A travel guide to Madagascar by Paul BC
Madagascar is a wonderful country. Very poor but incredible. I went there to visit my uncle Henry who lives in a little island named St. Marie.
To get there, I took the plane with my parents and my sister from Paris to Tananarivo which is the capital city of Madagascar located in the big island.
It’s a very poor city in which the healthcare system is mediocre. Perhaps the country is so poor that the governement takes care of itself before taking care of the population.
Tananarivo is surrounded by slums and even at the center you can find piles of rubbish in the streets. It’s very polluted and the poverty is very present.
To reach my uncle’s place we took a small plane and flew for about two hours. The small island where he lives is very narrow and about 14 km long. It’s located in the north-east of the main Madagascar’s island.
My uncle’s place is a wide bungalow facing the sea (the canal of Mozambic). The water is very clear and shallow for about a mile.
But the most remarkable thing is the population that is always smiling and happy in spite of the dryness of the climate and the starvation. Most are fishermen but the fish is not always enough to feed their family. On the main island people are more cattle-breeders than inhabitants of St. Marie’s island, so there are more zebus meat, even if the zebus are skinny.
I may visit Madagascar again soon. So should you!
