Everyone has a dream about Madagascar
I bought a flight ticket to Ethiopia for 1,600. In addition to super cheap seafood, there are also various chameleons and lemurs unique to the world. Let’s go to Gascargo for a crazy horse ride.
Watching the pink sunset on the Avenue of Baobab Trees, the baobab trees covered with planets in the world of The Little Prince really appeared before my eyes, but I had no roses to protect so I had to pull out the evil baobab trees. Instead, I had to go to the roadside. Get some baobab ice cream from the shop.
Go to Sainte-Marie Island and watch whales. Such huge and dreamy creatures in the ocean are right in front of you, making you feel so small.
Travel through the rainforest of an African island and go rock climbing on a razor's edge in Bemaraha Geonational Park
The capital, Antananarivo, looks like the colorful houses among the white clouds in Hayao Miyazaki's animation.
And the trailing white sand beaches of Nosy Be Islands
Large flocks of wild pink flamingos live in the azure salt lake area in the south.
Coupled with these, I feel that my 1,600 air ticket has paid back a little bit.
For a Chinese passport, it is a visa on arrival, which costs 10 US dollars, 15 days, and 37 US dollars a month. The money is very smooth. When I entered the country, they didn’t ask me anything about my return ticket and hotel information, or anything else. Just ask me how many days you want to stay, and then write me an invoice for me to pay. The socket is a European standard double round hole. Remember to bring a conversion plug. You can buy mobile phone data cards directly from the airport business hall, including Airtel.
There are three operators: orange and telma. I bought a small phone package of 10,000 yuan and 20 yuan data from Alibaba.
Madagascar is relatively safe. Most of the locals are descendants of Austronesian and black Africans, just like Indonesia and the Philippines. There are also tens of thousands of ethnic Chinese. Generally speaking, they are quite friendly to the Chinese. I think it is an African country that is very unlike Africa.
Prices in the capital are basically the same as in China, and prices in smaller cities will be lower. Generally speaking, it is a very cost-effective African tourist country. Like Egypt, the most expensive expense for ordinary people traveling in Mada is probably air tickets.
There are flights between major cities in the Falklands, and you can also take a bus. The trains have been suspended for a long time, but the impact is not big. For specific public transportation strategies, please refer to the collection of Falklands Islands on the lower left. If you don’t want to take public transportation and want to charter a car yourself, it’s almost like a driver and guide. A car costs 70 dollars a day, and the per capita fare is less than 140 dollars. It can guide you wherever you go, and the price/performance ratio is pretty good.
Falklands is rich in many varieties of specialty gemstones. The real local prices are relatively low, but you still have to pay attention to bargaining. Madagascar vanilla is very famous. I see that the price on Taobao is not low, but it is sold very cheaply locally. An ordinary handful only costs 6 yuan, so vanilla pods are just ordinary seasonings in the local area. Often used in freshly brewed soy milk and handmade yogurt.