We have taken a week away from ReefDoctor to explore the west coast of Madagascar. We chose to fly to Morondava rather than go by road, a route which the Lonely Planet describes as taking 'three bone-shaking days' by car. From the town of Morondava it is a mere 8 bone-shaking hours by 4x4 to our final destination of Tsingy de Bemahara national park!
To break up the journey our first stop was at the Kirindy forest reserve national park, where we stayed one night and were able to explore the forest by day and also at night to see some of the endemic species of lemurs living there, including some of the nocturnal ones. The highlights included the nocturnal mouse lemur (the world's smallest primate), a chameleon, and lots of white sifaka lemurs which were happy to let us get quite close. We also spotted a couple of fossas (wild cats, Madagascar's largest predator) lurking around the camp.
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