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The Ascent of Man
... Golden Bamboo Lemur and the Greater Bamboo Lemur. The Golden Bamboo Lemur apparently feeds almost exclusively on a giant bamboo species found here that has enough cyanide (naturally occurring) to kill the average human. Talk about feeding specialisation! Another interesting fact about this bamboo is its growth form. Unlike the species we have at home that send their pesky little suckers out every which way, this species produces but a single, perfect, upright stem, that heads ...
A slice of heaven
... themselves on video and there's always so much laughter. With chains oiled and food items stowed (fresh peanuts - yum!), we headed south along the RN7 (the main highway). It felt good to be back on the bike again after so much time in taxi brousses. You may have noticed that we haven't actually done a whole lot of cycling as yet. We've realised that, for us to travel predominantly by cycle would mean we would have very little time in the national parks or in the towns ...
Mantadia National Park
... by local people, apparently involving lots of local rhum, food and the usual chicken sacrifice. People spend the night before the ceremony in a cave formed under the large rock and, impressively swim up shute, against the strong current (I could see this being an extreme sport in New Zealand). After the ceremony (on top of the rock), in which people claim to see the spirits, everyone jumps into the pool below (a hangover cure perhaps??). Our final stop was the ...
Alle festers mor...
... kommer til et nytt sted, og stort sett stemmer denne.
Jeg har stort sett skrevet når jeg har vært på langturer, men alt kan jo rett og slett ikke skrives. Så etter noen pils med kompiser har jeg hatt for vane å fortelle de saftigste historiene, som jeg sikkert har fortalt 100 ganger, men som er minner som har brent seg fast. Før jeg reiste nå, fikk jeg spørsmål om jeg ikke også kunne ha en usensorert blogg. Det som kommer nå er sensurert.
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Pangalanes part 2
... Marie for my second week and whale watching. As we neared Tamatave Claude received a call to say the flight had been cancelled - not enough passengers - and I would be flown back to Antananarivo, stay overnight there, then transferred to Ile Ste Marie tomorrow.
On the outskirts of Tamatave we were met on the canalbank by ...
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