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Norali Says: This activity wouldn't take you a long time since it's about a typical coutryside village mainly living on subsistance farming, without any specific activity other than rice cultivation and zébu breeding (see my local custom tips for more).However, it gives you sceneries of...
Walk in the ricefields, on the dikes
Norali Says: The walk in the ricefields, or at least on the dikes that pass through them, is a good way to exercise (you walk and can do that for some hours if you like), to learn about activities related to rice cultivation, clay brick moulding and baking. As a matter of fact, you'll...
Browse the Northern Tana area for historical sites
Norali Says: The Avaradrano (Northern Tana) area counts many royal villages & sacred hills. Each hill used to be ruled by its king before getting gradually merged, in the 18th cent., into the Imerina kingdom (in the area of what nowadays Greater Tana).Most presitigious, Ambohimanga, for...
Restaurant à la maison ;-): Home is best :-)
Norali Says: To know more of the Malagasy cuisine I use to enjoy in Malaza, check the below website.Basically, staple food is rice, as all over the island of Madagascar. Meat: add zébu, pork, poultry product. Other protein sources: fish and seafood.. we are on an island, right ?However,...
No clubs, no bars: you, friends, music and sunset
Norali Says: .. and drinksSnapped it while having some drinks at my sister's loftish apartment. Was having a chat and bigh laughters with my sis and her hubby as well as with my cousin and his wife when we noticed this sunset. Not that usual. An orange hue, like a flamboyant fire in the...
A motorbike is your best bet...
Norali Says: To go to Malaza, any car would fit in dry season. Even potholes in the last section to my home should be dry, then no mud. Your chance to be stuck in them is close to none. When it comes to Malaza in summer, only 4wd and motorbike would fit for this last section. One minute...
None... well, maybe something...
Norali Says: Apart from some poultry produce and veggies, nothing to buy over there, except that those are all natural food that you'd buy from peasants.Still, in the heavy buys section, you'd buy sand (yeah! yeah!), baked bricks (our area is known for clay bricking making).Now, I tell...
Norali Says: Just as I said that Lorraine wouldn't be alone to take over, the following generation will have to master acapella singing. Not karaoke. Acapella singing. You should be able to sing without notes, without instrument except light ones: such as flute, harmonica or guitar.It's...
Norali Says: Lorraine won't be alone in taking over Dol and co. See those instruments, they are the oldest of my nephews. They really had fun playing to warm the party along with "djs" and the singers...What is funny in this pictue is that the three nephews in front are older than my two...
Just a warning about a local feature
Norali Says: Let's put it that way: Malaza wouldn't be the same without those potholes. Oxcarts are accountable for the conditions of this section, the last one leading to my house (see picture). It used to be so every summer: it's customary to find a car stuck in the mud during a rainy...
Norali Says: Those are the "dangers" of the area. It may happen when you cross them returning from the fields at 5pm. This is the time when sun sets and all field activitites cease: no soil labouring, no field works, no harvesting anymore. Then, at 5pm, countrymen and their cattles,...
Norali Says: - walking: tennis shoes / walking shoes- beaming sun: sunglasses, sunlotion, a cap/hat- cooler evenings: add windbreaker or jumper in July-Aug-SepIn winter where weather is dry, more dust, my scarf uses to be very useful. I use to just cover my mouth & nose with it...
Norali Says: The birds one can spot in my area. For some, the kingfisher, fodys, an easy sight... For others, you'd consider yourself lucky whenever you can see one.Photo 2: for years, have only heard its song... the first time I could really spot it was while returning from a trek. As I...
Norali Says: May is the start of what I use to name "the burning season". Not that it is hot, it is not ! It is the beginning of the cold & dry season. The season of rice has just finished: the rice cultivators had harvested end April-May. After harvest, it is time to plough other plots...
Go browse around.. by bike, on foot, horseriding 2
Norali Says: Just to contradict the assertion in the above tip: it can get lush. Just depends on your season of the year to visit the area. These were Laniera plains pictured in end of summer (March) whilst the above picture of the same area was snapped in the middle of dry winter...
Go browse around.. by bike, on foot, horseriding
Norali Says: When in Malaza, it is quite customary for visitors and urbaners to browse the area for some fresh air, for some hike, for sightseeing.I would never repeat it: in seemingly hollow Malaza (no shop, no bar, no club), it's its serene and relaxing landscape that people seek for....
Norali Says: So, how to get there ?In Tana, tell your driver (I assume you, as a tourist, wouldn't drive, would you ?) that Malaza is very near to the Royal city of Ambohimanga, about 17 km from the city center. Tell him to pass through Sab-Nam (Sabotsy Namehana), Antsofinondry then...
Is stubborness what we are well-known for ?
Norali Says: ..or, "Malaza ~ The reported origins"A brief attempt at describing the origins of "Malaza". "Malaza" literally means "Well-known". For years, I've been wondering what our beloved village could be well-known for. I've looked around & compared my "Malaza" to other villages in...
Norali Says: What I like most about sunsets is not really watching the sun setting, rather the play of warm lights on water surfaces, on carmin & ochre walls, on the diversified canvases that are locals faces. On the latter, mostly, smiles, dreaming eyes while watching the red, orange,...
Norali Says: Malaza is a little village North of Antananarivo (Tana for insiders), Tana being capital city of Madagascar.It is where my Dad's family comes from (his Dad side, that is). It is where we landed after some years living in Tana itself (center & suburbs). Initially, my Dad...
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Those are the "dangers" of the area. It may happen when you cross them returning from the fields at 5pm. This is the time when sun sets and all field...
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Talking about Malaza Avaradrano (as opposed to Malaza Atsimondrano). [Update March 16 2006: Just found out lately that Malaza Avaradrano (North of Tana, near Ambohimanga) is not in the VT database.......
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