Getting around by bus and coach Tana – Antananarivo

Serves Antsirabe, Fianarantsoa, Ambositra, Ranohira, Tuléar, Fort-Dauphin, Morondava, Mananjary and Manakara. Towards the south: Antsirabe (3 h of travel, 20,000 Ar) Ambositra (5 h, 30,000 Ar), Fianarantsoa (9 h, 45,000 Ar), Ambalavao (at least 10 h, 50,000 Ar), Ihosy (12 h, 50,000 Ar), Ranohira (14 h, 70,000 Ar) and Tuléar (18 h, 55,000 Ar). To the west: Morondava (12 h, 55 000 Ar). To Fort-Dauphin: at least 3 days of travel, count 140 000 Ar.

Gare de l'Est serves several towns: Moramanga (10,000 Ar), Brickeville (30,000 Ar), Vatomandry (25,000 Ar), Mahanoro (36,000 Ar) and Marozevo (10,000 Ar). For Andasibe, get off at Moramanga to take a second taxi-brousse; add 5,000 Ar for this second trip. The taxi-brousse leaves at 4 a.m., then runs every hour until 6-6.30 p.m... in theory. As always in Madagascar, you'll need to have plenty of time on your hands for such a trip, as the unexpected can happen all the time.

The North and East station serves the North (via the RN 4) and East (via the RN 2) regions, and more precisely Diego, Majunga, Tamatave, Foulpointe or Ambanja (pier for Nosy Be at Ankify). To Diego, count from 120 to 190 000 Ar for a trip of about 30 hours. Towards Majunga, from 105 to 150 000 Ar for a 12 hours drive. To Tamatave, several times a day. Count more or less 8 hours of travel. By minibus, count 30 000 Ar. By bus ("Boeing"), count 35 000 Ar. These travel times are estimated.

The! station! It joins towns and villages not accessible by conventional car (the programme, donc tracks). Serve Ambatondrazaka, Andilamena or Tanambe.