Madagascar Trip - Day 5: Joffreville and Amber Mountain part2
Day 5 in Joffreville and Amber Mountain
Madagascar Trip - Day 5: Joffreville and Amber Mountain part3
Day 5 Joffreville and Amber Mountain
Madagascar Trip - Day 5: Joffreville and Amber Mountain part4
Last part of day 5
Amber Mountain National Park Madagascar Tour
Fascinating drive to the Amber Mountain National Park in Madagascar, a place were there are worst potholes than Britain but population that is so friendly and happy.
Madagascar la Montagne d'Ambre
Amber Mountain sacred waterfall
Madagascar - Amber Mountain to Nosy Komba
Part 2 of our expedition to Madagascar to search for the Aye Aye
Mountain d’Ambre National Park and more
Description
Journey Through Northern Madagascar
We journeyed to the city of Diego Suarez from our island home of Nosy Komba in Madagsacar. Travelling via taxi brousse and private car, we visited several reserves and parks along the way. These included:
Ankarana Reserve
The Tsingy Rouge
Amber Mountain National Park
The Three Bays Walk (not strictly a reserve or park, but a highly recommended walk along the picturesque coastline. It actually ended up being one of the worst experiences we had in Madagascar, find out why here:
The Emerald Sea (also not a reserve or park, but stunningly beautiful!!)
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THINGS TO DO IN ANTSIRANANA, MADAGASCAR
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Travel Notes:
- Filmed 22nd-26th August 2017
- We travelled with World Expeditions (Reef and Rainforest Package). Expensive but well worth it - many locations covered. Our guide, Raissa, was very knowledgeable and friendly.
- In Antsiranana, we stayed in Allamanda Hotel. No complaints - there is a nice restaurant downstairs.
- Be careful swimming in the bays around Antsiranana - quite a bit of sharp coral.
- There are many roadside quartz stands - a beautiful natural souvenir.
- Be sure to stop in Ramena fishing village for lunch. Delicious freshly caught fish. Maybe you will catch a glimpse of the latest haul being caught.
- French Mountain was a very dry walk but the views of the bay and Sugarloaf Island were very refreshing.
- Try to spot the world's smallest chameleon, the brookesia micra chameleon, in Amber Mountain National Park.
- Be sure to get right amongst the limestone rocks at Ankarana National Park. There are some tight squeezes. Has a very adventurous feel to it all.
- In Ankarana, we stayed at Relais de l'Ankarana. The electricity is only on during the day and mosquito nets are a must. A fun experience.
- Madagascar is the home of vanilla - try to find some along the way.
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Madagascar - Antsiranana (Diego Suarez), Sugarloaf Island, Bay of Dunes, Bay of Sakalava, Bay of Pigeons, Cap Andranomody, Ramena, French Mountain, Amber Mountain National Park, Anivorano du Nord, Ankarana National Park (Little Tsingy) and Ambanja.
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Joffreville & Montagne d'Ambre, Madagascar
Montagne d'Ambre National Park, North Madagascar
Diégo-Suarez la montagne ambre
visiter la montagne d'Ambre avec Bifaco excursion
La Montagne d’Ambre est un haut lieu d’endémicité avec 77 espèces d’oiseaux, 7 espèces de lémuriens et 24 espèces d’amphibiens. Ce massif volcanique recouvert de forêt s’étalant sur 850 à 1 475 m d'altitude. Six lacs et plusieurs fleuves et rivières sillonnent le parc.
Madagascar, THE RED TSINGYS
Los Tsingys Rojos de Idoro, se localiazan 60 kilómetros al SE de Antsiranana (Madagascar).
Bildershow_Madagaskar_Ankarafantsika NP
Bildershow aus dem Ankarafantsika-Nationalpark auf Madagaskar
Tsingy Rouge Park in Antsiranana (Diego Suarez), Madagascar
50 km south of Diégo-Suarez is a group of red tsingy beautiful, especially when we take advantage of the beautiful light of the afternoon. These tsingy come from an erosion also called lapiaz. The mixture of different oxides and the work of time gave birth to a set of a few hundred small fairy chimneys.
The red tsingy of Madagascar spike the air with striking beauty and a sense of majesty. While most travellers head to see the well-known grey formations at the Tsingy Bemahara National Park, a trip to the quieter Tsingy Rouge Park reveals these blood-red cathedrals of nature in an otherwise empty landscape. Here's what it's like...
It snaked towards us slowly. A scarlet, silted, rust-red, blood-red, iron-tinged flow. The water seeped around the edges of my boots, my footprints swallowed up within seconds.
It visibly stained my soles.
Up ahead, I saw two men walking, the two men who were travelling with me. But no other soul was there.
Their silhouettes appeared brush-like and black, all wrong against the sharp contours of the rock, like thick inky strokes across a crystal-gel display.
The heat, I’ll admit, had left me faint.
The Tsingy Rouge Park
Here, like a cavernous amphitheatre riven into the ground was a sheer rock-face of flurried flutes and rivulets, spikes, sharp edges, the natural equivalent of Picasso’s interpretation of a majestic cathedral organ.
Midway between the northern towns of Joffreville and Antsiranana (Diego Suarez,) this was the dry, dead dust of the Tsingy Rouge Park.
The curving swell of cream-green mountains dipped into this astonishing crescent of sharp red rock. The drive had been tough, the road windswept, the path teetering.
But now we were here.
Boots swallowing up sand.
Red rivers running by.
And staring, simply staring in wonder at this planet of ours that never runs out of its capacity to stun, its ability to surprise.
The Science of Tsingy
In scientific terms, red tsingy is a stone formation of red laterite formed by the erosion of the Idaro River in the region of Diana, in northern Madagascar.
In other scientific terms, neuroscientists still don’t truly understand beauty. What makes one site a worthy sight, another one to just pass by.
But one thing we do know: that change, contrast, the idea of difference excites our neurones more than those things that remain constant, that seem the same.
So perhaps that sheds light on why this place is so beautiful.
Perhaps it does not.
But most of all, I suppose, it really does not matter.
It simply is.
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Montagne d'Ambre et Mer d'Emmeraude
Montagne d'Ambre et Mer d'Emmeraude
Mada 2006 Coupe, Mpo le Manouche
Relais de la Montagne d'Ambre, bungalows dans les arbres
Visite d'un des bungalows dans les branches d'un arbre à litchis au Relais de la Montagne d'Ambre, Joffreville. Un classique des excursions depuis Diégo Suarez au nord de Madagascar.
BANDE ANNONCE |ZAHATANY 15 JUILLET 2017|DIEGO SUAREZ|MONTAGNE D'AMBRE|TSINGY ROUGES|
BANDE ANNONCE |ZAHATANY 15 JUILLET 2017
03 IHOSY
La culture du maïs a désormais un avenir prometteur dans les communes de Satrokala et d'Ihosy, région Ihorombe. Le Président Hery Rajaonarimampianina s'est rendu sur place à l'occasion de cette première récolte, en ce sens que ce projet est le fruit d'un partenariat public-privé.
Sacred waterfall (Mountain d’Ambre)
Mountain d amber is the most popular parks in North of Madagascar. In this National Park, we can find many biodiversity, it this biodiversity there are some animals, plants and the water.
Here the waterfall in this Parks. It is the sacred waterfall that mostly visited by the visitor is this parks. C3 staff of Madagascar with one intern and two junior ecogurads went to see the waterfall in this parks.