Relais des Plateaux, Antananarivo
12 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Just arrived at Ivato airport after 24hrs of travel. Quite an experience getting through passport control. Settled in to our overnight stop.
Mitsinjo Project
13 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Our first outing in Madagascar. We visited a community project and helped their reforestation efforts by planting 6 tiny trees. When they are grown up the lemurs will play in them.
Andasibe NP
14 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Very wet but ultimately rewarding trek to see babakoto (indri), diademed sifaka and brown lemurs. And Parson's chameleon. Unfortunately cameras got very, very wet.
Andasibe Night Walk
14 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
No spiders! We saw several Goodman's mouse lemurs, varicose chameleons and frogs.
Mantadia NP
15 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
A very long (2 hours) drive to cover 16km to see more lemurs in this park. Black and white ruffed lemurs, brown lemurs, babakoto and many diademed sifaka. After we finished the walk we saw a bambooEn savoir plus
To Antsirabe
16 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
A day spent on the road passing traditional Malagasy villages, markets, fruit stalls, piles of bricks, flower stalls, toy lorry stalls,... Also quite a few zebu carts. And family tombs. And so manyEn savoir plus
Ranomafana NP Day 1
18 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
This morning we were lucky not to have any rain. We saw Golden bamboo, Eastern grey, red-fronted brown and red-bellied lemurs. Female red-bellied lemurs have white bellies.
Ranomafana Night Walk
18 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Another walk along the roadside to see various chameleons, a frog and a brown mouse lemur.
Ranomafana NP Day 2
19 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
We were not allowed to visit the part of the park originally planned due to recent problems with bandits in the area! We were lucky to have another dry day (it rains 290 days a year). We wereEn savoir plus
Anja Community Conservation Site
20 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
A very small reserve entirely owned and run by the local community to protect the ring-tailed lemurs.
To Isalo
21 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Travelling further south and the landscape has changed considerably. Much drier and very flat until we reached the sandstone outcrops of Isalo NP. Staying at a beautiful hotel in the middle ofEn savoir plus
Isalo NP Day 1
22 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Lovely hike along a canyon in Isalo NP. We saw Verraux's sifaka (just the one) and many more ring-tailed lemurs. At the end there was a lovely rock pool for a swim.
Isalo NP Day 2
23 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Today we hiked up to the top of the park to view the sandstone rock formations. We also saw ring-tailed lemurs, a jewelled chameleon and a grass snake but have run out of photo slots.
Zombitse Forest
24 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ 🌬 19 °C
First view of baobab trees along with more sifakas and our first sportive lemur. He is resting because he is nocturnal.
Arboretum d'Antsokay
24 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ 🌬 28 °C
A walk amongst fascinating varieties of local trees and vegetation. And of course we photograph the animals.
Ifaty Spiny Forest
25 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
Very early walk amongst the baobabs, pachypodia and octopus trees. Sighted a long-tailed ground roller, a tenrec and a baby white-footed sportive lemur.
Le Paradisier night walk & other animals
25 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Another cute lemur and other animals all found within the grounds of the hotel.
Le Paradisier hotel, Ifaty
26 avril 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
We have had 2 full days of relaxation here at this wonderful hotel. It is very hot here beside the Indian Ocean.


















































































































VoyageurI could have guessed that with a mirror 😀😀😂🤣