Morondava: A Misty Dreamland of Baobabs & Bizarre Delights

🌅 Surreal Encounters Gift for kindness: Gave a hotel maid a Chinese hairpin → she repaid me with a rooftop locust hunt at sunset (!) Vanilla: 100 AR for real bourbon vanilla pod-infused soy milk—weirdly delicious Price paradox: Industrial goods: Crazy expensive (Coke 5,500 AR) Local labor: Dirt cheap (beef noodles 3,000 AR, takeout bag 1,000 AR) 🚍 How to Get Here ✈️ Plane (If you’re lucky): 1hr flight from Tana → but only 2 weekly flights (often canceled) 🚐 Overnight Bus: Cotisse Transport / Vatsi: 60,000 AR, departs 6:30AM → arrives 10PM Survival tip: Buy 2 seats to lie down (or snag the front passenger throne) 🚗 Road Trip Gold: Villages of mud huts, epic savanna vistas rivaling Baobab Avenue Must-stop: 1 RMB avocados bigger than your fist! 🏨 Sleep & Explore 💰 Budget Pick: Havana Guesthouse (50,000-70,000 AR) Police station ↔️ Market ↔️ Beach all within 30 steps 🌴 Splurge: Beach resorts (book online) 🎒 DIY Adventures: Baobab Avenue sunset (classic) Kirindy Forest (lemurs & fossas) Bemaraha Tsingy (limestone cathedrals) Betania canoe village (authentic Vezo life) #BaobabDreams #MadagascarRoulette #LocustDinnerUnplanned