{"id":867,"date":"2015-05-31T15:25:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T13:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/?p=867"},"modified":"2015-10-31T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T14:39:29","slug":"cash-management-with-low-atm-reliability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/zh\/2015\/05\/31\/cash-management-with-low-atm-reliability\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash management with low ATM reliability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span title=\"Je faisais avant de venir qu'on trouve des distributeurs de billets (ATM) partout dans le pays.\">I read before coming to Madagascar that we find ATM throughout the country. <\/span><span title=\"Cela ne concerne que les villes, distantes de 100 \u00e0 200km.\">This only applies to the cities, distant from 100 to 200km. <\/span><span title=\"Pour les touristes avec leur propre v\u00e9hicule motoris\u00e9, cela se g\u00e8re facilement.\">For tourists with their own motor vehicle, it can be managed easily. <\/span><span title=\"Pour les voyageurs ind\u00e9pendants en taxi brousse ou comme moi \u00e0 v\u00e9lo, c'est une autre affaire.\">For independent travelers on bush taxi or by bicycle like me, that&#8217;s another story. <\/span><span title=\"Surtout quand le seul distributeur de la ville est en panne !\">Especially when the only ATM in the city is down! <\/span><span title=\"Cela m'arrive 2 fois de suite, \u00e0 Ambalavao et Ihousy, si bien que je dois attendre la r\u00e9paration du distributeur avant de commencer ma journ\u00e9e de v\u00e9lo !\n\">This happened to me twice, in Ambalavao and Ihousy, so I had to wait for the repair of the ATM before starting my bike day!<br \/>\n<\/span><span title=\"Il donc faut pr\u00e9voir suffisamment de cash pour quelques jours, surtout les parcs nationaux o\u00f9 les frais de guidage sont relativement \u00e9lev\u00e9s par rapport aux propositions de retrait des distributeurs.\">So it is necessary to get enough cash for a few days, especially for the national parks where the guide fees are relatively high compared to what you can get from the ATM. <\/span><span title=\"C'est dommage de devoir limiter ses activit\u00e9s par manque de cash !\">It&#8217;s a shame to limit the activities for lack of cash! <\/span><span title=\"J'ai d'ailleurs fortement sugg\u00e9r\u00e9 aux parcs et banques d'installer des distributeurs pr\u00e8s des parcs!\">I also strongly suggested to parks and banks to install ATM near the parks! You should always withdraw the max of the ATM, 400<\/span><span title=\"Il est donc pr\u00e9f\u00e9rable de retirer le max possible, 400k, mais on a alors 40 billets (10k est le + gros billet, qui vaut 3\u20ac!), une trop grosse liasse pour un portefeuille !\n\">k, and deal with the 40 bills (10k + is the biggest, worth \u20ac3!) in your wallet!<br \/>\n<\/span><span title=\"Il y aurait 40-45% de la population adulte avec un compte en banque.\">I&#8217;ve been said 40 to 45% of the adult population has a bank account. <\/span><span title=\"Cela concerne surtout les villes, puisqu'il n'y a pas de banques dans les villages.\">This concerns mainly the cities, since there are no banks in the villages. <\/span><span title=\"Il y a des d\u00e9p\u00f4ts agricoles tout de m\u00eame.\n\">There are still agricultural deposits.<br \/>\n<\/span><span title=\"Les transferts d'argent sont donc tr\u00e8s populaires, et semblent le principal business des op\u00e9rateurs mobile : il y a plus de stands Airtel\/Orange\/Telma 'money' que 'mobile' !\">Money transfers are very popular and seem to the main business of mobile operators: there are more Airtel \/ Orange \/ Telma &#8216;money&#8217;\u00a0stalls that &#8216;mobile&#8217; stalls! They get a transaction fee,<\/span><span title=\"La bonne commission sur chaque transaction est partag\u00e9e entre \u00e9metteur et r\u00e9cepteur.\"> shared between the transmitter and the receiver, who have to be on the same network.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read before coming to Madagascar that &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madagascar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31eG3-dZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}