Dear friends, After the two National Parks in the north, and another overnight stay in Antananarivo, we flew to the far south, landing in Port Dauphin after looking down on some lovely country, mountains, rivers and lagoons and a long coastline, the breakers white against the deep blue of the Indian Ocean. From Port Dauphin [...]
Dear friends, Another day, another National Park - this time we explored Amber Mountain, lush green rainforest and many creatures hidden within. It is so called because, in the evening sun, the earth glows a rich dark amber. The park is about an hour's drive from the town of Diego Suarez in the far north of [...]
Dear friends, The first of the National Parks we visited was Ankarana, about 120 km to the west of the town of Diego Suarez. This park is home to several species of lemur as well as plenty of reptiles, some of which, like the snakes, I was not particularly eager to see. Here you can [...]
Dear friends, I have spent the last two weeks in Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island and home to some truly unique flora and fauna. After flying into the capital city, Antananarivo which became the pivot, we flew to the north, then the south and finally drove to the east. In the north, starting out from Diego [...]
Dear friends, Yep, I'm travelling again. This time to spend a few days in Zanzibar with a friend and then on to Madagascar to explore the National Parks for a couple of weeks. I flew from Bangkok to Zanzibar via Nairobi and Kilimanjaro which afforded me some magnificent views of Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru rising above [...]
Dear friends, Just a 40-minute drive from my house is one of the best-managed elephant camps of the many, some 60 in fact, in the area around Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand. As part of my own continuing education about the welfare of captive elephants, I spent the morning there, observing, talking with the [...]