Life in Rural Madagascar
What is it really like here? I’ll try to put it into words, minus the smells and sounds that can only be experienced by a visit to this beautiful island.Home here is a bungalow room at our very touristic hotel, Chez Maggie. Morandava is located on the coast and provides easy access to ecological parks and rainforests as well as some of the most beautiful rivers and Baobab forests in the country. Europeans come to spend a night or two on their way to their Madagascar adventure
Sakaraha
he expression “ It’s all relative” kept coming to mind as we left Toliara to go to Sakaraha to teach about 22 students last week. Sakaraha is a two-hour drive to the north and east of Toliara. Toliara is poor, Sakaraha is dirt poor. Dirt poor, hmmmm, I’ve heard this common American expression before, and have read about the debate of it’s origins. Most say it was coined during the American Depression when some people were so poor that the floor of their home was simply dirt.
