Hello my dear readers. It has been a while. Not that I had nothing to share. On the contrary. This country is full of stuff to blog about,...

Big brother I t  maybe six times smaller than its big brother in Arizona, but Isalo park in Madagascar is at least as spectacular as ...

Picture this. Sitting in a mini bus that drives calmly though rural Southern Madagascar, listening to Rihana's Diamonds in the sky. It ...

One of the most frequently used expression in daily life in Malagasy is: Inona Vao Vao (pronounce: Enoona Vavao?) Literally this mean: Ho...

Just a few days ago, Cyclone Haruna swept by on the West coast of Madagascar. This is very unusual, most cyclones, hurricanes, and tropical...

Had to try it out.... After my adventure at the silk worm farm, I visited the Cyclo Pousse Project in Anstirabe, another UNDP  project....

Madagascar is a country that will never cease to amaze me. I believe that after two and half years, I may have discovered 2% of all the sec...

A little while ago I wrote about the bush fires that 'destroyed' some of the Allee the Baobab, one of Madagascar's fantastic na...

As a language lover, I am always delighted to find foreign words in a language. Of course there are quite a few French words in the Malaga...

Yonder See the Steamboat Coming (free translation :-). Every year millions of Dutch children are singing this traditional Dutch Saint Nic...

Bush fires are a huge problem in Madagascar. People have all kinds of reasons to set fire to land: to clear it for agriculture, to burn use...

A Belgian guy asked me once: Susanne, do you know why carrots are orange ? He insisted that I, especially should know the answer to this q...

Red dresses under violet tree "Purple rain...purple rain"...this Prince song has suddenly gotten new meaning for me. Also, a ...