http://www.odyssei.com Madagascar, - lately on the site en-us Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:41:34 +0100 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:41:34 +0100 pet@odyssei.com (Piotr Jaworski) pjm@odyssei.com (Pawel Jaworski) http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24701.html Required travel documents for Madagascar: passport [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24701.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24287.html Electric power: 127/220V / 50 Hz [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24287.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24028.html Area code to Madagascar: +261 [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24028.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13758.html Taolanaro is a very beautiful city. It is also called fort dauphin. Surrounded by the Indian Ocean on three sides, Fort Dauphin is a picturesque town that should be included in every visit to Madagascar. Founded in 1642 and named after King Louis XIV, it [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13758.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13757.html Mahajanga is a city on the north-west coast of Madagascar. Great beaches, lots of interesting hikes in the area. Many colonial buildings and the town has an oriental atmosphere. [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13757.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13756.html Isalo [pronounced eeshall] National park in the south-west of the country. 203,900 acres. 150 miles from Toliary. Canyons, cliffs, gorges and other striking geological features, due to wind and rain erosion. Exotic flora, native palm trees, giant cactus [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13756.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13755.html Situated on the northeast coast, Toamasina is the country’s main port and a provincial capital. It is an eight-hour drive from Antananarivo and, like the capital, it has several busy markets, including the Bazaar Be. Around 11km (7 miles) north of the to [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13755.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13754.html Mananjary is a popular beach resort on the east coast (but not for sea-bathing because of sharks). Taolanaro (formerly Fort Dauphin), in the southeast corner of the island, is the site of the first French settlement. Parts of the 17th-century fort remain. [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13754.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13753.html The arid south is noted for its many remarkable species of cactus- and baobab-like plants and for the highly developed funerary art of its inhabitants, past and present. [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13753.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13752.html Ile Ste-Marie (Nossi Boraha) lies off the east coast, 150km (90 miles) north of Toamasina. Its dense vegetation and the difficulty of navigating the lagoons which surround it made it an ideal base for pirates and, later, a colony for convicts. There are m [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13752.html