The further we got from Toamasina, the nicer it gets. The villages/huts are genuinely nice, even the occasional shops seem better maintained than the city ones. Nature is very nice, the road occasionally goes by the sea.
Pic related, I smoked a cig here on a bathroom break. To any smoking anons - cigarettes here are very good, much like in LATAM/US, they don't smell of tar like the EU ones.
We reached our destination after 11 hours. Now, before the boat leaves for Sainte Marie, they need to take off all the luggage strapped on top of the bus. For some mysterious reason, only one specific guy can do it, and he got here three hours after the bus. Then the boarding took another hour, after walking through a shantytown with houses on water. I got banned for proxy/VPN and sent an appeal. Will post this after getting unbanned, and then make another post about the boat trip and impressions of Sainte Marie.
>>2820539
Thanks anon.
>>2820701
>Local men are non-violent
Well, I don't know about that. I've heard about robbery. I got extorted as well in Toamasina with a threat of violence. Will describe in next post - but the only thing lost was a pack of cigs.