Tuesday, 1 January 2013

Photos of my Amazing Madagascar Adventures: Landscapes, Plants and People

 The is the first lot of photos, with two more posts of photos below and the text in the post above...

The tour kicked off in the rainforest in the east of the country

The Traveller's Palms are really quite interesting with their 2D leaf arrangement


We then headed into the rockier, drier areas to the south and west

Had a fabulous hike through stunning landscapes in the Grand Canyon area






And the natural swimming pool at the top was very welcome!

Our hotel was carefully built to minimise its visual impact
And was set amongst amazing sandstone formations
I got excited about the lurid green lichens!
And the weird plants - this is a small Pachypodium
A bigger one in the hotel gardens
And a very big Pachypodium in the spiny desert reserve
Where we also saw baobab trees, hundreds of years old, and oyster plants, below...

Trouble was, the bus got stuck in sand on the way to the reserve and we had to push!
At least Frederic's 51 year old Peugeot was more reliable!
This one was proving a small boot is no barrier to a large load!
While in some places, pousse-pousse or rickshaws were the preferred means of transport

The locals were always keen to sell us souvenirs



And the kids were keen to be photographed!
Not everything is rosy though, with erosion a big problem
Team Geeks in Action! Lindsay (rugby rep from Oz), Robert the birder, me, Paul from Oz and Allan the dragon-fly man
You gotta love a good road sign!


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