After spending an amazing few days in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, we were ready to be off to our next stop – Tulear (aka Toliara). We had planned to spend a day and a half there with the UNFPA, and then to launch into our driving tour (for fun!) from Tulear back to Antananarivo. But, we hit a slight hiccup…
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…
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…
After a great five days in the Algarve, it was time to move onto the next phase of our Portugal sightseeing. We were headed to a couple great rural areas and then, after some time in Lisbon and other cities, we headed to some other beaches as well. So, let’s go! As we drove out of the Algarve the…
Even though these posts take us out of the flow of “real-time” a little bit, I really enjoy writing (and later reading) our country summary posts, so I today I am writing a recap about our Croatia travel! In case you are interested, here are links to our previous recaps – Brazil recap, Italy recap (we didn’t write…