagascar although things ain’t bright on the ground. It’s always satisfying to showcase what people are doing on the ground despite all.
- spotlightmadagascar.org: Sara Lehouillier Landed in Madagascar and [...]
Interview with Acacia Adventure Holidays’s marketing director Heath Ashcroft
After Acacia Africa organised the first-ever twit-up about Madagascar, madafan wanted to know more about this Africa-specialized british tour-operator. Thanks to twitter contacts, we managed to obtain an e-mail interview with Heath Ashcroft, the Marketing Director at Acacia Adventure Holidays. Although Acacia covers a range of African destinations, it is our great pleasure at Madafan [...]
getting ready for “takariva any Mahavelona”
So here we are in Mahavelona for the event “One night in Mahavelona”. Arrived this friday morning at the “Lagon hotel” where participants to this event will meet tomorrow before hanging out around Mahaveona for some drinks and barbecue.
Thanks to Thierry Orre (Lagon Hotel’s owner),Madafan is Lagon Hotel’s invitee- that’s a very nice treat [...]
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