Madagascar (March, 2010) – I was definitely not prepared for the odyssey ahead, adventuring in what the locals called ‘zebu 4x4’. We arrived in the middle of nowhere; to find a rather medieval looking wooden cart and two huge zebu being harnessed and hitched to what turned out to be our transportation. We were hauled; tossed and shaken about through marshes and swamps filled with water lilies, under tamarind trees and eventually through rice paddies. The mise-en-scène was rather glorius.