North of Tolagnaro and just across the road from Nahampoana, Saiadi botanical garden is its counterpart with an emphasis on the botanical side, although there are also tame ring-tailed lemurs as well as brown lemurs, chameleons and many birds. The neatly laid-out park is protected since 1938, but in 2025 we found it quite deserted, […]
Schlagwort: trees
A Baobab forest – Im Baobab-Wald
On the way from Lusaka to Lake Kariba in southern Zambia, after you passed the city of Kafue, a well-developed industrial centre with huge textile producing and chemical ventures, the road is all beautiful serpentines down the Zambezi escarpment. The road goes on to the border with Zimbabwe at the border town of Chirundu, but […]
Daraina & Loky Manambato
When we finally reached the edge of the dry deciduous forest, Amidou, our guide and somehow lonesome manager of Loky Manambato Protected Area, and his two friends, the Aye-Aye trackers, had already spotted the first group of Golden-crowned sifakas or Tattersall’s sifaka (Propithecus tattersalli) up in the branches of a grove of trees. We followed […]
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