Ifaty
August 4, 2012
A weekend of
relaxation as Lisa and I head to Ifaty via the National Highway #9, is what was
ahead of us today. We met our taxi
driver, Frederick, in Toliara at Todd
and Patsy’s. He was on time at 8am and we were off through town and heading
north to Ifaty. The drive around town was rough in terms of road conditions
(like driving in Quebec- well maybe worse!), but we are used to it now. Once we turned the
corner and headed towards the “highway” we realized that the one hour drive
might take us longer than we anticipated. Below is a picture of the highway
from my point of view in the backseat.
Frederick
explained to us that the French left in 1960 and since then the road has become
what it is today. The government does
not invest money into the road system as the people just take the tar from the
pavement. They use the tar from the road
to repair their boats, repair a leak or use it for patching their houses. So at
best the road was full sand. At times you could see what it used to be like
when it was paved but that was only along the sections of road where no villages
were close by.
We continued
along the road meeting a river. But there is no water in
the river.
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