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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- [...]
1800 km off-road on 4WD in the South of Madagascar
I once asked Madafan readers about making Madagascar a destination for extreme sports, not only have I found answers from my internet-wanderings and from the discussions I had with few of them, but one exciting experience is soon going to happen in the south region of Madagascar. In that previous article, I was mentioning the [...]
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 [...]
Don’t know what to do for Earth Day? Vote for Vakan’Ala
EarthDay turns 40 today, April 22nd 2010, that’s older than me but this year is the first time I really took the time to consider this day as a special one – there’s no shame admitting it … And if you are one of those people who want to do something special this day but [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Contribute to Mozilla FireFox’s support to Namoroka Park in Madagascar
Those last years, big guys find it trendy or fashionable to get an inspiration from a Madagascar-related item… We all know the dreamworks cartoons (Madagascar, Madagascar 2-escape to africa, Merry Madagascar), now we have my favorite browser AKA Firefox who codenamed its next release Namoroka – inspired from a park in the north-west of Madagascar [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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