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Humped cattle, matching mountains, Madagascar

Published November 18, 2018 by Pelidoug

India was once Madagascar’s eastern half.

The ancestors of Madagascar’s emblematic domesticated animal – the zebu – came from South Asia, after the aforementioned “split”.

Every Wednesday morning Ambalavao holds Madagascar’s largest zebu market.

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Published October 8, 2018 by Pelidoug

All photos copyright Doug Spencer, taken on Wednesday May 16, 2018.

As you drive south, Ambalavao is the last major town in Madagascar’s central highlands.

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Published June 17, 2018 by Pelidoug

“Languid”, “calm”, “quiet”, “gentle”…could such words ever properly describe a market, let alone a butcher’s shop within one?

They did in fact fit our experience of the covered market in Antsirabe, late on the morning of 12 May 2018.