Madagascar still feels like a lost world; almost everything that walks, climbs, or crawls on the island evolved there and nowhere else. We spent two weeks in June exploring the eastern tropical rainforests, the western dry deciduous forests and the southern other worldly spiny forests, and photographing some spectacular mammals, birds and reptiles along the way.
The eastern rainforests of Andasibe, showed a range of chameleons and gecko species, including Parson's chameleon and the leaf-tailed gecko, as well as lemurs including the Indri, Black-and-white ruffed lemur and Diademed sifaka.
In the dry deciduous forests on the west coast, we found the smallest of all lemurs (Madame Berthe lemur and Gray mouse lemur), as well as the elusive Fossa - the only major carnivore predator on the island.
The southern Spiny forest reserves added ring-tailed lemurs as well as the dancing Vereaux's siafa. The gallery forest also provided some wonderful bird and reptiles species both during the day and at night. Madagascar is definitely best explored at a slow pace and the photography helps with that.