Relais des Plateaux, Antananarivo
April 12, 2018 in Madagascar ⋅ ☀️ 24 °CJust arrived at Ivato airport after 24hrs of travel. Quite an experience getting through passport control. Settled in to our overnight stop.
Just arrived at Ivato airport after 24hrs of travel. Quite an experience getting through passport control. Settled in to our overnight stop.
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.
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.
No spiders! We saw several Goodman's mouse lemurs, varicose chameleons and frogs.
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 bambooRead more
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 manyRead more
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.
Another walk along the roadside to see various chameleons, a frog and a brown mouse lemur.
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 wereRead more
A very small reserve entirely owned and run by the local community to protect the ring-tailed lemurs.
Traveler I could have guessed that with a mirror 😀😀😂🤣