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A nice hotel in Antananarivo is the Sakamanga hotel. You can park your bicycle in a locked garage and there is also a left lugage room were you can store your bicyclebox and use it again on your returnflight. We had a room in the 'soft' categorie and it was already great (ask for room 15). It's useful to make a reservation.

The roads we cycled were in good condition (sometimes a few holes or bumpy). Only the last part to Morandava is bad but on your cycle it's easy to slalom between the holes. Also the northern route from the RN 7 to Ranamafana is unpaved and has lots of stones.

In the villages watch for shops/food stalls who sell fried bananas. Very nice and great food for cyclists.

Madagascar is 587.041 km2 big and has 20.653.556 (2009) inhabitants. The Netherlands is 41.528 km2 big and has 16.515.057 (2009) inhabitants.

Map:
-Madagascar 1:1.200.000 van Reise Know-How. On the main highway the map is ok. Only the distances are not always correct. For example the stretch from Ambositra to Ranomafana was 138 km instead of 105 km.

Guide:
-Lonely Planet van Madagascar & Comoren
-Bradt Travel Guides van Madagascar

Websites:
Tour of Madagascar by Michael Ayers
Madagascar Travel Guide

Route:
On the 20th of september we took a bus from Morondava to Antsirabe and on the 26th of september we took the train from Manakara to Fianarantsoa (GPS track train)