26th - Relaxation, part I

As we were spending a couple of days at this resort where nothing is planned and we can – more or less – do whatever we want I decided to sleep in. Which was ruined by the fact that I woke up wide awake 0630.

I got up and out half an hour later, had breakfast and spent pre-lunch in the pool and at the beach. It was low tide and you could walk for quite a while and only have the water reach your thighs so it wasn’t as successful as I had hoped.

Lunch was had and at 1430 we took zebu carts (ox carts) to the nearby Spiny Forest Reserve where we were toured around to see various plants and all Madagascar’s 6 baobab trees.

Driving ox-carts to our destination was more fun than expected.

Leopard tortoises.

Three-eyed lizard.

Baobab tree.

Not a baobab tree, but a lizard sitting on a non-baobab tree.

Some of the trees were pretty big (group without the two Norwegians).

For dinner 6 of us left the resort and took a short walk down the beach where we located a restaurant with lobsters on the menu. After our order they removed it from the menu. 6 (large) servings of lobster + sides, 3 liters of white wine, water and 4 desserts ended up costing us the equivalent of app. 15USD per person. The price was, in other words, not bad.

We were a bit buzzed when coming back and it didn’t get better when we ended up in our bungalow with a sweet bottle of white wine and a bottle of rum. It turned into quite a late night.