Madagascar is not the easiest place to get around. Many places simply have no roads, and are only accessible by oxcart, canoe, or on foot. We mostly stuck to the roads. This little road here is actually fairly decent. This is the end of the dry season - in a couple places the rains had just begun.
Even so, there were a few damp spots that needed crossing.
Oxcarts do a fairly decent job of getting across sandy stretches and fording rivers...
Four wheel drives, however, may require a little assistance.
When there isn't a bridge, sometimes you just drive across - this ford is only about 2 feet deep - doable. But it does make for a fun picture.
In some places, there are ferries. This one takes up to 6 vehicles, and is essentially this large platform welded to three long boats, two of which on the outside are fitted with motors. The gangplanks, and the way up for the vehicles, are at the right.
An incoming ferry - there are know to be crocodiles in this river! (Tsiribinha means "do not dive here" for good reason.)
A little nerve wracking when your ferry driver steers with his foot so he can take a smoke
And getting off the ferry - George never lost his cool, but this had to be delicate work!
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