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Africa Madagascar StoriesNovember 12, 2015November 5, 2017

Travel Stories: My First (Scary) Night in Madagascar

  That night, Madagascar greeted me at the airport with a thick, smoky darkness, a gruff one-toothed driver and a taxi with a door that flew open around corners. I had arrived in south-west Madagascar to live and work amongst the Vezo fisher folk who subsisted entirely off the spoils of the Toliara reef system.…

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One time when I was backpacking through New Zealand, I tripped over a curb and fell flat on my face. My backpack got so twisted around my body that it took me fifteen minutes to extricate myself from its straps.

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