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Tana

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Berenty

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lemurs

other mammals

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radiated tortoise

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bugs

flora

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along the road

sisal

Ifaty

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People

Woman with scarf

Dry sense of humor in Tana

Basket o' yams

Up to something?

Five girls

Pointed commentary

Girl

Nike presents Madagascar

Smiling girl

Two women, one hat

Woman with bowl hat

Betsileo girl

Girl with bro

Two boys

Antananarivo

Tana from on high

Getting cobble stoned in Tana

A grate picture

Three in Tana

Zarek, Wendy, and Bob
Picture taken by our guide Heri

HIV education

Malaria protection

In the market

And never the twine shall meet

Carrots

Veggies

Lambas

Voanjo

Peanuts

Baskets

Purple baskets

A vary interesting view

A tenuous bilingual pun based on the Malagasy word for rice.

Basket o' chickens

Vegetables

The bubble vendor

A Game with “a peal”

The river

On the riverbank

Punting, Madagascar style

In the river

Bird's eye view

Rice

Planting rice

Paddies

More paddies

Woman and paddy

Food

Gastronomical grenouilles

Lunch

Taking waffles to heart

Zebu

Zebu on the move

Zebu traffic

Zebu salesman

Zebu market
Ambalavao
August 8, 2007

Life in Mada

Highlands Housing - Merino style

Note west facing, lack of windows

Break-dancing maneuver

Making bricks

Tsarasaotra

After life in Mada

Long-term planning

After life-story

Tomb

Zebu and the second amendment

Tomb garden

Crosses and a gun

Pousse-pousse

The doubly inappropriately named “pousse-pousse”

Ansirabe
August 6, 2007

Ansirabe
August 6, 2007

Vazaha

Ansirabe
August 6, 2007

Ambalavao

Ambalavao paper

Ambalavao
August 8, 2007

Paper making

Ambalavao
August 8, 2007

Hery making paper

Ambalavao
August 8, 2007

Lemurs!

Common brown lemur (Eulemur fulvus)

Bamboo lemurs

Lemur profiling

Bamboo lemur

Maki

Maki portrait

Ring-tailed Lemur, (Lemur catta) Maki

The lemur and Mr. Darwin

Ring-tailed Lemur, (Lemur catta) Maki

The zen of evolution

Ring-tailed Lemur, (Lemur catta) Maki

Sifakas

Close-up

Sifaka snacking

The real Sifakas

Leapin' lemur baby

Sifaka portrait

Bob

and his distorted sense of lemur

Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli)

Dancing sifaka

Lemur pirouette

Ninja lemur

Brown lemur - Berenty

Sportif lemur - nocturnal - in a thorny situation

Mouse lemur

Mouse lemur - nocturnal

Spiny forest

Other mammals

Madagascar civet

something of interest

Ranomafana
August 7, 2007

”Is that Bob?”

Ranomafana
August 7, 2007

”Yes, I believe it is.”

Ranomafana
August 7, 2007

Ranomafana
August 7, 2007

Ranomafana
August 7, 2007

Tana zoo
August 18, 2007

Tana zoo
August 18, 2007

Birds

Madagascar Red Owl

Madagascar Red Owl (Tyto soumagnei)
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Tytonidae

Pied Crow (Corvus albus)

Coua

Giant Coua
Coua gigas
Berenty
The couas are members of the cuckoo family.

Elephant bird egg

Egg of extinct ratite
possibly Aepyornis maximus
August 15, 2007

Chicken with a hang-over

Gallus gallus

Radiated tortoise

Endangered

Astrochelys radiata

Radiated tortoise arm

When turtles confer

chameleons

Camel Lion

Orange you glad I said chameleon?

Eye of the chameleon

Going grey

Eye for fashion

Finger ornament

Geckoes

Big-headed gecko

Paroedura

Leaf tailed gecko

Uroplatus sikorae

Leaf-tailed gecko - uroplatus

Leaf-tailed gecko - Uroplatus

Leaf-tailed gecko eye

Gecko handed

Snakes

The presence of boas (usually associated with South America) in Madagascar is another of the many geographical enigmas of Madagascar.

Crocodillians

The tale of the lizard and the croc

Once upon a time, a croc had a lizard for dinner.
The end

Frogs

White tree frog

Red frog

August 18, 2007

Bugs

7 legged spider

One in the hand

Crazy nymph

Flatid leaf-bug, nymphal form

Girafe necked-weevil

Scorpion

Butterfly on bougainvillea

Large butterfly

Flora

Sundew, some don't

Pachypodia

pachypodia flower

You don't know jack, fruit

Baobab

Majestic

Fat bab

Another bab

Where the baobabs grow

Sisaling up the baobab

Isalo, NP

Isalo landscape, high valley

Ship rock
Rhino head?

The guides encouraged us to make up our own names for the weirdly shaped rock formations.

Turkey head

The Window of Isalo

Flying out over the Window of Isalo

Sunset through the Window of Isalo

Oasis in Isalo

Home sweet cabin

Along the road

Sapphires

Anja

Glacially carved rocks

Carrying water

Zebu mobile

Berenty

Ostrich feathers

Primate and corvid confer

We flew Air Mad to Fort Dauphin

(We did not realize at the time that our flight out of Fort Dauphin would be cancelled – leading to some serious scrambling to recoup.)

Coming from the market

This may entail walking extremely long distances.

Pipe dreams

Sisal

Sisal - pre sisal-ly

The sisal factory

The sisal truck arrives

Unloading the sisal

Sisal factory workers

Ifaty

Diving in the Straits of Mozambique

Mantis

Purple flower

”Mad laps at the shoreline

Sun dhow-n in Ifaty

Madagascar itinerary - August 3, 2007 - August 18, 2007 - under construction

August 3, 2007

Morning flight to Antananarivo from Johanesburg

Arrive 1:30

Met by driver - Coco

Hotel de France

Explore the city

Birthday dinner for Zarek at O! Poivre Vert in hotel

August 4, 2007 - Tana

Lemur park (RN1 22 kimometers from Tana)

Market in Tana

August 5, 2007 - Tana to Ansirabe

Meet Hery Andrianiantefana, our guide

Drive to high point in Tana

Drive to Antsirabe

Hotel Avana

August 6, 2007 - Ansirabe to Ranamafana

Ride in pousse pousses

Visit local market

Drive to Ranomafana

Night walk

August 7, 2007 - Ranamafana to Fianarantsoa

Morning hike

Mating civets

Tiny chameleons

Tour Centre Calbio

Drive to Fianarantsoa

Hotel Soafia

August 8, 2007 - Fianarantsoa to Isalo

Paper factory in Ambalavao

Zebu market, Ambalavao

Isalo Ranch

August 9, 2007 - Isalo

Hike - Canyon de Makis

Picnic lunch

Sunset at Window of Isalo

Dinner at Isalo Ranch

August 10, 2007 - Isalo

Hike

Piscine Natural

Went swimming with Zarek

August 11, 2007 - Isalo to Ifaty

Antsokay

Beach at Ifaty

August 12, 2007 - Ifaty

August 13, 2007 - Ifaty to Tulear, to Fort Dauphin

August 14, 2007 - Fort Dauphin to Berenty

Four hour drive to Berenty

Lunch at Berenty

Walk with guide Ben Taoby

Evening walk

August 15, 2007 - Berenty

Mouse lemurs

Androy Museum

August 16, 2007 - Berenty to Fort Dauphin

Sisal factory

Dancing sifakas

Got to airport but flight was cancelled

Stay in Fort Dauphin

Photograph white tree frog by hotel room

August 17, 2007 - Fort Dauphin to Tana

Fly to Tana

Meet up with Hery

Stay at Tana Plaza

August 18, 2007 - Tana to London

Chameleon Farm

Tana zoo

Shopping in Tana

Depart Tana for London via Joburg

With special thanks to our many guides - especially Hery Andrianiantefana and Ben Taoby

Madagascar pictures by subject

Madagascar 2007

Madagascar 2007 reptitles and amphibians only

Birds - Madagascar 2007

Frogs - Madagascar 2007

Bugs - Madagascar 2007

Plants - Madagascar 2007

lemurs

sisal

baobabs

Isalo, NP

Ifaty

Berenty

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Modified: November 6, 2013
Created: August 4, 2006