In Search of Lemuria and frogs, John McCabe, a marketing expert taxi rattled through the cobbled streets of Antananarivo (the capital of Madagascar, prim.perev.) towards the eastern station, taxi-board (private cars, most pickups, used in some countries in Africa as a long-distance taxis, prim.perev).. This will be my penultimate trip by taxi-bar during my stay and, in theory, it should not be bad. Unfortunately, the hotel I was given the wrong information, so that the problems I've had enough. Mysterious plant I was expecting a trip that was supposed to take about 2.5 hours, so that 5000 ariary (currency Madagascar prim.perev.) completely should be enough that Administrators have confirmed several hotels. I have offered to go over 17,000 ariary, the price was too high so that under it clearly meant something, but the desire to make money. I asked a few more offices, where they sold tickets for the taxi-rail, but everywhere I answered the same. I do not quite understand what I tried to explain at the same time, since these explanations are in French but some English-speaking guy helped me. It turned out that the city of Andasibe a taxi-rail route does not end they all go to the town of Tamatave. And as I take a seat passenger, who could go in Tamatave, they wanted to pay a ticket to the final stop. Frankly, it sounds crazy because they surely someone will pick up when I I will go down, but that's internal rules. In the end, I make a deal for 12 thousand ariary, wondering to myself why no guide or hotel staff did not know about it. The guy that helped me with the negotiations, was my companion on the taxi-rail and he told me one more unpleasant news. It turned out that the first taxi-rail to Tamatave set off at 8 am and the next will go until noon, if you do not pick up until the time is enough passengers. That's why I had to wait 3, 5:00 to how to make a 3-hour trip (half an hour, I threw on a mandatory lunch break). Korotkorogy chameleon At least, my traveling companion was an interesting person. He was educated in South Africa and Kenya, his English was quite passable, but the fate of very unusual. He worked as a journalist throughout Africa, including Sudan, where he had been kidnapped, causing his impression of the country was ruined forever. He participated in two major car race in Africa, one of which is along the west coast, from Cape Town to Ivory d'Ivoire (country in West Africa, prim.perev.) and the other - along the east coast of Djibouti until the (state in the north-eastern Africa, ca. TRANSFER).. Now he works for a company that provides financial assistance major infrastructure projects in countries around the Indian Ocean. Among his friends he is considered the current President of Madagascar. During a stop for lunch he bought me a drink of rice, which tasted of smoke, which is Malagasy called "silver water." chameleon Parson After problems with the hotels in Antananarivo, I was glad to find a good, inexpensive hotel in Andasibe. He was just one kilometer from the entrance to the national park. His owners were Chinese, but the restaurant took small change money in Madagascar is not often seen. The situation in general looked good, but the maitre d'hotel was like Hercule Poirot (Detective, a fictional character, the hero of Agatha Christie, prim.perev.), and a local cat I obviously dislike. Andasibe National Park, Mantadiya pretty strange place, it consists of several distinct from each other areas. At the same time, at least one of these zones is not under the jurisdiction of the state association ANGAP (National Association for the Management of protected areas in Madagascar, prim.perev).. Thus, these "free zone" can be considered direct competitors of areas managed ANGAP. In each of these zones has its hiking trails, and I spent a few hours, evaluating each of them. In this process, I actively assisted Donna, an English-speaking fellow-explorer, who tried to persuade to hire him, assuring me that he was a connoisseur of different kinds of chameleons and frogs. I never dared to ask why he was so called. Analamazaotra Reserve - the main attraction of the national park. His business card is indriyas population, the largest species of lemur that looks like children dressed as pandas. But the first feature indriyas, are familiar with park visitors - it is their plaintive cry, like weeping, which is carried to a distance of 3 km (female biologists working in the park, said that in her opinion, Indra - the loudest mammal in the world). In the predawn coolness I looked at the haze enveloped in a tropical forest, and the cry was at once attractive and slightly scary. I can not wait to see within these screamers. Surprised indriyas Soon came Donna. He was dressed as if he had just returned from a trip to a time machine in the 70 of the last century. If it was not the binoculars, I was somewhat concerned. The paradox of life in Madagascar is that many of the guides earn more than doctors (walking tour lasting five and a half hours will bring him a two-day salary of a local doctor). However, Donna said that since the riots that took place here in the early years, fallen on hard times and the number of tourists has decreased to such an extent that the wires are working just a couple of days a month. Do not worry, he is my good money. Read more:
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