Ranomafana, Madagascar Travel Blogs

Ranomafana
Apr 29, 2008 (5 photos)

... was a great a great way to spend a birthday. We arrived home pleasantly knackered. One meal and a couple of Three Horses Beer, Madagascar's' own special brew, later we then went off to bed, very happy. The next morning we went for a 3 hour trek and got ...

Ranomafana National Park
Aug 8, 2005 (10 photos)

... ! the biggest problem being that the tourists are mainly French. Infact, the French presence was the only complaint I have about Madagascar!! (sorry for any French people reading this but u have to admit you're not the most friendly of travellers!!) We ...

Ranomafana Village
Apr 17, 2007 (20 photos)

G goes fishing!

Narrow Shave with the Wood Chipper
Mar 22, 2005 (10 photos)

... mental shield. On Saturday, just as I was considering sticking my head in the nearest wood chipper, I made it to Ranomafana, population 1500. Just what I needed. Ranomafana is a beautiful little village surrounded by rainforest, just a few miles from ...

Taxi-brousse to Ranomafana
Sep 12, 2005 (3 photos)

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Lemur spotting in Ranomafana National Park
Nov 19, 2007 (2 photos)

... to the capital Tana on Sat or Sun. Dom Note to curious people - there are not that many Internet connections around in Madagascar. A lot of them are not working. The ones that are working are painfully slow... we'll add pictures when we find a ...

Ranomafana National Park
Apr 16, 2007 (34 photos)

Rainforests!

Getting to Isle St. Marie
Sep 24, 2004 (11 photos)

Today I travelled to Ilse St. Marie, a little island off the east coast of Madagascar. For the trip, I used a "taxi-brousse", the local minibus system. The taxi was way overloaded both with people and cargo, and the driver went really fast on the little ...

Bambolinas
Sep 13, 2005 (21 photos)

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The Jungles of Ranomafana
Aug 27, 2006 (10 photos)

... stop: Ranomafana which means Rano=eau Mafana=chaude or hot water! Again the scenic drive down to Ranomafana was very nice. I didn't think that Madagascar was this mountainous / hilly. This is due to the the tectonic forces that started to compress ...

Le Parc National de Ranomafana
Sep 11, 2007 (6 photos)

Nous séjournons au Setam Lodge à Ranomafana, en amont du village.  Confort, belle vue, accueil chaleureux, bons petits plats et bonne situation pour la visite du Parc le lendemain matin. Et justement, nous y voilà, nous nous levons tôt et rejoignons ...

Day 5 Ranomafana National Park
May 30, 2007 (10 photos)

... to walk back again, but walk back again we did! After lunch, we took a ride into the village to take the waters. Ranomafana actually means 'hot water' and it was the natural hot spring that attracted visitors to the area before the park was opened in 1991 ...

Day 4 - Ranomafana National Park
May 29, 2007 (6 photos)

... carvings. The furniture in the restaurant where we had lunch was elaborately decorated. The guide book states that the road to Ranomafana can only be reached by 4-wheeled drive vehicles so we were braced for a bumpy ride. Fortunately in the last year ...

Vierter Tag
Sep 13, 2008 (33 photos)

Fahrt nach Osten. Am Canal des Pangalanes bestiegen zwir das Boot, welches uns nach Ankanin ny Nofy brachte. Ûbernachtung in der Palmarium Lodge. Die Lemuren leben hir ums Hotel herum.

Ranomafana NP
Apr 29, 2005

We saw 6 different kinds of Lemur in one day! It was great, we also saw some mini cameleon and a bark geeko. I really enjoy my day there. There is cheap accomodation in the town but go for dinner early as everything tend to close quite early.

Parc Nacional de Ranomafana
Dec 10, 2008 (14 photos)

The first individual travellers i met in Madagascar. A bunch of funny people ;-) National Park was great, too. Many different kinds of Lemurs, free leeches for everyone and a nice itinary (6h) through the rainforests of National Park Ranomafana which ...

Looking for Lemurs
Dec 31, 2008 (2 photos)

The Setam Lodge is pretty nice.  It is surrounded by the rainforest and just down the street from the Ranomafana National Park entrance.  It is composed of cabins on several levels of a terraced hillside which meant that we were constantly ...

Preparing for a jungle Xmas
Dec 23, 2008

Hi all,  So my time with Blue Ventures has come to an end. It has been a long fun six weeks full of lots of highs and, of course, the occasional low.   I am now officially a divemaster, have mastered my coral identification and can tell my ...