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The distance between Salari and Toliara is 70km. The trip took nine hours. Most of the time at least twice as many people as seats were somehow crammed on top of baskets full of tomatoes or fish, live chickens and cardboard boxes and suitcases and bags and bottles and everything. The cargo and passengers changed at every stop, placing infants of varying ages in my lap and soon convincing Arnaud that standing in the aisle was the more comfortable way to travel. One child I held for a few hours…