Make sure you bring enough money for your trip
When you're heading for an unfamiliar destination, it's often hard to know how much money to allocate for your expenses. It would be tragic to risk spoiling the trip of a lifetime because you've blown your budget, so for what it's worth, these are some of the items that we discovered that we had to incorporate into our Madagascar travel fund.* When we visited (November 2008), there was a visa requirement - can't remember exactly how much, but it was of the order of US$100 per person (the only advantage was that this could be bought on arrival in Tana). This requirement has been waived at the time of writing (May 2010), but Governments have a nasty knack of reintroducing visa requirements without sufficient warning or publicity, so make sure you check prior to your trip. Thankfully, at the time of writing, there is no departure tax (a speciality of many developing world countries that...
