Tamatave (Toamasina)
Tamatave’s colourful Bazary Be sells fruit, vegetables, spices, handicrafts and beautiful bouquets of flowers (should you feel the need to brighten up…
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Madagascar's most important seaport, Tamatave is a hot, dusty and chaotic town full of decaying colonial buildings, roadside markets and throngs of pousse-pousse carts. The emphasis is on commerce, not tourism, apart from being an important transit point.
Tamatave (Toamasina)
Tamatave’s colourful Bazary Be sells fruit, vegetables, spices, handicrafts and beautiful bouquets of flowers (should you feel the need to brighten up…
Tamatave (Toamasina)
At Pl Bien Aimé, you'll find the remains of a once-grand park; a dozen magnificent banyan trees weep before a crumbling colonial mansion.
Tamatave (Toamasina)
A monument to those killed in the 1947 uprising against the French, this plaza is in a sad state of disrepair.
Tamatave (Toamasina)
Bazary Kely sells fish and produce in the ruins of a commercial complex, west of the train station.
Tamatave (Toamasina)
The small university museum at the entrance to the port constitutes barely 2½ rooms of farming tools, fishing implements, archaeological finds and tribal…
Tamatave (Toamasina)
Landmark church in Tamatave. It's open to the public from shortly before to shortly after services.
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