Yesterday we took a quick day trip to Andasibe, a rain forest located about 145km from Antananarivo (~3 hour drive). The big attraction of this park is its Indris, the largest lemurs of Madagascar. The forest in Andasibe is much denser and wetter than in Berenty and it felt much more like a jungle, complete with leeches and other bugs. We walked around in a slight rain for an hour before we spotted our first group. Indris are very impressive animals, moving around by making huge leaps from tree to tree. Most of the time they don't even land but merely bounce off one tree trunk to the other in game of giant pinball in the forest's canopy (I realize this probably only makes sense if you saw it). Here are a bunch of pictures. On our way back, we stopped at a private collection of critters (from French entomologist Peyrerasse - spelling might be off - its 80 km from tana) where we saw some amazing chameleons as well as more lemurs. The collection was worth the stop, and its no detour on your way back to Tana. Here is a video of a brown lemur eating a banana up close, and a chameleon medley, enjoy!
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