This is my last day in Madagascar. I’m, sadly, flying out tomorrow.

The last 6 days were enjoyed in Madagascar’s most northern city of Diego Suarez. These days defiantly made up my summer vacation this year, hence I didn’t do much. Most of the time, I was just hanging out around the city’s beaches and bars with a French student from Reunion I met on the hotel (he reminds one remarkably well of the turtles in ‘Finding Nemo’).

The most action packed episodes here included following:

Renting a car (to find new beaches).

Buying our way into a 4-stared hotel pool area (where I spend a day sipping Mojitos).

Eating crocodile at a restaurant (tastes like a mix of chicken and fish).

Hanging around the hotels roof, chewing khat (now don’t say that. It’s just crewing on a plant – it’s perfectly natural… Cows do it all day), before hitting the nightlife hard!

Nightlife here could be more fun if there were fewer prostitutes. The opposite, of course, applies if you have poor morals!

Yesterday I spend 30 hours in a, long but rather pleasant, minibus, backtracking 1150 km back to Tana. Today I’m blowing the last of my money on expensive cafés, fancy cakes and nice restaurant – there is no fun in exchanging back to Euros.

All in all, this entire trip has been nothing but great!

Overall distance travelled in Mada: 2.500 kilometers (not included inner-city travel, to and from the airport, ect.).

Means of transportation: On foot, by motocross bike, minibus, pickup truck and boat.

National parks visited: 2 (overall stay: 7 days)

Number of dives made: 2

Road kill passed: 1 zebu (cow), 6 chickens, 4 rats, 3 cats, 2 lemurs, 2 dogs, and a man in his early forties :(

Overall budget: 13.500 DKK (1.800 €)

Budget minus flight tickets: 7.500 DKK (1.000€)

No. of sick days: 1

No. of great days: 34

No. of bath Ask had have since the 16/7: 12 (getting sandy and salty on the beach, and my hotel in Diego was the only second on the trip with hot water helped double the number).

4 years of travelling and shitty jobs is now over – it’s time to grow up and start a new chapter. I’ll miss being a ‘travel bump’, and I think it’s doubtful if I ever cast that definition of myself totally overboard.

It’s been 4 years of fun, with few obligations. That’s gonna chance now! Even though rumors have it that the university life is fun, it’s all in Denmark – and there is so much of the world I haven’t seen… I actually still have drawn up plans for longer trips in both Africa, South America as well as in Central Asia. Now – if I’m lucky – my budget will allow few days of traveling. I hope 10 days a year or so will be enough. I’ll just have to spice the locations up with New York, Somalia and Turkmenistan then.

Bonus info: A local prostitute will set you back 12€, if you don’t bargain that is.