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Madagascar 2007 photo page

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This page is dedicated to the remarkable Malagasy people with sincere thanks for their sometimes inadvertent, but more frequently, willing help in documenting our diverse experiences in Madagascar.

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+ people
+ Tana
+ Antsirabe
+ Ambalavao
+ Isalo
+ Ifaty
+ Berenty
+ in the market
+ the river
+ pousse-pousse
+ life in Mada
+ after life in Mada
+ zebu
+ food
+ lemurs
+ other mammals
+ birds
+ radiated tortoise
+ chameleons
+ geckoes
+ crocodillians
+ frogs
+ bugs
+ flora
+ baobabs
+ along the road
+ sisal
+ Ifaty

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+ Madagascar connections
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Flag

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People

Woman with scarf

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Dry sense of humor in Tana

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Basket o' yams

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Up to something?

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Five girls

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Pointed commentary

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Girl

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Nike presents Madagascar

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Smiling girl

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Two women, one hat

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Woman with bowl hat

tana

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Betsileo girl

betsileo girl

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Girl with bro

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Two boys

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Antananarivo

Tana from on high

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Getting cobble stoned in Tana

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A grate picture

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Three in Tana

family

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

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HIV education

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Malaria protection

bed net

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In the market

And never the twine shall meet

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Carrots

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Veggies

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Lambas

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Voanjo

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Peanuts

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Baskets

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Purple baskets

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A vary interesting view

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

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Basket o' chickens

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Vegetables

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The bubble vendor

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A Game with “a peal”

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The river

On the riverbank

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Punting, Madagascar style

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In the river

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Bird's eye view

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Rice

Planting rice

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Paddies

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More paddies

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Woman and paddy

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Food

Gastronomical grenouilles

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Lunch

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Taking waffles to heart

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Zebu

Zebu on the move

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Zebu traffic

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Zebu salesman

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Zebu market
Ambalavao
August 8, 2007

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Life in Mada

Highlands Housing - Merino style

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Note west facing, lack of windows

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Break-dancing maneuver

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Making bricks

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Tsarasaotra

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After life in Mada

Long-term planning

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After life-story

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Tomb

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Zebu and the second amendment

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Tomb garden

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Crosses and a gun

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Pousse-pousse

The doubly inappropriately named “pousse-pousse”

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Ansirabe
August 6, 2007

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Ansirabe
August 6, 2007

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Vazaha

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Ansirabe
August 6, 2007

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Ambalavao

Ambalavao paper

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Ambalavao
August 8, 2007

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Paper making

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Ambalavao
August 8, 2007

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Hery making paper

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Ambalavao
August 8, 2007

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Lemurs!

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Common brown lemur (Eulemur fulvus)

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Bamboo lemurs

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Lemur profiling

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Bamboo lemur

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Maki

Maki portrait

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Ring-tailed Lemur, (Lemur catta) Maki

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The lemur and Mr. Darwin

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Ring-tailed Lemur, (Lemur catta) Maki

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The zen of evolution

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Ring-tailed Lemur, (Lemur catta) Maki

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Sifakas

Close-up

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Sifaka snacking

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The real Sifakas

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Leapin' lemur baby

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Sifaka portrait

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Bob

and his distorted sense of lemur

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Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli)

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Dancing sifaka

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Lemur pirouette

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Ninja lemur

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Brown lemur - Berenty

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Sportif lemur - nocturnal - in a thorny situation

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Mouse lemur

Mouse lemur - nocturnal

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Spiny forest

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Other mammals

Madagascar civet

something of interest

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Ranomafana
August 7, 2007

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”Is that Bob?”

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Ranomafana
August 7, 2007

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”Yes, I believe it is.”

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Ranomafana
August 7, 2007

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Incisive image

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Ranomafana
August 7, 2007

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Mating pair

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Ranomafana
August 7, 2007

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Fossa

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Tana zoo
August 18, 2007

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Fossa

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Tana zoo
August 18, 2007

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Tenrec

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Up to bat

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Birds

Madagascar Red Owl

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

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Pied crow

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Pied Crow (Corvus albus)

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Coua

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

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Elephant bird egg

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Egg of extinct ratite
possibly Aepyornis maximus
August 15, 2007

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Chicken with a hang-over

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Gallus gallus

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Radiated tortoise

Endangered

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Astrochelys radiata

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Radiated tortoise arm

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When turtles confer

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chameleons

Camel Lion

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Orange you glad I said chameleon?

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Eye of the chameleon

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Going grey

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Eye for fashion

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Finger ornament

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Geckoes

Big-headed gecko

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Paroedura

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Leaf tailed gecko

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Uroplatus sikorae

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Leaf-tailed gecko - uroplatus

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Leaf-tailed gecko - Uroplatus

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Leaf-tailed gecko eye

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Gecko handed

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Snakes

Boa

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

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Crocodillians

The tale of the lizard and the croc

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

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Frogs

White tree frog

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Red frog

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August 18, 2007

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Bugs

7 legged spider

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One in the hand

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Crazy nymph

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Flatid leaf-bug, nymphal form

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Girafe necked-weevil

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Scorpion

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Butterfly on bougainvillea

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Large butterfly

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Flora

Sundew, some don't

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Pachypodia

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pachypodia flower

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You don't know jack, fruit

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Baobab

Majestic

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Fat bab

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Another bab

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Where the baobabs grow

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Sisaling up the baobab

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Isalo, NP

Isalo landscape, high valley

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Ship rock
Rhino head?

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

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Turkey head

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The Window of Isalo

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Flying out over the Window of Isalo

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Sunset through the Window of Isalo

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Oasis in Isalo

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Home sweet cabin

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Along the road

Sapphires

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Anja

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Glacially carved rocks

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Carrying water

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Zebu mobile

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Berenty

Ostrich feathers

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Primate and corvid confer

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We flew Air Mad to Fort Dauphin

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

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Coming from the market

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This may entail walking extremely long distances.

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Pipe dreams

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Sisal

Sisal - pre sisal-ly

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The sisal factory

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The sisal truck arrives

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Unloading the sisal

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Sisal factory workers

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Ifaty

Diving in the Straits of Mozambique

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Mantis

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Purple flower

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”Mad laps at the shoreline

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Sun dhow-n in Ifaty

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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

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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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+ Other images of Africa

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Modified: November 6, 2013
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