Hotel Le Jardin du Roy Isalo

Found that it gets very hot in the rooms without air conditioning and the only other option is to open the windows and door which of course lets the mosquitoes (and maybe anyone else walking by) into the room while you're sleeping... We were up early and Babba took down the road to the Isalo national park. Again, you must have a "registered guid...

We left the hotel at 7:30am as Babba said it would be a long drive today. Leaving the Ranomafano park area we saw 5 brown lemurs in a tree along the road. Babba stopped the car and we watched them jump from tree to tree. Little acrobats they are. We stopped in the city of Ambalavo. This is a very busy city with lots of people and wooden carts fi...

We drove a short distance to Isalo National Park this morning on a very rough road, getting out at one point so that the bus could cross a stream. This national park was different again from the other parks we have been to. Here, we were surrounded by sandstone rocks, eroded into weird and wonderful shapes. We began by walking to a campsite clos...

01/ 10/ 2006 Had quite an amazing day yesterday. To celebrate Karen's birthday we took the only section of working train line in Madagascar to the Sahambavy Tea Plantations and then hiked through some of the rainforest corridor. The train was a specially hired old 1920s train with bamboo chairs and it looked and sounded like a truck on trainline...