Madagascar East Coast
After days on the road, we arrived to a serene place, Palmarium Hotel, located by a narrow lagoon which is separated from the Indian Ocean by a barrier beach. It took 40 minutes by boat to get there. Our cottages for 2 were in a thick bamboo grove.
We spent our time watching lemurs. We saw so many lemurs that I stopped paying attention to them after taking more than 200 photos. There are over 100 different species of lemurs – bamboo, brown, crowned and so on and so forth. We went to watch them at different times of the day. Some lemurs are active during daytime and sleep at night while others only wake up in the evening. It is possible to see lemurs in the zoo all over the world but their natural habitat is Madagascar only.
The weirdest of all lemurs is the aye-aye. If the other lemurs are very likeable and look like big stuffed toy animals, the aye-ayes are freaky. According to local lore, aye-ayes bring bad luck or ever death. and must be killed on sight. They are now protected to save aye-ayes from extinction.
After two nights at Palmarium, we were ready to travel back to Antananarivo.