Antsirabe
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Antsirabe is the third largest city in Madagascar and the capital of the Vakinankaratra region, with a population of 265,018 in 2014.
In Madagascar, Antsirabe is known for its relatively cool climate, its industry and the high concentration of pulled rickshaws or pousse-pousse. It attracts around 30,000 tourists a year.
Pousse-pousses in central Antsirabe
Our Lady of La Salette Cathedral
Antsirabe – Grande Avenue with station building
Hôtel des Thermes
Pulled rickshaw
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A pulled rickshaw is a mode of human-powered transport by which a runner draws a two-wheeled cart which seats one or two people.
Japanese rickshaws c. 1897
Tourists dressed as maiko on a rickshaw in Kyoto, Japan
Pousse-pousse in Madagascar
Confucius (transported in a wheeled cart) and children, as imagined by a 17th-century Chinese artist; presumably, the design is similar to the vehicles used at the time. (Illustration from a children's book, Xiao er lun, printed in 1680)