Transport in Tana

(I don't blog here anymore, but this post was published on my other blog The Great Escape, and is relevant here, so I thought I would reproduce it.)

I am on day 4 of my nine-day trip to Madagascar. These were just a few photos that I snapped on the way from home near Ivato airport to the Jumbo Score supermarket on the Digue road ... This is by no means a complete example of modes of transport on the roads of Antananarivo (the capital) but very typical of what one might come across at any time on any given day. Rory, one of my readers and a friend from back home, told me I should use more "manly" subjects if I wanted to attract more men to my blog. Well, this is one of those ...

Running repairs (I wonder what he's planning on doing with those scissors?)

These carts are used to transport pretty much anything that can be transported in Tana.
This man is waiting outside the local supermarket Shoprite for potential clients.
That is one vintage Peugeot next to him - in fact, I think my great-grandfather may have owned one...

 

Another photo of the patient transporter

A smaller cart than the previous one, as well as a man with his wheelbarrow transporting charcoal.

A Citroën 2CV from yester-year but very much still in use...

And when all one has is one's own two feet ...

Horsepower? No, manpower...

Not particularly big or tall ... but seriously strong for his size.

See "More of Tana's traffic" and "Weird Rides" for other examples of Tana's weird and wonderful transport methods - but which were not gathered in only a day, like the ones for this post.