Antsirabe to Ambositra and City Tour of Ambositra Had a leisurely start leaving our hotel at 9 AM since we only had a 2 hours drive today to our next stop Ambositra. Was now for the first time going South and again the landscape was changing. Very mountainous part of the country we went through today - but again really stunning scenery. Arrived as planned just before lunch at another nice hotel L'Artisan - so started with a beer at their lovely terr...

We backtracked using the same rickety wooden ferry as before and began the long journey to Antsirabe, staying over in the seaside town of Morondava, via Baobab Alley for the sunset (including a stop to pick up a new battery for the jeep). Lolo stayed with his family last night so we accepted to start a little bit later and headed off at 8.30 AM for the last very long driving day. There was a Zebu market on just outside Morondava so we did a quick stop there to l...

4 hours off road drive to Bekopaka - 2nd June For the first time we could have a bit of a lie in since we were not heading off before 9 AM - but unfortunately this were not the place where you could easily have a lie in since a lot of activity started in town already at 5 AM and was not easy to just sleep through. We had 110 KM off road 4WD to Bekopaka ahead of us and it was indeed a very interesting journey where we also had to drive through some quite dee...

Morning walk in Kirindy Reserve, Ferry crossing over Belo Tsiribihina river and staying in Belo Tsiribihina - Friday the 1st of June I got up a bit early and went down for breakfast at 7 AM - so sat reading in my Lonely Planet book when suddenly a Fossa turned up in the middle of the restaurant. I had to look twice before I realised it was the Fossa and then I quickly moved out of my chair and tried to walk backwards away from it. However it still followed me so...

Miandrivazo to Morondava, Baobab Alley and night walk at Kirindy Reserve - Thursday the 31st of May Headed off from our hotel at 8 AM since had a fairly long drive today as well but was a beautiful morning and some nice scenery, which we all 3 enjoyed. After 2 hours the driver offered to stop in a small village by a local market so Heather and I went for a walk here which was really interesting. We were the only white people around and everyone was very curious t...