On the Road again...

[Kristof]

Update start here: https://advbannedcamp.com/viewtopic.php ... 200#p75304

Ramena Beach:

[Kristof]

The "road":







Photo taken by a co-worker:




This bridge, on the picture with the drone, like many others must be replaced:




other bridge:

[Delicate Snowflake]

[campfire]

Wow!

Those roads make the California roads look really good.

[Kristof]

November 20th

On Thursday and Friday I made the round trip (2h+2h) during the day and as I had to go back on Monday, I decided to drive on Sunday to discover the tip of Ankify, to stay overnight and on Monday morning, just one hour to get back to the office including 50 minutes to make the 20km between Ankify and the national road...
Ankify is the place from where the boats leave for Nosy Bay, the boats with the passengers only cross in the morning because afterwards the sea is "bad" (wind and wave)

I stayed at the Baobab hotel, it was closed for almost 3 years and we were only 3 clients...
Room directly on the beach, good, except that the beach is public and therefore on Sunday there are people around your "hut"...

Before joining the hotel I followed the track until the end, it passes in the village then at the edge of the beach and ends in the yard of a house in the hill...





















To follow, "hotel Baobab"

[Kristof]

"Hotel Baobab"

[Kristof]

Ambanja November 18
RN6 Main Street - (RN= Route Nationale)

Honda & Yamaha




Peugeot 404




Titan (it's only the second full size pick up I've seen here in the north)

[Kristof]

Saturday 26 I went to Diego Suarez to change the tires of the L200, the rainy season is coming slowly and now I have more adapted tires (yes they put what they had and it is the maximum size...)

At the town entrance: "Les Gang"

[campfire]

Excellent report! I love seeing all of your adventures (especially with the tyres) and the roads.

[Kristof]

Excellent report! I love seeing all of your adventures (especially with the tyres) and the roads.

Thank you, I have added some videos, made with the phone,
Here the most important is the horn, otherwise on the "road" everything is possible you have to be very careful...
https://www.youtube.com/@KristofGranit/videos

I overtake 2 Mercedes trucks


and here a Land Cruiser + a Pajero


Crossing the center at Ambilobe
(check the young boy with the bike...)

[Delicate Snowflake]

[Kristof]

Saturday 10th:
Beginning of the rainy season, the new bridge is not yet ready, the bypass has been washed away...
Road blocked for 5 hours...

[Kristof]

Saturday 17th we closed our site for the Christmas vacations and Sunday I went to Diego Suarez, I had to take a first plane on Tuesday morning for the (French) island of La Reunion and in the evening a flight to Paris.
But Tuesday after the check-in, while we were in the boarding room, it was announced to us that the flight was cancelled and postponed to another date, maybe in 48h...

I went back to the hotel and my company took another flight but this time through the capital, so yesterday morning 2 hours to reach Antananarivo, one night in the hotel and this Thursday evening I have to take a flight to France.
In the end 2 days of delay.

Tuesday to "wait" I rented a quad and I went to the "3 bays".

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Sunday 18th - Diego Suarez

Ramena Beach


My pick-up, the track goes directly to the beach.


Citroën DS21


Renault 4L

[Kristof]

Tuesday 20th - Diego Suarez airport

we come out of the boarding "hall"


we have to take back our suitcase:



rented Quad, 3 hours ride, mostly on tracks




I have already been to this bay, it's the one with the kit-surf camps


"Baie des pigeons":


"Baie des dunes":



Cap Miné Lighthouse


Old French military camp:

[Kristof]

Antananarivo 22nd

Today I went to the bike store, on my way a very nice Vespa 400 it was Made in France at the time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespa_400



At Honda/KTM:



Then Kawasaki and Polaris:



Yesterday inside a taxi Renault 4L

(Hand made system)




The guy pulling the cart is barefoot, in town on asphalt under the sun...


In the city, there are many beggars, including children, who come to the windows of cars in traffic jams.
Nothing to do with the North, people are just as poor but they don't beg...

[Delicate Snowflake]

[Kristof]

Sunday 01/08
Hello and happy new year to all.
After 2 weeks in France, I am back in the North of Madagascar.

Some pictures:

Paris Saint Germain des Près:


Le Louvre (view from the river La Seine):


La Pyramide:


L'Opéra:


Galeries Lafayette:




Le Printemps:




Tour Eiffel:




View from "Les Tuilleries":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuileries_Garden

Notre Dame:


The famous TGV, more than 300km/h:


the new model with 2 floors, still goes a little above 300km/h


Brittany:

[Kristof]

Hotel room in Brittany:




Friday evening, only 2 flights at the CDG Airport 2A so almost nobody inside...




Sunday morning at the national Antananarivo airport:




On arrival at Diego Suarez, "Saltworks":
https://www.madacamp.com/Salines_d%27Antsahampano




No need to look for the delivery belt for your luggage, there is only one:

[Kristof]

Excellent report! I love seeing all of your adventures (especially with the tyres) and the roads.

New year, new tyres, new car...

New tyres: Pirelli Scorpion All Terrain Plus


New car, Toyota HiLux
https://www.toyota-gib.com/eng/models/d ... NFSXN.html





Built in South Africa, as the Ford Ranger we have:




Fish:


"near miss"
No one was hurt, the compactor was close to the tree, but it did not hit it.
I can't imagine if instead of driving off the road he had entered an overloaded bush cab..
The operator was drunk...






Some short videos at Ambanja and on the way back to Ambilobe:

[Kristof]

01/28
Last week there was the first cyclone of the season, we were in the "red zone" and we closed our site for a day.
But nothing "special" (for us) just rain (a lot) and wind.
The rain stayed all week and in the south the road is cut in 3 places, pictures from the net: