MADAGASCAR

Madagascar is one of the top bio-diverse hot spots on the planet so when my daughter, Emily, went there for her college junior year abroad to major in environmental studies, I had to go visit her! It was one of the best trips I ever took because it was a personal mother-daughter adventure and a shared exploration out in the world together!

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  • Our first breakfast together on the student hostel roof in Antanananarivo, the capital. Peanut butter & jelly on freshly baked french bread a daily meal!

  • Strawberries and flowers in Tana's Sunday market.

  • Fresh flowers in the Sunday market right near a stream of open sewerage.

  • Tana is dotted with old buildings--like this hilltop castle-- built by the French in the 1800s.

  • On the outskirts of Tana rice fields are tended. Rice is a staple served with every meal.

  • Nosy Be was the first stop on our country tour organized by Emily.

  • Sugar cane field at sunset in the outskirts of Nosy Be.

  • The market at Hellville in Nosy Be.

  • Peppers, capers, condiments.

  • In the fish market of Hellville we get mud crabs.

  • We shopped for all the food we needed to take with us to the island where we were staying for 5 days.

  • We reached the island via ferry with all our supplies.

  • Judine, the cook from Emily's school, came with us to prepare delicious fresh 3 meals a day on the beach. No food there--bring your own!

  • Two ends of the island are connected by a sandbar which disappears under high tide isolating the fisherman's village on one end from the fancy resort on the other.

  • Emily in my red hat and red bathing suit on the most gorgeous beach ever.

  • Fort Dauphin in the south is where Emily lived and went to school.

  • The protected harbor at Fort Dauphin is bordered by a beautiful stretch of beach which serves as the town's outhouse for people too poor to afford their own.

  • "Downtown" Fort Dauphin in a approaching rain storm.

  • Emily at the local cafe where the students--American and Malagasy-- gathered.

  • 3 white Sifaka lemurs cling to palm trees in the lemur reserve just outside Fort Dauphin.

  • One white Sifaka lemur gazes out with green eyes. They have now been placed on the endangered list.

  • "Leaping lemur" demonstrates it's nickname. They get up on their hind legs to walk and leap and run.

  • I spent an hour lying out in this grass by myself with the lemurs.

  • The front yard at Emily's school in Fort Dauphin where she attended classes for 4 months. All courses conducted en francais.

  • Here at the side of a road outside Fort Dauphin, chameleons are plentiful.