2007-03-01 01:13:20 · 3 answers · asked by Pearl 5 in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Madagascar
I went to Madagascar about 6 years ago for a month. I was an assistant on a lemur census project. It was a fantastic trip. I stayed firstly in the totally chaotic and scary capital, Antananarivo, which I don't recommend, although you will have to pass through it, then in the far north where the research project took place. Our base was in Daraina, a village in the middle of nowhere about 45 km NW of Vohemar. We went on several field trips to the forests around there to check for the preseence of the lemur species we were studying. It was mind blowing! I've never been anywhere else that was so undeveloped. The people who lived in some of these places hadn't seen foreigners for 20-30 years apart from a few african gem prospectors passing through from time to time. Bare feet, palm huts, fishing, rice and cattle, no communication even with the capital, let alone the outside world... The wildlife was also spectacular - we saw many different species of lemurs, chameleons, exotic birds, bats, snakes, etc, with great ease. The forest there was a so called "dry" tropical forest, not quite the jungle, and most of the land was degraded scrub used by the villagers to graze their cattle and grow rice, so the forest existed as isolated patches here and there in the more inaccessible slopes and valleys. If you go you will be knocked out by the extent of the environmental destruction... I inadvertently drank some river water at one point (from the Manambato, a crocodile infested but very beautiful river!) and spent several days laid low in the best place in Vohemar called Sol-y-Mar, run by a french couple. Vohemar is a good place to see Madagascar's cultural mix - chinese and arab immigrants mixing with malagasy peoples of east african and polynesian descent... Before leaving we had time to visit Sambava, centre of vanilla production with a splendid palm lined beach, and the tropical forest national park at Ranomafana, far to the south, where we saw loads more and dfifferent lemurs and birds. It was a superb trip. There's nothing else like it: GO!
2007-03-01 01:59:17 · answer #1 · answered by Alyosha 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have seen it though. Man, that Lion was funny.
2007-03-01 01:29:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no but i wanna go
2007-03-01 01:23:45 · answer #3 · answered by lilshortyjess 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋