Today we venture to Zombitse National Park and witness the results of a widespread environmental problem in Madagascar: deforestation. After a long history of “slashand-burn agriculture” in the region, only a small area of protected forest remains. As a result, it is a particularly abundant with flora biodiversity; baobabs and several orchids are especially common. Time permitting, visit Antsokay Arboretum, created in 1980 by amateur Swiss biologist Hermann Petignat. The 100-acre site is dedicated to conservation of the country’s endemic fauna. Continue to the seaside town of Toliara, situated near the Tropic of Capricorn. Overnight at Le Paradisier.
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Actually, another day from Hell on the bus made much better by the stop at Zombitse Park
The Park
with the
no clue why he is awake
Sportif – normally a nocturnal
the massive baobab trees
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- Baobabs
and then there was the fun of these guys …..
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- one cool lemur
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- the initial cool dude
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- two greeting
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- two
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- two taking a grooming break
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- just hanging and watching us
before driving to the end of the world
We arrived at camp late afternoon –
the main area –
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- our cabin
