8 Months This Once

Andasibe was a great place to end our time in Madagascar. There was a national park there where we saw quite a few lemurs and an amazing, fabulous, awesome, extraordinary, unforgettable, and mind blowing place called the Lemur Islands, but I'll start from the top. On our arrival at Andasibe we checked into our hotel called Feony'ny ala ( the voice of the forest in Malagasy - we would find out why it was called this the next morning). Maya and I liked it a lot. It had a pool table, ping pong, and foosball. It also had very nice bungalows. Ours had a loft that Maya and I slept in. After we got settled in and a warm drink we walked 2 km down the road to the entrance of the park. Here there was a visitor information center. We learned about the Indri Lemur ( the biggest living lemur - see photo of Maya below), the giant lemur ( the biggest ever lemur about as tall as a fully grown gorilla but it's not alive anymore) and other lemurs.  Maya "Indri" Nowotny

From Morondava we drove what was supposed to be a 2h drive on a highway which turned into a 3h drive on a really bumpy dirt road to a park reserve called Kirindy.  The road into Kirindy Park We arrived at lunch time checked into our Dungalow 4.0 and ate a light lunch.  Then we went on a walk through the park hoping to get our first look at lemurs! We walked through the forest for 5 minutes then, our guide spotted a Oustalet's Chameleon which was about a foot long and a faint green color hiding in a hole in a tree!      After about ten more minutes of walking our guide told us to wait there while he went in search for lemurs off trails! He came back and said he found a group of Sifaka in a tree!  After lots of pictures the lemurs decided they were getting tired of sitting still they jumped away from tree to tree! It was really cool to see them jumping!   We also saw a group of common brown lemurs.   We walked for 2 hours b