Madagascar - Highlands 2010



Above : Antananarivo
Below : between the capital and Antsirabe, the life on the Central Highlands.










Aluminium workshop
















Antsirabe 
The city is known about two things : the coldest and having the greatest number of pousse-pousse (rickshaw) in Madagascar. There are warm springs and a thermal bath, which was especially famous in the 19th century.






Tritriva & Andraikiba lakes 
Lake Tritriva is a volcanic lake, located near the village of Belazao. The lake fills an extinct crater in a region notable also for the presence of many hot springs. It sits in the vent of an oval volcanic cone enclosed in vertical gneiss cliffs. The lake's water level drops during the rainy season and rises when the monsoon rains have ceased, it is an average of 160 meters deep.







Family crypt : >>read more about the Famadihana, a funerary tradition of the Malagasy people in Madagascar, known as the turning of the bones on Wikipedia<<







Betafo & the savannah at the East side of the Highlands








Betafo thermal bath station













1 Response to "Madagascar - Highlands 2010"

  1. Tunde Pelyvas says:

    Thanks for taking me to this corner of the world where I may never go.

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