Leathmac: 05/01/2014

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Lemurs

I want a job working on lemur island. They are so adorable. The islands have rescued lemurs, ringtails, bamboo, black and white ruff, brown as in the photo and they are all really used to people so climb all over us looking for fruit. I had two ruffed lemur on my head at one time, so soft and cuddly.

We have been rain forest trekking for the last few days and have been lucky to find at least 8 different species of lemur in the natural habitat and maybe 4 species of chameleon along with many birds and insects. Our nature guide had the most amazing eyes for spotting things.

Our tour guide for this part also very nice, driver didn't say much but he sure could drive considering the road conditions and driving through the city. What a horrible fumes filled city, over crowded and dirty. The villages are very quaint tho.

We fly to the very south tomorrow for another lemur adventure in completely different climate and vegetation. Not looking forward to the flight but I'm sure it must be less scary than the drive today.

There won't be any internet again down there and probably not for a while now.

Madagascar is pretty awesome I reckon.

See yuz.

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From: Erin Macartney <elmacartney12@gmail.com>
Date: 31 May 2014 2:38:58 am NZST
To: Mum <helenmacartneynz@gmail.com>

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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Antananarivo

Our palatial room in Tana . Arrived safely and driven right across Tana. Very chaotic, dirty and obviously very poor. Glad we are not staying in the city but our hotel is amazing. Pity we leave again so early in the morning so won't get a chance to fully enjoy. We are high on a hill overlooking the city.
I changed 500 euro at the airport because it is not possible to do so where we are going. I now have huge wads of cash. Goodness knows how I am going to carry that around safely.
Will stay in touch where I can.
See ya.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Mauritius

The view from our private hotel in Flic En Flac. It's been a bit cloudy and windy here until today and we got to swim in the Indian Ocean at last. The swimming pool was too cold for me but the ocean was lovely. We went for a guided tour drive around the south of the island all day yesterday. It has quite a Fiji feel to it except that everyone speaks French mainly. Most speak English as well.
Off to Madagascar tomorrow. The rest of our flights had better not have been stuffed up.
Everyone is warning us to be careful, but they said that about Cuba too.