22nd - More lemurs

At 0730 we left the hotel to have a 4 hour walk in the national park. A 15 minutes’ drive later we got split into 3 groups with each our guide, with two spotters running around finding the animals and keeping the guides up to date.

It was a relatively easy walk with times of mud and slippery surfaces when we went off the beaten track to get closer to the animals, primarily lemurs. With most of them we got fairly close and it was made easy for us as they were mostly just sitting still. But if they started moving around they could be very fast. We managed to see the large bamboo lemur, a species they only have two of in the park (a father and daughter) and app. 80 in total in Madagascar. It had apparently been 5 months since our guide had seen one last time so it was just as fun for him as for us when we spotted it.

Stinkhorn mushroom.

A deal-leaf gecko of some sort.

Dragonfly.

Milne Edward's lemur.

Giraffe beetle. 

Afterwards we returned to the hotel for lunch before leaving at 1330 to the next destination, Ambalavao. We arrived at 1800 and got checked in and settled before dinner as usual. 

Tomorrow there will be a chance to see a paper factory followed by a silk ditto, a short drive will bring us to a private park giving us a chance to see ring-tailed lemurs and in the afternoon a 4-ish hour drive to our next stop, Ranohira.