by Anthony | May 3, 2024 | Africa
Most of the time, small planes aren’t really that much more than the commercial airliners. Also, if you’re in a county like Kenya or a continent like Africa- trying to travel with just the roads can be challenging, dangerous, and sometimes just a waste of...
by Anthony | Nov 17, 2023 | Africa, Anjajavy, Madagascar
The northern side of Madagascar is remote, tropical, peaceful, and mostly untamed. You can hear about celeb guests like Leonardo DiCaprio in these areas. We went to this remote hotel to recharge after a safari trek through Kenya and Tanzania. You fly into a very small...
by Anthony | Nov 16, 2023 | Africa, Madagascar
You might not know it- Madagascar is huge. Also, their roads are (to be gentle) under developed. This makes travel take longer. Most people fly into Antananarivo (‘tana) because it’s the main city, right in the middle. Andasibe, however, is a place on the...
by Anthony | Nov 8, 2023 | Africa, Anjajavy, Madagascar
The Baobab tree is amazing, it’s a succulent.. yeah. Some of them are thousands of years old. One of them (which I didn’t see, but was in Madagascar) was so large they carved a small bar into it. The Baobab is also called “reniala” (“mother of the forest”)...
by Anthony | Nov 6, 2023 | Africa, Madagascar
About 30 minutes of walking into the scorching hot forest, we arrive at a hole in the ground. The temperature is what the locals would call “Mafana Be” which is Malagasy for REALLY HOT. It doesn’t look like much, and there’s a 40 foot ladder...
by Anthony | Nov 2, 2023 | Africa, Madagascar
These crabs are about 18″ wide, side to side. I was able to get pretty close to this one.
