Vazaha !! and Easter break trip to Manakara

Vazaha: Lo que en España es el clásico giri o yankee, es decir, es como nos llaman a los europeos blancos aquí en Madagascar

Salut Vaza !! bonjour vaza !! It’s the “nick name” of all Europeans.
O yes, I here it so many times a day!! They look exited when they see ONE OF US… It is like if we were born in another world or something like that.
Being white is a symbol of being rich :( that is why we are living in a kind of micro cosmos between all the vazas (Europeans) and the high class Malagasy in Fianaratsoa;
Anyways, people are very kind in general and quite respectful with foreigners but they have this horrible habit of spiting on the floor and sometimes it is annoying when they are trying to catch our attention.
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4 hours driving to the east, we arrived to Manakara, a little town washed by the Indian Ocean.
We stayed in a really nice bungalow placed right at the beach, so the waves’ melody helped us falling into sleep every night :)
The second day we made an excursion with a canoe around the “Canal Pangales” which is parallel to the sea. There are lot of little village around it and we were invited to have lunch in one of them (grilled fish and rice).


Something interesting is that these people decorate their houses with shark jaws (in this part of the sea there are a lot of them) so it was a little bit scary the first time we decided to have a bath in the wild beach surrounded by coconuts and palm trees ;)
While boating through the canal the sailors were singing a nice Malagasy coral music and suddenly we have the chance to see the kingfisher working on his daily routine between the reeds and the savage avocados. It was a little hard to take a picture of it but we made it!!