by Anthony | Nov 17, 2023 | Anjajavy, Madagascar
The northern side of Madagascar is remote, tropical, peaceful, and mostly untamed. You can hear about celeb guests like Leonardo DiCaprio in these areas. We went to this remote hotel to recharge after a safari trek through Kenya and Tanzania. You fly into a very small...
by Anthony | Nov 16, 2023 | Madagascar
You might not know it- Madagascar is huge. Also, their roads are (to be gentle) under developed. This makes travel take longer. Most people fly into Antananarivo (‘tana) because it’s the main city, right in the middle. Andasibe, however, is a place on the...
by Anthony | Nov 8, 2023 | Africa, Anjajavy, Madagascar
The Baobab tree is amazing, it’s a succulent.. yeah. Some of them are thousands of years old. One of them (which I didn’t see, but was in Madagascar) was so large they carved a small bar into it. The Baobab is also called “reniala” (“mother of the forest”)...
by Anthony | Nov 7, 2023 | Madagascar
This plant deserves it’s own post. The plant moves really fast. You touch it, or shake it, and it closes up, almost instantly. Plants are amazing and we don’t deserve them ! Mimosa pudica is a creeping annual or perennial flowering plant of the pea/legume...
by Anthony | Nov 6, 2023 | Madagascar
It’s probably nothing, but it’s also probably something. Whatever it is, it’s definitely not small.. I guess you could say “every little pond is potentially an impact crater” More cool Sky images over...
by Anthony | Nov 6, 2023 | Africa, Madagascar
About 30 minutes of walking into the scorching hot forest, we arrive at a hole in the ground. The temperature is what the locals would call “Mafana Be” which is Malagasy for REALLY HOT. It doesn’t look like much, and there’s a 40 foot ladder...
