Massif Makay in Madagascar

[bruno]

Hello travellers, some of you may remember a year ago I posted a topic about the exploration of this mountain range. A few pics of palms were on the site. This time, only one, that I have not been abble to,identify.

Here it is, maybe some of you have good magnifying lenses

And here is the link to the expedition. It is in french, sorry about that but there are a few beautiful pictures of the place. Two persons from the expedition are still on site exploring and sending news to this blog every other day. Hope you will go to it and enjoy the exotic heat... It is very hot down there they say and lots of rain.

I will keep posting if I have news from them. I sent an email today. bruno

http://www.makaynature.org/wp/?cat=1

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[Succulentum]

Very interesting

thanks bruno

jean-bernard

[Tyrone]

Thanks for the link Bruno. Those Ravenea rivularis look amazing.

Best regards

Tyrone

[bruno]

I have just noticed there is a british flag on the upper right of the screen for english speaking palm fanatics. So, go visit.

This morning there is a new post saying they have discovered paradise on earth.

bruno

[Tyrone]

Bruno I'm going in for a closer look.

[Tyrone]

It didn't translate for me.

[bruno]

Sorry, the day to day adventure is not translated in english but the site is! And the pics don't rally need comments.

[Kris]

Dear Bruno

Very nice link and the stills seen there are like reading a national geography magazine.

Very beautiful and some kind of out of the world experience...

Thanks & Love,

kris

[bruno]

I met the young chief of the expedition yesterday in Tana, Evrard.

He showed me lots of beautiful pics, We will have them soon. Quite a few of palms but, as he is not interested in palms like we are, he did not especially look at them. But the ones he took are superb, of superb palms.

The one I posted up top: he told me the place had been burned a few months before, that's why the palms looks so sad. I think it maybe a bismarckia.

Keep this thread under close watch!

[Carlo Morici]

Merci,merci, merci!

[BS Man about Palms]

Thank you very much, Bruno!

[Kim]

Can hardly wait to see the photos. Thanks Bruno!

[Gtlevine]

Madagascar is still the most beautiful, exotic place I have ever been. Thanks for posting the pics Bruno, could not get the english version but the photos alone were worth it.

Gary

[Peter]

Thanks Bruno, and please feel free to post non-palm photos as well.

[Jeff Searle]

Bruno,

Thanks for the story and link. I think I can speak for others as well as myself in saying, we really do appreciate you taking your time and showing us this. And more pictures would be great.

Jeff

[bruno]

Back on the screen! I finally received some magnificent pics of that expedition which sounded very hard physically. Because of the extreme difficulty to enter the area. You will see that from the first pic: up and down.

[bruno]

Every time I come back on the forum to post pics, it seems that the way to do it is different! Now, let me try again. Sorry friends.

[bruno]

I hope I have it this time.

[bruno]

again really bad hein!

[bruno]

Once you're up there with all your gear and food and tents, you have to go down again, and up again...

[bruno]

Closer and closer

[bruno]

Lots of pandanus and ravenea rivularis. Very tall ones, up to 25 meters!

[bruno]

How to cross instead of going up and down... But one has to do the job of attaching the equipment

[bruno]

A new kind of spider discovered in Makay, very big, eats a lot, funny web!

[tinman10101]

Absolutely spectacular images, Bruno!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!!

[bruno]

This is the way to do it. Up and down. And once down, plenty of crocodiles. But no one has been eaten or attacked.

[BS Man about Palms]

Spectacular Bruno!!

Thanks very much!!

Please continue.

[bruno]

That's what it looks like down within the trunks. It is a swamp, but the team never talked about mosquitoes.

[paulgila]

awe-inspiring! thanks so much for posting these photos!

[Walter John]

Awesome Bruno, that first pic is the best habitat photo I think I have ever seen.

[Gtlevine]

Quite amazing.

[Kim]

Jaw-dropping photos!! Thanks Bruno!

[bruno]

Here is one of the inhabitants of the Makay. There are two varieties of lemurs.

[bruno]

The brothers...It seems again ipossible to attach two îcs at once.

[bruno]

It seems that oil palm are very present also in the makay! Very surprising for me.

[Jack Daw]

Beautiful pics, thank you so much for this thread!

[bruno]

another eleais guineinsis (spelling?)

[bruno]

In the depths of the canyons.

[bruno]

Here is an isolated and beautiful ravenea rivularis by a wide river that flows only in the summer.

[bruno]

All the pictures have been taken by Evrard Wendenbaum who is a journalist photographer, a really good one! He is at the origin of this expedition and looks like he is in his late thirties. A young explorer. If you have visited his site, the goal of these expeditions is to create a national park reserve there before everything is gone up in smoke...