first impressions

Though there are a million little things that are worth a detailed description - mostly including adjectives like fascinating, impressive and mindboggling - i will only give a very introductory report from my first two weeks on the island.

First, whoever wants to travel to Madagascar better brings a good cushion..you know, one of those you can buy in every airport terminal but you'd usually refrain from since it makes you look like a dog or cat after surgery. The thing is that despite all the potential beauty-related hesitation you might experience pre-buying this useful addition to your travel equipment, that's the way to survive the 9 to 11 hour plane ride.

Secondly?

Secondly comes another time when there's more time to write.