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Madagascar : the chick family set a course to the North
The chick family continues the Red Island walk tour up the coast is.
Ten years after Africatrek, Alexandre and Sonia Poussin cross South to North the big island. Their children Philae and Ulysses, they began this adventure since may 2014 aboard their cart pulled by two zebus port and starboard.
Madagascar : the chick family set a course to the North
Water. Water everywhere. We are floundering. It falls on us by trucks, rolling highlands down to stand in our way. In the East of Madagascar, There are only two seasons. The rainy season and the rainy season. At Fort-Dauphin, the capital of the Southeast, We were put in custody: "This road"., cut by rivers that crosses it on uncertain bins, is a true initiatory passage. Where his name, BAC + 10! If you join Vangaindrano, you will be graduating!"To put all the chances on our side, We have, with Zorro and Zorg, a pair of zebus supplementary. We now have a real 4 x 4, Sixteen pads...
Before us, straight, the side go north on 1,500 kilometres. Madagascar : the chick family set a course to the North. The landscape is open, grassy; the mountains, peeled. First Ferry: Ebakika. Wonder of toponymy! The two ramps lower. Zebus are reluctant. Starboard Mainty takes the lead. That's him, the Chief! On the other side, We're hallucinating: the laterite, groomed as a stadium track, is lined with bricked gutters! It's a construction site Himo (high intensity of labour) funded by the European Union to provide work for these populations: myriads of fluorescent vest and helmet white workers who work to open up the South East region.
Over the days, We discover a landscape of coastal heathland, pecked and fro of dead trained skyward trunks. A kind of Verdun of the tropics! A witness tells: "There spanned 100 kilometers, ten years ago, the immense coastal forest of Manantenina. They burned everything to recover rosewood!».
Adventures to follow …
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Articles published by Paris Match : http://www.parismatch.com/Vivre/Voyage/Madagascar-la-famille-Poussin-met-cap-au-Nord-1179116