"No metro neither tub in Tana" Top 5 Page for this destination Antananarivo Warnings Or Dangers Tip by Norali

If someone tells you that there is a "metro" or "tub" in center of Tana, beware! It does not exist there. This used to be a bad joke about sending tourists in a presumed metro/ tub station. In fact, it is a place of underground public toilets that used to be in center of then Analakely great market, late Zoma market... Up to now, no problem with that, except that it is a bad joke. In fact, the problem is that toilets there used to be so dirty and smelly... It's a bit mean from my compatriots' part but that's life!!
For years, so many tourists have been trapped by this joke!
Malagasy people use to be respectful of others but this one, I don't understand !

I was told that this is irony regarding poverty... as if the only tub Tana has is underground toilets.

[Update March 2005: anyway, you wouldn't fall into this trap anymore since the big Zoma market on Analakely doesn't exist anymore, only few stalls resisted. Then, you wouldn't really visit the area, the art market has moved away, so has the flower market, what is left is a plain market as the many the city counts. Those ochre tiled-roofed pavillions are parts of the market.

Besides, if you're looking for public toilets, you would find clean ones there, with dame-pipi whom you should pay off course.]