Our first stop in Madagascar – the capital city of Antananarivo!

Like I wrote about in our last post, our first stop in Madagascar was the capital city of Antananarivo, nicknamed “Tana”.  Tana is a city of ~1.5 million people, but is quickly growing because more and more people are moving from the countryside to Tana in search of safer living conditions. The city itself is in the center of…

Twelve days: Our plan for our time in Madagascar!

I know I still have one more post to write about Portugal, but I’m just too excited to write about Madagascar, and so I’m going to skip ahead to that for the time being. When we were doing our travel planning it was the hardest to figure out what to do for our time in Madagascar, so I…