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I started in Antananarivo, the capital, located bang in the centre of the country. The initial going was pretty cruisy, clocking up an easy km each day. Rice paddies littered the roadside and granite-topped hills provided a striking backdrop. A village would pop up every half an hour or so for refuelling. Fried dough with banana, cassava, pineapples, mangos and papayas were all regularly available. At cents an item from the street stalls there's no excuse for going hungry. Further south supplies were less abundant. The villages became more widely spaced - I was lucky to pass more than four a day and only two of those would have any food of note beyond Coke, Fanta, butter biscuits and dried noodles. I was keen to check out the lemurs amidst the rain forest, so after four days I left the safety and seal of the main drag fora side trip down to Parc Ranomafana. The clay surface became increasingly rutted but was still dry and therefore rideable. Clay roads are actually the norm around Madagascar - making travel in the rainy season unthinkable. After a pleasant sojourn hanging with the monkeys, I continued to Manakara on the east coast - logging an impressive hilly kilometres in a single day. Manakara was worth the effort with its palm trees and golden sand. Although I avoided a dip in the treacheroussea. Rather than 'back-pedalling' to the RN7, I hitched a ride on the train from Manakara to Fianarantsoa on the hauts plateaux - just down the road from where I turned off for Ranomafana. The sign said first class, the seats said otherwise. As we started rolling the train's entire populaceappeared to filter forward into first class until the seats were full of bodies and the floor packed with baggage. It was a claustrophobic ten hours. My bicycle emerged from the goods wagon only a little worse for wear. It had been innovatively hung from a metal edge by the seat and bar end - easily fixed with duct tape. Anyhow, roughed up a little it blended in better with the local's bikes. A typical day consisted of getting up just before 5am when it's still quite dark. Then just after five someone switches the light on, that's the tropics for you. The mornings are cool and the light phenomenal for taking photos. My best moments were cruising downhill at five thirty with not a person in sight. Breakfast comprised a baguette with jam and coffee on non-cycling days when I could hang around till the shops opened, otherwise it was yoghurt and butter biscuits. I aimed to cycle for 6 to 8 hours, so by lunchtime- the hottest part of the day - I could focus on the less strenuous activity of finding lodgings for the night. All accommodation in Madagascar is defined as a 'hotel'. A short siesta and then I'd venture out to snap more photos before dinner. The majority of Madagascar's tourists are French. Combine that with its French colonial past and you have a recipe for great culinary experiences. Seafood options abound with all manner of fish, squid, lobster and shrimp. Exotic fruit and plenty of vegetables all make for healthy eating. The remaining six days cycling to Toliara was through the most spectacular scenery imaginable. Parc Andringitra has huge granite cliffs, some up to m high - of which I saw a mad French man base jump. Further west, the landscape eased into wide plains with red roads and hills dotting the horizon in the same bold red. Canyons are etched into red sandstone and bright green foliage hems the clear water. The sifaka large lemurs and chameleons quickly jolted me out of that daydream. Travelling on from Isalo you could still easily be misled into believing you're on the set of a spaghetti western. The locals call this area the 'Wild West'. Its wildness derived from the discovery of sapphires and the consequent influx of miners and opportunists. Houses were rapidly built from board and corrugated iron, so different from the mud-brick dwellings of the hauts plateaux or the wood and thatch construction method used on the coast. Towns are infested with gem stores, complete with steel grilles and thuggish looking males lounging outside. Casinos are also popular so the newly rich can become rapidly poor. I arrived at Toliara after a hot, final km ride, happy to see the coast and a town witha supermarket only the second since leaving Tana. For my final few days in Madagascar I indulged in the dubious luxury of a taxi-brousse ride 20km up the coast to Ifaty, with a coral reef and associated snorkelling opportunities. I concluded that the rudimentary nature of Madagascan cars and their propensity to regularly breakdown, leaves cycling as the premium means of travel in the country. Cycle touring around Madagascar? You'd be mad not to. 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By janzin December 29, in Madagascar. This report has been difficult to start due to a few reasons. First of all, the very recent and comprehensive report by Atdahl covered more areas than we visited, and saw many things we didn't. Also, our trip was very different than most reported on here, because we went with an organized group birding tour. So much of it might not apply to the usual independent traveler here. TonyQ 7 posts. Galago 5 posts. December 29, We booked an additional pre-trip night in Tana so as to be sure not to miss anything on the first day. Turned out, everyone else did as well some of our party arrived two days before. We traveled De. Our first official outing was to be to a lake within the city of Antananarivo Tana , called Parc Tsarasaotra, or sometimes just Lac Alarobia, which is the name of the lake inside this small park. A word about the group and the guide. We actually didn't have any issues with the 8 folks in the group. All were nice people, personable, no one obnoxious, no one caused trouble All were Americans with varying levels of birding ability And unfortunately, our guide really catered to those three twitchers while often--literally--leaving the rest of us behind in the dust. Or in the mud, as it were. The guide was very 'type A' and intent on finding the endemics, get the bird, run run run to the next. The trip was advertised as being 'moderately paced' but we found it nothing of the sort. We physically couldn't keep up with the pace, and once when I said to the guide, why are you running, he said 'I'm not running, this is a moderate pace' which wasn't helpful. Because of this we really felt like we missed a lot, especially the reptiles and plants. The important thing to note is that originally we had two nights in Tulear, and three internal flights. But, as we learned on arrival, the direct flight from Tulear to Fort Dauphin was no more. Now we had to lose a night in Tulear, return to Tana, spend another night in Tana, before heading to Fort Dauphin. Three flights became four. Here's a map of our route. Thankfully, all of these changes were handled expertly and we didn't have to think about any of it. This also extended to all our later delays and check-ins at the airports, hotels, etc. We never had to even talk to an agent at the airport, except security. So this was definitely a plus and Rockjumper handled everything without fuss. It turned out these two gentlemen, John and Jerry, were two of the very serious twitchers, but they were the folks we got along best with on the trip. One of them worked in forestry, and was very into plants which was very good for my spouse, as he's also very into plants, especially orchids. We arrived tired, but without incident, around midnight or so and checked into the very pleasant Relais de Plateaux Hotel. Our first outing with the group was to be post lunch on our first day, so we had a leisurely morning to rest. There were lots of birds around the grounds so we entertained ourselves with some photography. Since we were back at this same hotel four times! I am going to aggregate all the birds I photographed there into this one post. African Stonechats were nesting on the premises. Other birds seen around the hotel were Madagascar Wagtails but I have better photos from elsewhere , Madagascar Bee-eater too distant for photos and every night we heard Madagascar Nightjar, but never did see it ourselves there others did. We had a delicious lunch sitting by the pool. I had a tuna burger and here I felt safe enough to eat salad, but no where else. And they had fantastic fries. We found a lot of French influence in the food And almost every place we went had chocolate mousse for dessert! The restaurant had this amazing chocolate tasting platter for dessert and on many of the nights they ran out of it because just about every one in our group ordered it--multiple times! BTW, although we were very careful not to eat raw veggies or salad other than here , we ate plenty of peelable fruit and juices, with no ill effects. Great paypaya, mango, melon, etc. Neither my spouse nor I got ill at all on the trip. A few of our group did get some stomach upsets but we were fortunate, I guess. It may have helped that we were taking Doxycycline as our anti-malarial, which, as an antibiotic, may protect against some of the bugs. Interesting about the guide. I've heard this about some of the specialist birding companies based in the UK and avoided them for that reason because, while I'm a keen bird watcher, I'm not a twitcher and rushing from one tick to another just ain't my cuppa tea. And, anyway, a good guide ensures that everyone has a chance to see the bird in question and doesn't go charging off. Really not impressed by that. It must've been so frustrating, especially when you wanted to see all sorts of critters as well as birds. On the upside, aren't the Mad Fodys just fabulous - that blob of brilliant scarlet zooming around! I don't want to imply that he didn't try to get everyone on the bird--he did. Well, most of the time But it was rush, rush, on to the next. Its just that often we were not in a position to even get to the bird more on that later too. And there's no doubt he was an excellent birder He just wasn't the right guide for us. The park is right in the center of the city and you'd think it couldn't possibly have much wildlife--but you'd be very wrong! Since , this park has been declared a Ramsar site a wetland site designated to be of international importance under the Ramsar Convention , and is the only privately owned Ramsar site in the world. Our Rockjumper guide was actually going to meet us at the park, because he was just arriving on a flight from South Africa and coming to us straight from the airport. So we started out with Guy and another local guide. Most of the birding tours visit this park because it is home to several endemic species, and the best place to find some of them, including the very rare Meller's Duck. We did see this duck, in fact several of them, but only with scope views, so no photos. Our guide of course had a spotting scope. It also hold the endangered Madagascar Pond Heron; again, seen well in the scope but no decent photos as they were on the island in the middle of the lake. We actually visited this park twice once unplanned--more on that later! I just love how Whistling Ducks line up in a row. Some were endemic, like this Madagascar or Malagasy Kingfisher I've noticed that some sources seem to use Madagascar, and some Malagasy, for many of the birds. This was a great place for the Kingfisher as you could get fairly close, and they seemed used to people. And, some chameleons! Our only Oustalet's of the trip. These were actually seen the 2nd time we visited. There were many butterflies and dragonflies too, but very difficult to photograph We saw a few of these on the trip, at least this time we didn't have to walk under it, but only past it. All in all a good first afternoon, at this point we hadn't yet experienced any of the issues we had later. Happy that you are starting your TR janzin. I have been second guessing whether we want to attempt a trip there. It is a few down on the list now for sure. Still lots of neat things to see there. Maybe when you finish your report we will reevaluate. We actually loved Madagascar as a destination and would love to go back someday to see the things we missed and do it at a slower pace. Although, with so many other places we want to go, its probably unlikely we'll get back. All perspectives are useful when thinking of future travel options. The Red Fody is magical, how amazing that is was plentiful in the hotel grounds. Lac Alarobia looks to be teeming with birds. We had a total of birds, and 95 were lifers, but most of the non-lifers were ducks, herons, shorebirds. Almost all of the land birds were endemic or near-endemic found on neighboring islands such as Cormoros. Great start! I wish I had known about that lake, although I doubt I would have had time to visit. Glad your started this report janzin , some lovely photos, as always, to start. It's unfortunate about the guide, I imagine you had tons where you would have liked to stay longer to get photos but had to move on? Thanks Zubbie15 , indeed, that was another of our issues. Not only that, but out of the 8 of us 9 including guide 5 had long-lens cameras so there was lots of jockeying for the best position. Hubby and I usually lost out because we were trailing behind, so by the time we got up to the bird we didn't get a good spot for photos. And then there was the one woman who insisted on shooting videos with her cell phone and was always in the way. Photography conflicts were definitely one of the more ' Frustrating ' aspects as noted in my report title! The drive was to take about five hours, and the plan was to arrive at our lodging in time for lunch. Because we would need 4-wheel drive vehicles once we were in the reserves, we drove in a convoy of three SUV-type cars. I don't remember what they all were, but they seemed in good shape and were comfortable enough. I attempted to take some photos out of the vehicle as we drove, with either my phone or my Fuji XT which I was using for scenery; here are some of the landscape outside of Tana. Rice is the main crop of the country, as well as the primary stable food. So rice paddies were ubiquitous. We did make a couple of short stops along the way to look at birds. At this stop, we found the photogenic Bob Marley Cafe or Epi-bar, whatever that is! They were quite high up, so no photos. We were driving parallel to the river and many people were working notice the brick works again and washing. We also made a pit stop at a gas station which had a very extensive shop, similar to our 's or WaWa here in the USA, with a fairly extensive selection of snacks and sundries, so most of us stocked up on cookies and chocolate to supplement the granola bars we'd brought along. Some folks picked up extra toothpaste etc Unfortunately, we discovered that Diet Coke or Coke Zero or similar is simply unavailable in Madagascar, at least we never found it anywhere, even in the Relais de Plateaux. The less said about the 'bathrooms,' the better. We arrived at our lodging, Feon'ny Ala, in time for lunch. Since I have no photo, here's a link to their site, only in French. The 2nd row wouldn't have as good a view. Rustic but comfortable chalets which overlooked the forest. Lemurs and chameleons on the grounds. Full time electricity and amazingly tons of hot water--in fact they warn you that it is scalding, which it was! It is Chinese-owned, and the restaurant menu reflected that, with a wide range of dishes many of which had a Chinese-influence lots of noodle dishes, soups, etc; but also plenty of western-style dishes including a very good chicken with vanilla sauce, an excellent grilled pork chop, and a spaghetti Bolognese made with zebu, of course which was quite popular with our group. Since we were there for five dinners we appreciated the wide menu variety. And of course One thing I learned fairly early in the trip was NOT to order zebu steak, as it was invariably tough and overdone. The routine here, as well as with some other lodges, was to select your dinner when you returned from your afternoon activity, then go get your shower, rest, whatever This was a very efficient system as there was no waiting around when hungry and tired and seated at the table. It was nice to be able to select whatever we wanted and as many courses as we wanted. Here are a couple of photos which were taken from the balcony of our room not actually on our arrival day. One afternoon, when we had retreated for awhile to our room due to rain, several Blue Vangas appeared in the tree across from our balcony. This was actually the best view we had of them, even though it was raining at the time. One of our group, who wasn't feeling well one day, stayed back at her room and told us that she had a whole troop of Indri come by! So there is lots of wildlife right around the resort. Anyway, after settling in and getting lunch of which I have no memory we headed out for our first trip into the park. A word about the nomenclature of the park. To make matters more confusing, the old name for Analamazaotra is Perinet, which is still also used. I will use that one for this section as its easier to spell. Photography is, as expected, outstanding! The total of birds decent, as compared to some other birding locations, however with the high percentage of endemics, this trip must have increased your lifers count. Birders are tough folks, specially those with only eyes and ears and binoculars and scopes. A small group of like-minded persons is the only group I will ever be part of. Luckily there are many such persons on Safaritalk. As expected your photos are stunning. What an amazing bird the Blue Vanga is, really beautiful. Your itinerary is similar not identical to the one we did around 20 years ago so I will follow with great interest. Beautiful photos Janet, the Vanga is stunning! Sorry to hear you wear not entirely happy with the travel mode you chose for this one, hopefully the next ones will be more to your liking. Thanks Michael, not at all worried about the next few. Our hotel was only about 10 minutes up the road from the entrance to Analamazoatra Reserve, aka Perinet so this was to be our first venture into the forest. No idea why they put a Ring-tailed Lemur on the sign, because they are not found here. We entered through a building which housed some exhibits, but there was no time for stopping The trails here were for the most part well-maintained, some with paving stones, a few steeper but usually with steps. It had rained extensively in prior days so trails were a bit slippery and some muddy but not too bad. We were very fortunate that the rain had stopped at least for now! In addition to David and Guy, here of course we had to have a local park guide. It seemed that in all the parks, Guy knew everyone and hand-picked the guides that he'd worked with before. Of course, as everywhere, David had his 'target birds. Of course the guides knew more or less the exact area he'd be. Although not necessarily the exact tree, they looked around a bit before finding him. He didn't really want to open his eyes. It's photos like this where the Nikon VR really shines There were other birds of course, but here I began to realize just how difficult photography would be on this trip. Narrow trails, dark rainforest, and five other photographers made photography frustrating. We came across this cocoon which the guide told us was the cocoon of the Comet Moth We came upon some Diademed Sifaka, not in a great position for photos. As it turned out, while we did see some again, this was the only photo opportunity I'd have, so I'm including these not-so-stellar shots here. Of course, this park is the major reserve for the Indri--the largest and certainly the most vocal of the lemurs. There are several troops that call this reserve home. On this occasion, we heard them in the distance, but did not see them. However, it was certainly not to be our only opportunity, so we weren't worried. Finally, to end the day here's a House Gecko, taken outside our room, they were common everywhere. BTW, I know that Atdahl has found some of the parks crowded, but we didn't have that experience here at all. We were practically the only ones on the trail, every so often we'd meet up with a couple of folks and their guide, but certainly not a lot of people. Since we'd had a long day starting out in Tana, there was no night walk tonight, but there would be a few to come. Tomorrow, a very early start to head out to the Mantadia section of the park. Awesome janzin , I am glad you started a report. It will be very interesting to compare experiences. Already, you have had much better food and restaurant service than we did. And, of course, your photos are amazing. The only other crowded park for us was the main section of Ranomafana. Superb images as always. Sorry the trip did not meet expectations but hey, based on the pictures so far and your descriptions, it appears you did fine despite the logistical issues. As is often said in Africa sometimes you just have to take a deep breath and go with the flow. What is not cool and bordering on unacceptable is the guide moving too quickly and not catering to the reasonable requirements of ALL paying members of the group. Often people in group settings have issues with other group members having divergent interests. But for a professional guide not to properly look after every member by catering to just a few is bad. Moving too fast for all group members to keep up with is BS. Thanks for doing this report. Yep, that's how we felt. And believe me we wrote Rockjumper and made our feelings known, on our return. The next morning we had a very early breakfast, I think around 5 a. We then headed out for an all-day trip to the Mantadia section of the park, taking a packed lunch. The road is paved for a bit but once you get to the area of Vakona lodge which we passed Lots of mud. And lots of ruts. Eventually we got to a place in the road where we stopped to start our hike into the forest. Our goal this morning was several of the ground-roller species, and this was a group I most wanted to see, especially Pitta-like Ground-roller. The trails of course were muddy, narrow, and thick with roots. Steep in some places. Fairly treacherous but of course David was on a fast pace, with the three 'twitchers' close behind. Luckily Guy stuck with the rear to help the stragglers. We also had a couple of local guides with us. These photos are not all from this day but from the same area. Typical muddy trail not the steepest parts This group formed a very long chain I'm not sure of the rationale We saw some birds, but photography was really difficult in the forest. Here are just a couple I managed, not great but I'm including them because they are both endemic and interesting birds. In addition to these we had good looks at Madagascar Cuckoo-shrike, Blue Coua, and several others for which I only have record photos. Suddenly, David heard the call of the Pitta-like Ground Roller. And we're off! The already fast pace became almost a run. We struggled to keep up without slipping in the mud or tripping over roots We shortly reached a river, and David and the 'twitchers' were already there. The river was running fast, not too deep but definitely fast due to the recent rains. And it was muddy Not only that, the embankment in this spot was fairly steep. There was no bridge nor obvious crossing and we could see that the local guides were quickly throwing narrow logs across, pieces of wood, whatever they could find and we were expected to cross this slippery path! David was already hopping across when I put my foot down and said to Guy, I am NOT going across that with my camera I could just see slipping on only the third full day of the trip and dunking my gear in the river. Also realizing that we'd have to return across this river to get back! Alan was torn, but he said he'd try and he handed me his camera to hold. The other not-to-serious birding couple were behind us and they hesitated too, but decided to try. Well Alan immediately slipped in the mud going down the embankment and that was enough for him. He came back up and said he wasn't going either. The other two, in the end, went down and I guess managed to get across. Meantime while all this was going on David was already on the other side and we called across to say 'we're not coming' and basically, instead of coming back to maybe try to help us across, he just said 'If you don't come you'll miss the bird' and then I said, 'well then we'll miss it. I was pretty disappointed to miss one of the best birds of the trip, but I wasn't going to risk my neck and my camera. In hindsight if it had all happened at a slower pace, if David and the local guides had waited instead of proceeding at a frenzy, we might have tried to get across. To add insult to injury, on the other side of the river the group found not only the Pitta-like Ground Roller, but two other targets as well--the Scaly-breasted Ground Roller and the Short-legged Ground Roller. And, the Pygmy Kingfisher! All birds I really wanted to see. Guy led us back to the road and we birded quite a long distance with him, we heard more calls of the Pitta-like Ground-Roller, but couldn't locate it. In fact we saw just about nothing along the road. The others came back after almost an hour and needless to say we were pretty bummed, especially when we heard about all that they saw. Granted, in the end it was our choice not to go and now I sort of kick myself about it but we probably made the right decision. Jerry one of the friendly twitcher guys told me that it was a lot of steep bush-wacking on the other side, and he actually fell himself, as did others. Although they crossed back over the river at a slightly easier spot. Sigh, well we still had the rest of the day--it wasn't even lunchtime yet--and David said there would be more chances to find the Ground-rollers again. To cut the suspense, no, they weren't seen again, at least not by us. But this is where we started to think that, hmmm, maybe coming with a birding group was a mistake. We drove a bit further up the road to a different trail-head, which David said should be easier. That blue vanga is stunning, it's a bird I didn't see well on my trip. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy! Already have an account? Sign in here. Safaritalk uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. By using Safaritalk you agree to our use of cookies. If you wish to refuse the setting of cookies you can change settings on your browser to clear and block cookies. However, by doing so, Safaritalk may not work properly and you may not be able to access all areas. If you are happy to accept cookies and haven't adjusted browser settings to refuse cookies, Safaritalk will issue cookies when you log on to our site. Share More sharing options Followers 5. Recommended Posts. Posted December 29, However, I do have some different perspectives and hopefully some useful information, and lots of folks kindly asked me to post my report, so I will proceed. For most locations, I won't do a day-by-day recounting but will just summarize the highlights and lowlights , although a few special days I may recount more in full. We've been wanting to visit Madagascar for quite awhile, but I always felt it was too complicated to go independently, or at least more complicated than I wanted to deal with. I of course had heard about all the logistical issues with transport and I really didn't want to have to deal with them on our own. Also to be honest I was a bit nervous about traveling there and wanted a very experienced guide and back-end company who could handle potential problems. We chose to go with Rockjumper Birding, based in South Africa, because we had had a great trip with them to Cuba another place we didn't want to do independently and because of all the birding tour groups, they had the most experience in Madagascar, leading trips there per year, rather than the one or two of most companies. The guide we had, David H, was one of their most senior and had done Madagascar at least 10 or 11 times, so we felt we were in good hands. Also, they maxed the trip at 8 participants And the price was very reasonable! I'll cut right to the chase before continuing with the actual report. Similarly to Atdahl , we returned with some sense of disappointment and frustration Our main issues involved being with a group tour. Although there were definitely some benefits, we returned vowing up and down that we will never, ever join a group tour again Not to say we didn't have some great experiences Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Replies Created 4 yr Last Reply 4 yr. Top Posters In This Topic 49 10 7 5. Popular Posts janzin December 29, Posted Images. Of course, they would stop for lemurs and we did stop when there was an obvious chameleon, etc, but they didn't do much active searching for them. One of our major disappointments was never seeing a leaf-tailed gecko Our group just didn't spend much time actively searching them out except on night walks We were always accompanied by a local guide, Guy, who was excellent and probably saved our lives not kidding! He always kept an eye on us, helping us on the trails, etc. We can't speak highly enough of him. In most places we were accompanied by park guides as well, and they were often the ones who stopped for the chameleons etc. I'll get into that later. The delays started before we even started out, as on our arrival, we were informed that our original itinerary had to be changed due to there no longer being a direct flight between two of our destinations. Here was our original itinerary--followed by the itinerary we ended up with. More or less The important thing to note is that originally we had two nights in Tulear, and three internal flights. Posted December 29, edited. Some birds around the Relais des Plateaux: African Stonechats were nesting on the premises. Female African Stonechat Endemic Madagascar Bulbul Couldn't get enough of the Red Fodys Female Red Fody Other birds seen around the hotel were Madagascar Wagtails but I have better photos from elsewhere , Madagascar Bee-eater too distant for photos and every night we heard Madagascar Nightjar, but never did see it ourselves there others did. The hotel itself was very comfortable and we found the food excellent. Edited December 29, by janzin. TonyQ Posted December 29, I am delighted you are doing the trip report! Some fantastic bird photos to start us off. Galago Posted December 29, Traffic in Tana was as we'd heard We parked outside the park and entered this surprising oasis. Look at all those birds!! Some birds were familiar! I just love how Whistling Ducks line up in a row Some were endemic, like this Madagascar or Malagasy Kingfisher I've noticed that some sources seem to use Madagascar, and some Malagasy, for many of the birds. Got a fish! Not quite endemic, as it is found also on neighboring islands, but a regional endemic. I believe this is the Royal Blue Pansy. We saw a few of these on the trip, at least this time we didn't have to walk under it, but only past it All in all a good first afternoon, at this point we hadn't yet experienced any of the issues we had later. Treepol Posted December 30, Posted December 30, Zubbie15 Posted December 30, Posted December 30, edited. Brick-making is a big industry in the surrounding fields, along of course with rice. A typical 'village' on the outskirts of Tana. The less said about the 'bathrooms,' the better We arrived at our lodging, Feon'ny Ala, in time for lunch. This Brown Lemur and her baby were scavenging the trees right below our room for fruit. I will use that one for this section as its easier to spell Edited December 30, by janzin. Edited December 30, by xelas. TonyQ Posted December 30, No idea why they put a Ring-tailed Lemur on the sign, because they are not found here I also have no idea which trails we took Within minutes of entering we saw our first lemur, an Eastern Grey Bamboo Lemur. Next up, the guide guided us straight to an endemic Collared Nightjar, nesting on the ground. I'm sure we'd never have seen either of these birds on our own. As we exited the park, around the parking area we spotted this endemic Crested Drongo. Edited December 30, by janzin. Atdahl Posted December 30, Looking forward to reading more. AKR1 Posted December 30, Janet Superb images as always. Posted December 31, edited. We did stop for some interesting fauna. Our first Giraffe-necked Weevil! This is the female, which doesn't have such a long neck. Here's the name-saked long-necked male. There were also some really cool caterpillers. Love the dewdrops on this one. The chain was really long! But this is where we started to think that, hmmm, maybe coming with a birding group was a mistake We drove a bit further up the road to a different trail-head, which David said should be easier. Edited December 31, by janzin. Posted December 31, Create an account or sign in to comment You need to be a member in order to leave a comment Create an account Sign up for a new account in our community. Register a new account. Sign in Already have an account? Sign In Now. Go to topic listing. Sign In Sign Up. Important Information Safaritalk uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. I accept.

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