Dear Nicole, dear Klaus After we hit the bull's eye in 2013 with you as our guides, we decided to go deeper into the country with you. When we presented you with our proposals for a south piste tour, we were initially met with well-founded skepticism. Questions such as impassability and accommodations were at the center of our negotiations. Never before had you accompanied such a tour as we had requested. But soon the route was tailor-made and while for us the focus was on the flight bookings and the anticipation, for you it was the logistics that had to be mastered for this pilot project and you succeeded brilliantly. Then it got serious. The vacation had it in itself: approx. 2500 km pilot runway journey over the south cape Sainte Marie away = dream fulfillment for Norbert. Imagine standing at the southernmost point of Madagascar...you have to get there first. We were allowed to experience that and then somewhere far behind the horizon, where the water line merges into the sky, lies Antarctica...madness yet. Sweaty shirts, sand in the sandals forever, water bottle at hand, camera in pose, swimming in turquoise ocean, eating fish and crustaceans, strange flora and fauna, alien cultures, heat, sunsets...3 weeks hot-sandy-dusty-stony with you and our excellent driver Dam on the road - thank you for the feeling of security, competence, being cared for. The insider tip Eden Lodges worked out perfectly, the night in Kirindy Forest Lodge with the giant cockroaches and the flea infestation of Klaus completely off. That's the way it is when you sit on the sleeping place of a fossa. Unpleasant: Norbert's heart attack shortly before the end of the vacation. Immediately you looked for solutions. Through your tireless, selfless and competent actions, our joint journey home became possible. And especially on these few days of sorrow we felt your warmth of heart. Please think occasionally also of resting with e.g. the 5th piano concerto of L.v. Beethoven.... Thank you for a dream trip of the first order and to all those who will make this tour after us, we say: ouch, we were the first... We say "goodbye" if you like! We like want... Margitta and Norbert... Collapse