Quick "Preserve" Stop

Eco tourism takes many forms.

Along the road to Andasibe today we stopped at a small "preserve" where they have a great collection of reptiles.

I suspect they sometimes have more butterflies as well, but that part of the collection/tour was light.

I got to see a dozen+ absolutely fantastic geckos and chameleons up close. My favorite was the Panther Chameleon. I held some boas- not actually my favorite thing to do as I don't generally trust snakes- but they're wondefully iridescent in a way that only snakes can be. I'm told Mada has no poisonous snakes! Love it.

Tiny orange frogs, brilliant green/gold frogs and a fascinating tomato frog (that I think might be a toad) were hits as well.

There was one bored looking crocodile, but then crocs almost always look bored.

I ate a lunch not worthy of comment and we hit the road again.Read more