Mada pictures

Did it! Succeeded in putting some pictures on my blog! You can click on them to see a larger version of them. I got back from Madagascar two days ago. My laundry is done and bags unpacked. On Sunday I leave for Lima and will be gone till January. I hope to be able to post regular travel updates and photo's from Peru, Brasil and Argentina. But now, the Mada pictures.

As in most places in the world, especially the people are very photogenic and mostly the kids love having their picture taken. Nowadays with digital camera's they love to watch themselves afterwards and then want more pictures taken. The people of Madagascar are a big ethnic mix between the Asians who migrated first to Madagascar from Asia and then Africans who migrated afterwards.
































Another "people" picture but then of myself. Taken on Nosy Iranja, one of the most beautiful beaches I have ever been on. Two small islands linked by a sand bank. We went there on a day trip from Nosy Be. Enjoy!!!












Then there are the natural jewels of Madagascar. The Tsingy is a kind of rock formation that you can find in more places of the world but here in Madagascar they are especially beautiful. Here the Tsingy Rouges in the North of Mada.











Also Plants are very special in Madagascar. Off course there are all the types of Baobab trees but then also other kinds like the Pachypodium.











Well known in Madagascar are the Lemurs and Chameleons. Here a Woolley Lemur and a Ring tailed lemur and some different species of Chameleon.


















































Whenever you are in a national park you keep bumping into strange animals. Like these things on a tree that first looked like if someone with a wool sweater got stock on a tree, but then when you look closer and touch these things, they start to move and turn out to be some kind of bug!!!














Then there are the funky bugs like the giraffe one and then, to finish off, the very well camouflaged ones like this gecko. Good luck finding it!