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ANTANANARIVO [Madagascar]
Antananarivo (Tana), with its brightly coloured houses stacked up the hillsides, mauve jacarandas and purple bougainvillea, is an attractive capital city. The rice paddies and zebu-carts on the outskirts provide a stark contrast to the noisy traffic, bustling markets and colourful people in the narrow cobbled streets of the city centre.
Tana has relatively little in the way of conventional sightseeing. Apart from the Tsimbazaza museum and Botanical Garden, activities revolve around shopping. The artisans' market shows an enormous array of quality Malagasy handicrafts including woodcarvings, raffia work, embroidered tablecloths and Antaimoro paper. Tana also boasts a lively mixture of excellent restaurants, bars and nightclubs.
Not to be missed in Antananarivo ...  |  Private Guiding The Pulse Africa WayPRESS RELEASE: Exclusive African safari consultants, Pulse Africa, are expanding their services to their clients, by creating a private guiding division. |
 | Faces of Madagascar On our first night in the Madagascan capital of Antananarivo, we sat in a chintzy Creole restaurant eating Zebu and red rice in the company of many tribes. |
Our Antananarivo favourites...  | Madagascar - Honeymoon Itinerary Celebrate your wedding in a luxury retreat on Madagascar's west coast, where wildlife viewing is effortless and the variety of water sports endless. |
Our selected properties in Antananarivo... Our exclusive selection of properties range from comfortable, luxurious, exclusive and extravagant. The green symbol indicates exclusively yours properties that can be all yours.
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Royal Palissandre Hotel Tana Plaza Hotel The Colbert Hotel
Best time for visiting Antananarivo [Madagascar]... Avoid January, February and March
Meet our Madagascar experts...  | Robynne Fleming Robynne Fleming is one of our Southern African and Madagascar specialists. With her great love for the outdoors and the unusual, Robynne's holidays tend to be that little bit different. |
 | Stuart Inglis If you are interested in any of our destinations, but unsure of what you are looking for, what is available or where and when to go, then Stuart, Pulse Africa's Sales & Marketing Director who has travelled extensively throughout Africa, may be the ideal person to talk to. |
 | Nicci Lenferna Nicci has been involved with the safari industry for 15 years. Although she has a deep love for East Africa and has travelled extensively through southern Africa, her passion lies in Madagascar. Today, she is a leading expert in tours and travel to this fascinating destination. Nicci also specialises in group travel, conferences and incentives. |
What to do in Antananarivo...  | swimming pool |
 | cultural interaction |
 | guided walks |
 | historical sites |
 | recommended for honeymooners |
 | golf |
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