{"id":995,"date":"2008-07-15T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T21:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onmytodd.org\/?p=995"},"modified":"2015-11-17T16:13:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T15:13:18","slug":"ambalavao-antsirabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"Ambalavao – Antsirabe"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bit of a weird day. I set out this morning towards the Andringitra massif, feeling very enthusiastic. I left the paved roads behind and cycled on bad tracks through an amazingly beautiful though exhaustingly hilly countryside.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, my paper maps didn’t have much detail of this area, and there were few settlements and people. I got lost. Those I asked for directions couldn’t help much, partly because I had no clue of village names and couldn’t really name the place I wanted to go to — I didn’t really know myself.<\/p>\n

At some point my spirit broke and I decided to cycle back to Ambalavao. Once there, I decided to hop on a bus and returned all the way to Antsirabe! In hindsight I don’t really know what made me do this. Possibly the fact that the boat is going back to Reunion in 2 weeks time, and according to my ticket I should be on it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, in hindsight, again, I’m a bit disappointed.<\/p>\n

Cycled: 79km<\/p>\n