RUST magazine: Mission Madagascar Touratech United People of Adventure 2016
RUST magazine: ‘Trip of a lifetime’ is a much-overused phrase, but it can be correctly applied here. Madagascar is an incredible island and this moto-adventure was something special too – far more challenging and risky than perhaps even the organisers (Touratech) could have imagined. RUST was there, with our editor being the appointed writer to the tour. Never short on words, certainly not short on images either – here we are presenting a 60-page special edition to celebrate the United People of Adventure.
RUST magazine: ‘Trip of a lifetime’ is a much-overused phrase, but it can be correctly applied here. Madagascar is an incredible island and this moto-adventure was something special too – far more challenging and risky than perhaps even the organisers (Touratech) could have imagined. RUST was there, with our editor being the appointed writer to the tour. Never short on words, certainly not short on images either – here we are presenting a 60-page special edition to celebrate the United People of Adventure.
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<strong>Touratech</strong>’s UPoA<br />
gifts they had given earlier. <strong>Touratech</strong> are<br />
establishing a lasting relationship with the<br />
orphanage, there will be fundraising for it<br />
at the Travel Event this year. Ethical<br />
adventuring, you might say.<br />
If that wasn’t enough <strong>of</strong> an introduction to<br />
the local community, then on the second<br />
morning in <strong>Madagascar</strong> the UPoA met with<br />
what seemed like most <strong>of</strong> Antalaha and the<br />
surrounding region. A meet and greet had<br />
been organised with the town’s mayor and<br />
all the town were invited to meet the riders at<br />
the local sports ground. The occasion started<br />
gently, but steadily more and more people<br />
arrived. The meeting became altogether<br />
more exciting when the mayor suggested the<br />
UPoA bikes could be ridden around the sand<br />
track that circles the main pitch. And soon<br />
enough the UPoA riders got the hang <strong>of</strong>
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