Madagascar Travel Podcast with Hery Rakoto is a slow, place-based guide to the world's fourth-largest island. Travelling here means moving between a narrow coastal plain, a central high plateau and an arid south, while hearing Malagasy and French in daily use. The island's isolation has produced species that exist nowhere else, and its rivers and roads carry their own rhythms.
Early episodes keep a base in Antananarivo, the capital on the high plateau. Later the host moves east to Toamasina, the country's main port, then south to the spiny forest country around Toliara and inland to Fianarantsoa, the highland town known for its surrounding rice terraces.
The show unfolds across dry-season months and wet-season months, returning to the same highland towns and eastern coastline. Each visit adds a layer; a market becomes recognisable, a route through the hills becomes familiar. Over two years the podcast accumulates the kind of knowledge that comes from living somewhere, not passing through.
Hery Rakoto lives in Madagascar and stays for two years, moving between cities, coastlines and smaller towns on a route that follows the seasons. Not a week-long visit — Hery is there in every kind of weather, working out where to eat on an ordinary Tuesday, which train to take, what a festival actually feels like from the pavement.
A new episode arrives every day. Each one is short and specific: one neighbourhood, one journey, one meal, one museum worth the detour — with the practical detail that matters. What it costs. When it closes. Whether the queue is worth it. What to do when it rains. Every episode carries a full transcript and chapter markers.
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Hery spends his last full day in Antalaha, walking the Tanambao market for green vanilla auctions, visiting a curing house to see the drying process, and navigating the practicalities of leaving the SAVA region. He covers local costs, banking logistics, and the upcoming journey east.
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Episode 66 of Madagascar Travel Podcast with Hery Rakoto. Hery Rakoto is in Antalaha, Madagascar.
Places in this episode: Tanambao, Maka Coffee Shop, Tanambao Market, Sarahandrano, Maherifody, Baie d'Antongil, Masoala National Park, RN5a.
Covered: Vanilla Economy & Curing, Daily Costs & Inflation, Banking & Residency Logistics, Transport & Infrastructure, Market Economics.
Chapters:
00:00 Tanambao
01:47 Tanambao Market
03:41 Baie d'Antongil
05:39 RN5a
07:37 Bank of Africa
09:20 Chez Joice
A full transcript of this episode is available in supported apps.
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4 Oct 2026
Last Day in Antalaha Vanilla Curing and Stone Cutting
Hery spends his final full day in Antalaha, navigating the heavy swell warnings, visiting the vanilla curing houses, and reflecting on the SAVA economy before heading east.
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Episode 65 of Madagascar Travel Podcast with Hery Rakoto. Hery Rakoto is in Antalaha, Madagascar.
Places in this episode: Tanambao, Maka Coffee Shop, Bank of Africa, RN5a, Port of Antalaha, Cap Est, La Terrasse, Ankoalabe Market.
Covered: Vanilla Economy, Stone Cutting Crafts, Weather Risks, Local Costs, Travel Logistics.
Chapters:
00:00 Maka Coffee Shop
01:22 Tanambao
04:47 Cap Est
08:48 Chez Joice
A full transcript of this episode is available in supported apps.
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3 Oct 2026
Tanambao Market Rhythms and Stone Craftsmanship
Hery navigates the humid mornings of Antalaha, exploring the Tanambao market's vanilla auctions, the rhythmic clatter of stone-cutting workshops, and the practicalities of living in Madagascar’s spice capital.
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Episode 64 of Madagascar Travel Podcast with Hery Rakoto. Hery Rakoto is in Antalaha, Madagascar.
Places in this episode: Tanambao, BOA Branch, Chez Joice, Maka Coffee Shop, Tanambao Market, Ambondrona, Bank of Africa, Gare Routière Nord.
Covered: Vanilla Market Economics, Stone Cutting Artisans, Banking & Residency Logistics, Daily Cost of Living, Urban Exploration Tanambao, Weather & Sea Conditions.
Chapters:
00:00 Tanambao
03:23 Ambondrona
06:40 La Terrasse
09:28 Shop
A full transcript of this episode is available in supported apps.
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