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Day 4 - Ranomafana National Park
We drove past the local brewery this morning on our way to the gem factory. Everyone has sampled the local Three Horses Beer and have rated it quite highly. At the gem factory we were greeted very warmly and given a small polished stone as a gift and encouraged to choose more stone chippings to take home. As always at these sorts of places we were …
Le Parc National de Ranomafana
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 notre guide pour notre ballade dans le Parc. Sur le coup, nous sommes déçus car nous ne voyons pas …
Looking for Lemurs
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 climbing up and down the stairs to get to our cabin. The stars visible in the night sky was just spectacular! …
The Ascent of Man
... doesn't sap your energy and give your pair of gluteus maximus an excellent work out, then the draining humidity most certainly will. Today's 3 hour walk revealed 2 new lemur species - the fabulous White Ruffed lemur, with it's glossy black and white coat and handsome white ruff framing it's delicate face; and the Red Fronted lemur, of which we saw a troop of around 8, including a mother and baby, the baby's tale curled securely around the mothers waist as they fed on the ...
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 ...
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