Today would be our final full day in Madagascar.
Tsiry picked us up at the hotel, and we headed out into town. Below are a few photos of another driving tour through Tana.
Traffic in Antananarivo…
Very nice house under construction… Notice the bamboo scaffolding.
Nice new house…
Another nice new house…
The houses above are part of a newly built subdivision near a small lake in Antananarivo. Tsiry said they would probably cost about 1.4 Billion Malagasy Francs, which works out to about $145,000 Canadian Dollars. I wish we could build places like this in Toronto for that price!
Here’s a lookout area along a street in Tana.
Nice views from the lookout…
Knowing that I love boats, Tsiry took us to a local place, just up the road from where they live, that makes hand-crafted model ships. They do beautiful work here, and you’re interested, I think they ship to Canada. Tsiry and Anita insisted on buying me one, which is now on display in my office at work. Here are some photos of the displays in the store.
As it turns out, getting the ship back to Canada was quite easy. The store packaged the ship very well, placing it on a nice cradle built into a large cardboard box and tied it so it wouldn’t fall over. They even delivered it to the airport for us in time for our flight home.
It was then time to go to Nadine’s stepmother’s house for lunch. As shown in the picture below, we were slightly delayed by a very intense rainstorm that just appeared while we were inside shopping.
We arrived at Nadine’s stepmother’s house for lunch. It’s not far from her sister’s place. Nadine’s father build this house several years ago, but Nadine had never seen it before, as he moved there after Nadine moved to North America back in the mid-90s. Below are some photos from our visit.
The dining/living room…
The house, taken from the terrace on top of the garage…
The driveway…
Fields behind the house…
Peeking over the fence to the neighbour’s nicely-kept yard…
After a nice lunch, we did some more shopping and then headed back to the hotel to change for dinner. For our final evening in Madagascar, Nadine and I went out to dinner with Anita and Tsiry at a very nice restaurant. Below are some photos from dinner.
Here is Nadine’s dinner…
Dave’s dinner…
Nadine and Anita…
Dave and Nadine…
By the time we finished dinner, it was getting close to midnight, so we headed back to the hotel.