Getting around is a problem in Madagascar. The capital city of Antananarivo is extremely hilly. Roads are narrow and cars must compete with pedestrians, trucks and carts pulled by huge bullocks, or zebus. Stalls and street vendors encroach on the street selling all kinds of meat and produce and books. It was said there are120,000 automobiles now in the capital.
Rickshaws give the visitor the impression of stepping back into another century.
Huge carts carrying freshly killed cows are pushed through the streets. Vans move through pedestrians like Moses parting the Red Sea. In only one week the group saw two accidents, one of which involved two trucks and clearly resulted in a fatality. A melange of cultures Madagascar is geographically part of Africa but the Malagasy are a melange of cultures. The physical features of many more closely resemble those of Fijians or Malaysians.