Zoom in on this. It does not say "Hollywood".
Why the water tastes funny. Zoom in on this if you dare.
At the food court in Antananarivo
Street food vendors give you pretty grubby change
The river/sewer/dump/playground in Tana
Taxi-brousse from Antsohihy to Mandritsara. The mini-van based ones can't navigate the road.
Mandritsara Best Eastern $8 a night
At the taxi-brousse station.
Doing some laundry at Kateri's place at the Lycee in Mandritsara
Desperate for news
Kids in the schoolyard
Miss Kateri's classroom
Kateri's buddy got a Tim Mcgraw CD. ..The map on the schoolhouse wall was designed by the previous PCV.
Ground omby sauce on sticky rice. Yum.....omby is what they call Zebu, which is what you call Ox. Her tablecloth is a lamba, which has 43 other uses, mostly clothing.
Mandritsara garbage collectors: scrawny pig, dog, chicken.
Kateri's neighbors grind some corn
Boston is a cigarette brand. Otherwise, pointless.
Mandritsara. Kateri's school is in the lower right corner. I stole this photo from the hospital.
Mandritsara, looking northeast from the hill where the church and post office are
Our next hotel had indoor plumbing.
Enjoying Three Horses Beer, which received a gold medal for "being the furthest from Belgium" or some such
The Emerald Sea north of Diego Suarez. It's white sand.
Eroded limestone "tsingy"
Avenue de Baobabs, 8/26/08
I can has banana?....ringtail at Berenty Reserve. They're 'wild' but not afraid of people.
A mile-wide river during the dry season
The amorous baobabs
Hugging the Sacred Baobab. It's about 400 years old.
Verreaux's Sifaka lemur
Sifakas dancing. This is the way they get around on the ground because their hind legs are longer than their front legs, so they have to hop. This combines some lemurs at Berenty, Vakona, bad road, and a stolen YouTube video.
I thought I saw that rock move
It takes half a week to make one of these. Price: 3,000 Ariary (2 bucks).
Something about the rain and the heat makes it easy to grow flower bushes.
Mary Margaret decided to stay on the taxi-brousse as it made a couple side trips through town. For an hour.
At the Spiny Forest at Berenty Reserve, the flora got prickly
Sisal plantation guards. If you have a look at the map in satellite view you can see there's 100 square miles of sisal growing out there.
Yummm.
Typical Madagascar road.
Flying fox bat tree
Fisherman in the canal aside the BaobabCafe, Nosy Kely, Morondava
Lemurs are harder to spot than termite hills
Vakona Forest Lodge, near Andasibe, 9/2/08
Cross-country through the rain forest
Orchids
We aren't telling you where this is, otherwise everybody will want to go there.
You gonna eat that banana?..... former pets on Lemur Island, Vakona Lodge. This is a Black and White Ruffed Lemur
Baby brown lemur hanging on to mom. They are not marsupials, there's no pouch. They just hold on and jump around in the trees. Lemur Island at Vakona lodge.
I'm only interested in you if you have a banana
Crocs...Vakona reserve
Fishing in a dugout canoe
Artwork for sale in the desert
I AM smiling . . . . . leopard chameleon on the inland canal near Maroantsetra
Hiking the rain forest
Leaf-tailed gecko snoozing.
Vines go crazy.
Smallest chameleon, full grown
I thought I smelled bananas . . . Nosy Mangabe, 9/4/08
3 hour boat ride out to the Masoala peninsula
Masoala National Park - the rain forest
Looking south from Maroansetra. We took a ride in a pirogue all the way down this waterway. The island is Nosy Mangabe. In the distance is the Masoala Peninsula national park.
Time to go home and relax.
