Around the world - Madagascar - Break day

Salame dear friends, family and the unknown but very welcome readers. I believe, my entry today is going to be rather expeditious for I am absolutely not inspired. I hope you will forgive me.

We spent the day in Fianarantsoa (or Fianar for the intimates!). Went for a walk into the town and after 4h of walking and not seeing much, we went back to the hotel. Fianar is the 2nd largest city divided into 3 parts: Lower town (Basse ville), New town (Nouvelle ville) & Upper town (Haute ville). The city is surrounded by hills and maybe except for the upper town, it is rather busy and chaotic. 

Today, more than ever - I get the impression that people here in Madagascar have no concept of beauty, sophistication, there is no real culture or history to explore and discover. Deforestation is killing the country very quickly, hygiene and health are just scary factors. Maybe that's why I'm not inspired today. All of that makes me feel sad and disappointed by the lack of will. They all just shake their shoulder and say "oh well, that's the way it is here in Mada".

After a quick pizza lunch break, we went to the train station to find out about the train (called FCE) for tomorrow. Unfortunately, we were informed that the train was broken (but in reparation) and we should come back the next morning at 6am to see if it would be ready or not. So the rest of the afternoon was really about taking it easy. 

The program of the day? Reading, eating fruits from today's market (which was huge, by the way!), taking a nap, watching a movie (Dead man down with the very handsome Collin Farrell), reading some more, getting ready for dinner in the dark because the whole town went into blackness mode with the loss of electricity. So we had yet another pizza because they couldn't cook without the electricity. And back we went to the reading and sleeping. 

The Fun fact of the day (the only one) would be this one - every time it was a prayer time (Muslim), a dog would "sing" along with the muezzin calling out. The dog didn't miss one single call, was right on time and sang through the whole procedure!