Day 1:
taxibrousse to tulear late, 6.00 am yet arrived at 9.30
Hotel manatan
ATM, shopping
Taxi brousse Mafio at 2.00
2 rows on the back, sat next to George, had lots of street food,
Laughing with lauren
4.00pm driving to Momotrek
Several breaks, dinner, police checks
Met the owner, went over detail, map
Sharing a bungalow for 7 ppl
Bunk bed above, george below
Lauren above, kate below, jaani and antoine sharing bed, johny alone
Everyone had a hot shower
George made me laugh a lot
Day 2:
Woke up early, breakfast at 7.30
Small bagguettes, butter and pineapple jam. Papaya and coffee.
2 cars to start point
My car full of porters on the back, antoine and jaani
Car broke down in the middle, surrounded by beautiful canyons, savana grassland
Jacob drove back to pick us up.
Julien - 19 yrs of guiding, thin frail man, dont speak much english
Julio - son, work with dad for 3yrs, better english, tell us stuff
Start trekking from village, through grassland, climb up canyons
Blisters, moaning from Johnny
George telling me stuff about geology
White lemurs
More moaning from Johnny and he stepped on back of my leg and scratch my leg quite big
Portuguesse
Arrived at campsite, by a stream, share tents with kate and lauren
Dinner, noodle soup, rice and beans
Torch become tent light
Good talk about random stuff like family
Lauren, sydney, parents separated, was working as some sort of consultant job, quit to travel for 2yrs, want to either become a ranger or a guide for hiking, one older sister
Kate, bristol uni, parent separated, older brother, sleep talk,
Showed them my drawings and art project
Day 3
Breakfast at 7
Start walking at 7.30
Through forests, some climbing
7 dwarfs, im sneezy, lauren doc, george dopey, jaani grumpy, antoin happy, johnny sleepy, kate blush
Fruit: im a peach
Talk about food, future prospect jobs and travel with lauren.
Dinner: chicken and pasta, lauren shares her bombay snack
Tired, achy feet
We laughed i killed a chicken
Day 4
Beautiful scenery
Best Tent spot, up altitude, by mountain
Waterfall as bathing pool
Day 5
Wear sandals, no more pain, blister
Walk through dry river bed full of sand
Took pictures of ringtailed lemurs
Black pool, jaani, antoin
Jumped into freezing blue pool with lauren
Walk back to bungalow, through the scattered grassland, passing big troop of zebu
Good talk with Julian, learnt how to say animal in gasy
Bungalow, johnathan used up hot shower 50 min, not happy
Stroll, bought ice cream for lauren, me and kate.
Devour street food, fried vegetables, peanuts
Lauren want to buy baobab tree painting, 40,000ar i negotiate the 30,000 ar
Nice fish curry for dinner
Shared rum btw looi, kate, george
Paid hotel room
Weeds, george rolled it, i showered and came out, stilltook a long time, we all went outside to smoke, 2nd roll in toilet
Day 6
Woke up early
Breakfast gasy style, 100k for 1 buk buk, just bought like 7 and 2 banana to eat them. Good breakkie!
Fucked up with the taxi brousse, prob explaining to driver what we want. They played with us about our taxi brousse, many passed and we cant get on
4x4 to next town, squash in. Me and george at the front, kate johnathan 2american girls back, looi, jaani and antoin at the back outside with luggage
Taxi brousse to tulear, so many people, i sat next to george and looi, in middle, bum falling off seat a lot, numb
Got to tulear at 1.30pm, decided to stay ib tulear till 5pm to get 4x4 back to ifaty
Back to manatan, ppl use internet
ATM with Jaani and george, magic store buy granola, biscuit
Late lunch at le jardin, spainish salad
5pm walk quickly back to manatan to get on 4x4 to ifaty, beautiful scenery back
Dinner, meet ppl again at camp, apparently, ppl saw whales, had good dives, amazing vis for the last week or so
Nadine gave me a big hug straight away, a bit tipsy she was
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