Leaving Tanzania for me means the end of the first leg, or section, of our trip. Although some people consider the island of Madagascar to be apart of the continent of Africa, it's an island that's been separated from the mainland for 140 million years! That means the people have developed quite differently. We saw differences between people in other East Africa countries, but mainly they were similar. We know in Madagascar we will see SO many animals and plants that are found no where else in the world, and the people have their own unique language called Malagasy.
It also feels, in a way, like the real trip is just beginning. September has started, so I feel like I should be back at school, and we've been traveling for two months now so any little comforts from home, like granola bars, have long since disappeared. We know the trip is about to get a lot harder because Madagascar is not very well visited by tourists. So in commemoration of the first leg of our journey, and because we finally got our video editing software to work, here is a glimpse of my trip so far set to one of my favourite songs. It is appropriately called, Our Ancestors, by Christopher Tinn, and the video starts with my experiences in Ethiopia, the beginning of civilization.
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