April 2008
Our
honeymoon to Madagascar… (continued)
The road to Toliari
Our
first baobab…
Ifaty (the beach)
More baobabs…
The North – Montagne d’Ambre
Wild orchard…
The world’s smallest
chameleon. This little fella
is fully grown!
The leaf tail gecko…
STOP…
See if you can find the leaf tail gecko
in this photo.
Our guide was pointing directly at it,
and we still couldn’t see it!
Scroll down to see where it is…
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The outskirts of Diego-Suarez
Homemade salad
dressings.
Our guide for a few
days, John.
Tuesday is market day…
This was our little hut for the night…
Ring-tailed mongoose…
Bat cave… Holy cow!
We went deep inside this very dark cave
to see hundreds of bats hanging from the ceiling.
To get there, we had to walk through
narrow gaps with spiders bigger than your hand.
Very unnerving!
This photo was taken inside the cave,
just using torchlight with a long exposure.
Tsingy (limestone) formations
A
Ankify
We were the only guests at the Baobab
Hotel. That’s our bungalow in the
background.
The transfer to Nosy
Be. Picked up from right outside our bungalow…
Nosy Be
On the pedalo off our guest house beach.
Coconut snack…
We stalked this chameleon for ages and
finally saw him catch an insect
with his elastic tongue…
The ferry…
Back in Tana
Had to take one of the numerous 2CV
taxis. They’re everywhere.
In the words of our tour agent, “Tana is
a
During our journey, the driver turned
off the car to coast downhill
to conserve fuel…!
I don’t think they are appealing to the
Australian market…
