Blogs from Madagascar, Africa - page 30

Well, when I was in the middle of my last tour of Kenya/Tanzania, I wrote a very long second entry and then the internet died in the cafe I was in, so I lost it. So...here I am in Madagascar! I just finished my tour and it was amazing. What a truly beautiful country. A few of the highlights.... The screaming Indris in Andasibe waking me up at 5:50 Having three brown lemurs climbing all over me on Lemur Island (and digging their nails into my neck) Learning how to pronounce Antananarivo, Fianarantsoa, Analamanzoatra and Andrianampoinimerina Meeting Dr. Patricia Wright, of Stony Brook University, who discovered the Golden Bamboo Lemur in 1986 and help set up Ranomafana National Park and getting a tour of their fantastic research facility Swimming in Piscine Naturelle at Isalo...paradise Dancing sifakas ... read more

My last entry! cant believe three months is up already. in a way it feels like i have been here forever but then at the same time it seems strange it is home time already! but i am definately ready to come home. Really looking forward to people. If people havent already been told i am going into ormskirk on saturday 27th for a few drinkies. anyone is well to come along. as for sheffield type people am waiting to see when little becky gets back then was gonna arrange a reunion for us all. so be waiting by the phone for my call! as for details about my final week. it was actually a pretty good ending in the forest eventhough i had a stupid experiment to complete, which involved trying to make the lemurs ... read more

Sat 29th Sep - Got up early to say goodbye to the guys I had been travelling with for the past 2 weeks as they are travelling off to other places. This bit is always a bit sad as, although you promise to stay in touch, the practicalities make it difficult. When I get to oz in the future I can catch up again, but that is a long time away. Leaving for Madagascar later today, so time to catch up this morning. The couple who run the Twana lodge, Arnie & Chris are really nice folks and would love to come back some day. Arnie dropped me off at the airport later. Johannesburgh International has now been renamed O.R Tambo just to confuse. I am to board Air Madagascar flight MD125. First in line at ... read more

Hi all, Just had a crash and lost all the text I just wrote!! (And I did prss save several times before!!!) Anyway so in short: we're off to the east now. in Tamatave now were in Andasibe rain forest befor and tommorow at 5am direction ile sainte marie xx love ... read more

Or maybe not..... So first of all in this Blog you'll find: 1) PLENTY of photos 2) A very negative comment as I have to get it off my chest 3) a text that Nadja wrote about most of what we did till now. (I use her text as I have spent a lot of time uploading the pictures. So what's wrong????? We have been very dissapointed by the "friendliness" of the Malagasy. Madagascar is not a country to travel "independently". As long as you travel in group and pay a LOT of money, you get plenty of nice smiles. But we are trying to do it the real way and travel with the locals and local transport. Again and again they try to rip us off. Over charging by 2 or 3 times the normal ... read more