Madagascar

Madagascar surftrip: the jouney along the south coast of madagascar was the most intense and most special surftravel i have done so far. We were driving for days without seeing another car, stayed at very remote villages where people have to walk some kilometers to get drinking water, and of course dont have electricity or engines for their fishing boats. The people we met were very friendly and even if they live under very harsh circumstances they seemed to be proud and not looking up to our materialistic wealth like people we met in other developping countries. We became good friends with Tsilavo, a malagsy from Fort Dauphine who did join us for most of our trip and who we are still in touch with. The surfspots we found were mostly reefs, sometimes kilometers away from the coast only to reach by the little sailing pirogues (boats). Some of those surfsessions i will never forget, barreling waves, and just us alone with whales and dolphines around the line up.

: the island of madagascar is very colourfull in its diversity no matter if animals, people or landscapes

: inland you can see that madagscar is part of the ancient continent

: Local crocodile

: Baobab Tree

: The roads, if there are any are rough and empty

: Main transport vehicle on land

: Main transport vehicle on water, sometimes its better to travel inside of the reefs using the traditionel pirogue than to travel by car

: Bibi and Tsilavo are completing our kitchen equipment on a local market

: Fishermens harbour, at sunset they come back to the village

: Everybody comes down to get some piece of the turtle some fishermen caught that day

: Women with a fish

: Around sunrise

: We were attending some good parties were people were playing on their home made instruments

: There is not much left of this village, the wind and the sand makes a living almost impossible and most of the people already moved on to a new village. we did stay there for a week in this clay hut and in our tents to wait for the sandstorm to die dow

: The kitchen inside our clay hut, the only water we could find was salty brown water out of the local drain

: Step 1 to learn how to sail a pirogue and become a fishermen

: When ever we put up our kites we did get the full attention of the whole village

: Around Fort Dauphine you see a lot of sharks caught by fisherman to sell the fins to chinese business man

: Ding repair

: Local Surfers

: Two Vezos are waiting for the sunrise. The vezos, a local tribe are building these pirogues out of 8 differnt types of wood. They are nomades on the sea living on these boats travelling along the coast between the reefs and the islands