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A Holiday arranged by Cox and Kings 14th-25th April 2006 with
fellow travellers Ian & Ann Gray making four of us. |
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Map of our Holiday, red dotted line |
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A French Colonial House in Tana (Antananarivo) |
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Market Roofs & Our Hotel
beyond on the hill |
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View down on Tana |
![](M_HighTown_small5.JPG) High Town Tana
where the air is cooler |
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Modern Tana |
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The Heart shaped Lake, Tana |
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Prime Minister's Palace |
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Locals looking over Tana
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Gathering firewood in the city centre, one of the
hidden poor |
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Old Tana (Antananarivo) |
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A roadside stall |
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The Old Town |
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Market Stalls |
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The Open market, Tana |
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English house, hence the chimney. |
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The Queens Palace gate |
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Uphill and downhill houses |
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The washing is out on the line |
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The ruined Queen's Palace |
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Street People, Tana |
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Looking out of their window |
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The view from our Hotel window |
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Wooden Cauldron in a souvenir shop |
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Better houses opposite the hotel,
early on Sunday morning |
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Crossing the road |
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Sardines for sale |
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The Covered Market |
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Uphill view with reflections from our hotel
windows |
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Pie man passing opposite |
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Off to Church |
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Children Playing |
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The Old Forum |
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A small trader, plus baby |
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Open meat shop, no fridges here |
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Reproduced City Gate with rolling
stone
gate |
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A Cobbled Street |
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The defunct Tana Railway Station |
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A Cafe |
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The College |
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Under the counter books? |
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Prison? |
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Peanuts |
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Central Park |
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Derelict House |
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Flats |
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Fruit Sellers |
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More Church-Goers |
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"Ho Chi Minh", a charming beggar |
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Zoo Entrance |
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A Fossa in Tana zoo |
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A big Crocodile in the zoo |
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Rice Field below a rock slope |
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A Riverside Village |
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Long view of the Presidential Palace,
far right |
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Curious villagers, (ours was a
pretty ordinary Minibus) |
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Nile Crocodiles? |
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Bus Station & 'Pousse-Pousses' |
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Bamboo Thicket |
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Selling Fruit |
![](M_Beach_small1.jpg) Miramar Beach |
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Baobab Tree & 'house' |
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Baobab 'Forest' |
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The highway, N2 |
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Bowler hats must keep left, this was a railway bridge |
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Holiday Bungalows |
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Handmade wooden toys |
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Riverside Village |
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Panther Chameleon |
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Fuel Supplies arriving |
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A Seaside Shack |
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Shops |
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From the hills
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A Warty Chameleon |
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Madagascar Kingfisher |
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Not Friends? |
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Dugout canoe |
![](M_Easter%20Party_small3.jpg) Going to an Easter Party,
taken through the
minibus
Windscreen |
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A Sandy Cove |
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Travellers Palm, the National Symbol |
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Waterway |
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Lubber Grasshopper, 3" long |
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The village market where my camera
gave up. There was Madagascan Tobacco, a sort of green snuff, on
sale. |
![](M_Grandma_small3.jpg) Grandma
in her bedroom |
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The Farm Village
we looked around |
![](M_Village%20Girls_small3.jpg) Village Girls |
![](10Village%20Lads_small.jpg) Village Lads |
![](M_Rice%20harvest_small3.jpg) Village Paddy Fields |
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Rice Drying on highway N2, no animal
thieving. |
![](M_Village%20Paddies_small3.jpg) Rice Harvest
in terraces |
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Memorials to the Dead, the bodies are buried
in forest we were told |
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Young family |
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Animals made from Rafffia |
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Painting toy trucks |
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Cast aluminium artwork |
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Pram |
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Country lane |
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Granite Outcrop |
![](M_Plain_small3.jpg) The Plain & a Geologist,
our fellow traveller |
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Gum Trees & Staff Bungalows, Berenty
Reserve |
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Brown Lemur gang sets off home |
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Reception at Berenty Private Reserve |
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The roof gang who woke us every
morning |
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Hybrid Brown Lemur |
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Berenty Visitors' Bungalows |
![](25laundry_small.jpg) The Laundry Returns |
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Ringtail Lemur |
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Ready yet? |
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These are Sifakas "Dancing"
or galloping, but the
light was low and they were very fast! |
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![](M_Mansion_small3.jpg) The De Heaulme's Mansion,
the local land owners who own Berenty etc |
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Sifaka Lemur |
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Octopus Tree |
![](M_Tamarind_small3.JPG) Tamarind Forest |
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More Strange Fruit
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Shops |
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Petrol delivery? |
![](M_Kudu%20Herd_small3.jpg) Zebu Roadblock |
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A container lorry down below |
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Tortoise Race start, at the Gems Shop |
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Gems for sale |
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Brown Lemurs |
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Orange Chameleon |
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A hill village
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Farm on the plain |
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Orchid |
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Roadside Bar |
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Pounding the Fibres for handmade paper |
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Smoothing the paper |
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Drying paper |
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Handmade paper shop |
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Proud Mum |
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Pounding Corn meal |
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Corn meal Pounder posing |
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Looking Out |
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Making a Dugout Canoe |
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Picnic Spot just off the N2 |
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Roadside snack bar |
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Kudu Lead Cow |
![](M_Poinsetta_small3.jpg) Poinsettia,
the National
Flower |
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Seaside pool |
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Pitcher Plants |
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A Detail |
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Erosion Effect (river colour) |
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Line fishing |
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River scene & Crocodiles, somewhere? |
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Odd Fruit |
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Sapphire Mining Town. A grass fire provided a
feast of roast insects for the birds |
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Spiny Forest |
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Tulear Shell Market |
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Dinosaur Bones for sale in the market |
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"Town Party" and a Marathon |
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Police Station |
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French Colonial Spa Hotel |
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Durian growing |
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Senegal troops who were used by the
French to keep order, on a grave marker |
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A Farmer's Cart |
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Two types of Beobab |
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Helping out in the market |
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Lobsters for Ann's lunch |
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Catching lobsters for Ann |
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Girls from the village collecting
wood and fording the creek |
![](M_Sunset2_small3.jpg) Sunset |
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Grave Decoration |
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Bottle Brush Plant |
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It's someone's home |
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A Salon de The, which has seen better days, in
Fort Dauphin |
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A local Mosque |
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We flew from Fort Dauphin back to Tana |
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Coast littered with wrecks |
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Fort Dauphin |
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Fort Dauphin |
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Not much freeboard canoe on Lake Evatraha |
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Shops in Fort Dauphin |
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An Eastern Village |
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A Hill Village |
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A Fishing Village |
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The Fishing Village again |
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Forest Warden |
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Wash Day |
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Salama! (Hello) |
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That's her opinion |
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Evening in Isola
National Park |
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"Relais de la Reine", Chalets our hotel |
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Spectacular rock formations |
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Elephants Foot Plant
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"Piscine Naturelle" & French Frolickers
in Isola National Park |
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Isola National Park |
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Not Uranium ore in this cliff |
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There is a buzzard's nest there, somewhere. |
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Sunset Window |
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An empty steel coffin awaiting the
return of the body which has been removed for re-dressing. |
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View from Ambositra |
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Fabrice our guide & the old Citadel Gate Ambositra |
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French Governors sitting room, Ambositra
is on the cooler high ground. |
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Governors House next to the old kings house |
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Ambositra |
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Old and new transport |
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Old Palace Main Gate |
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Palms |
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Kings Ancient Palace, the French governor's
to the rear |
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Town Gate Ambositra |
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A new Fish Shop |
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A Canon & an Inspector |
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Fixed fishing nets |
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Sacred Tree |
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A Clothes stall |
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A Family Grave |
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Fabrice and our driver |
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Gendarmes checking their papers on
this grave |