Ranomafoma

This is why we came here. Last night we set up our tent and read by headlamp as we fell asleep to the sound of the waterfall nearby.  It gets dark early so I think we were sound asleep by 7:30.

We woke early to crepes and coffee.   Cafe au lait means coffee with sweetened condensed milk here.  Then we met our guide, a local from the nearby village to start our 6 hour hike into the rainforest.   We were lucky to have 4 sightings of different species of lemur! Lemurs are "before monkeys " and look like large squirrels crossed with raccoons and monkeys. They survived extinction in Madagascar.  

The rainforest floor was steep and sometimes slippery.  We both got a leech.  We brought lunch and ate it next to a beautiful waterfall.   Andrew took a swim in the freezing water. 

One more night at this site.  Tomorrow we head further south.