Tsingy Rouge and Ankarana National Park
Before heading south and west to Ankarana park, we struck out almost due east from Amber Mountain to make a quick stop at Tsingy Rouge. It lies at the end of a broad valley…
… and is much smaller in scale than Big Tsingy -
I bet you’ll never guess where the name came from. Red (sandstone) anyone?
This type of formation made me smile - it looks like kids under sheets playing “ghosts” -
The requisite shot with Steve for scale -
Just for comparison, this was Big Tsingy -
Tsingy Rouge had me reminiscing about Bryce Canyon in Utah, especially with the gradations of red and pink and the layering -
Moving on down south and west, Ankarana gifted us with some brilliant birds, from the Blue Vanga…
,,, to the Malagasy Paradise-Flycatcher…
Female
Male
We also found Gollum…um, I mean the Ankarana Sportive Lemur…
… and some Crowned Lemurs -
Male
Female
… and baby -
Ankarana has a Gray Tsingy…
… that was pretty impressive in scale, while giving us some tight squeezes as we explored…
As we walked out of the forest, we passed some baobab fruits…
They are softball size and fuzz-covered
… and checked out a sinkhole. In the next picture, I’m standing in a riverbed that is totally full in the rainy season, as is the sinkhole!
Just imagine the whirlpool there!
This Hoopoe was strutting his stuff…
… as he preceded us on the path out of the forest.
Goodbye for now!
