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Lodging and eating
Aux Bouganville: Good rooms, good food with big portions for good prices. Guides frequent the hotel grounds. You can visit the paper factory (if you ask they will also let you try for yourself). Down the street you will find street vendors selling different kinds of fried foods, if you buy them early in the morning right out of the oil they are generally safe and good tasting.

Lodging
Auberge du cheval blanc: Fairly big hotel (for Madagascar) not far from Ivato airport. OK standard and prices, food not the best, but OK for Madagascar. Negotiate taxi for the Croc farm outside the hotel (you should at least bargain to half of what is first asked, if asking directly outside the hotel).

Eating
Hotel Radama: Restaurant Tatao, Isoraka, tel: 2231927. Here you can order a meal consisting of all the seven royal dishes for 22 000 MGA. Very good, other courses on the menu also good and not expensive (the seven dishes dish is the most expensive one). Live tradisional music. Recommendable.

Transport
Do not pay for pre-booking, at least not if you are going to get picked up in Ambositra (something which is absolutely not neccessary and more expensive).

Lodging and eating
La Mira: More high end. Very clean. Good food, very friendly, garden, peaceful. Pricey, but they have rooms with shared bath (lacking mosquito nets). Offers motorized boats or pirogues.

Lodging and eating
Padoula (Chambres D'hotes): Good, clean, ok prices and good food. Friendly hosts.

Eating and sleeping
Domaine Nature: Very clean, high standard, good food, pricey, very nicely situated (price example: steak with pommes 8000 MGA 19.02.2006).

Eating
Goutaisie: Centrally. Some of the best food in Madagascar (in the lower price range). Clean, fresh fruits and vegetables also from own garden. Much vegetarian food, but also meat and seafood. Run by couple with experience from outside Madagascar. Fruit juices (although not 100% juice), cakes, cookies, bread, dinner, lunch, indian food. Frequented mostly by foreigners. Listed in Routard 2006.