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Day 13. Nahampoana Reserve
In the morning we pay a visit to the bank to exchange Traveller
Cheques and take a taxi (the same malfunctioning car we had earlier)
to Nahampoana, a small private reserve that serves as an alternative
to Berenty, when it comes to a close encounter with Sifaka's and
other lemurs.
A friendly guide welcomes us and leads us through the park. It's
a nice place, some sort of miniature park with a bit of everything
that Madagascar has to offer.
We meet a group of Ringtails that eat the bananas we bought earlier
along the way. There's a chameleon, and the guide has a bottle
of grasshoppers with dismembered legs (so they can't jump) to
feed to the chameleon; one takes a grasshoppers between the
fingers, the chameleon rolls its eyes, localizes the snacks and
rolls out its enormous tongue to eat the grasshopper in a single
bite.
We look everywhere for the Sifaka's and we fear we miss them again
due to the hot afternoon hour (when they often sleep) but when
we're about to give up we track the little white bastards sitting
in a tree.
For a whole while we thoroughly enjoy the animals and their famous
dance; when they move over the ground they can't use their arms
so instead they "dance" sideways on their 2 legs. We are sitting
on the ground with our bananas and so the Sifaka's are forced
to dance towards the bananas. My wife is sitting on the ground
with the sifaka next to her. They look in each other's eyes as
if they're having a dead serious conversation.
On the way back the campaign tour of Marc Ravalomanana has arrived
again. Nearly everyone is dressed in shirts, caps and waves flags.
Cars are driving around the entire day with sound systems and
in the afternoon we see a Helicopter with the president skimming
through Lebonana Bay. It lands and within 2 minutes it departs
again. In the evening we have dinner in restaurant Zenj, truly
recommendable to anyone visiting Fort Dauphin.
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