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CONTENTS

Culture and tradition

Words Of The North

Terrestrials excursions: 1-5 d

Climbings

Trekking

VTT Circuits

Excursions by sea

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CULTURE AND TRADITION

 

 

Hello, hello, hello!  

To facilitate your stay and that you are nearer of the Malagasy, know that a "hello" is very important because keep to the mind that everybody should know "himself " (not of gate) and that everybody needs one as the other (system of our social security).  

The one that arrives in the island without taking the initiative to nor communicate to have contacts would have been mistaken on its destination.  

We have like you a lot of qualities to transmit.

Example: If your neighbor's child broke or stolen your object, the parents of the two side first find a solution to the amicable.  

-  The Fati-dra: To accept a friend and to consider he like the family's member (bound by blood) and that will have are also right to the inheritance if there is some.  

-The Famadihana: (turning) By three reasons:  

1) The family of the deceased would have seen in its dream that the extinct being shows an uncomfortable picture (dressed badly, the air to be cold, a sad decor...).  

2) The deceased would have died far from his home. On the stroke he/it arrives that the family doesn't have means to send the body, he is either buried or put in deposit. When financially the family is ready, turning makes is made to transport this body near his family.  

3) To Renew the cloths that envelop the remainder of the deceased, and especially for all the family to ask for the blessing of this last; everybody benefits to review (and to touch) the remainder of the body.

 

 

 

 

THE ESSENTIALS OF VOCABULARY

Amoung the 18 ethnies and dialects

1

Tonga soa

Welcome

2

Mbola tsara

Hello

3

Azafady

Please

4

Misaotra

Thank You

5

Otrino

How much

6

Veloma

Goodbye

7

Misy

There is

8

Tsy misy, tsisy

There is not

9

Tsara

Well

10

Tsara bé

Very well (bé = very)

11

Ratsy

Bad

12

Mila

To have need of

13

Aia

Where?

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