Day 3: October 8, 2011

Common Brown Lemur

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October 8
Went to Perinet today. Saw Common Brown Lemurs, an immense translucent dragonfly, tiny and large chameleons, some gorgeous birds, some lovely plants, etc.

Being "in nature" was odd today, since 

• Various guides at Perinet kept putting chameleons in easy-to-see locations for us
  
• When we walked on a road outside the park, the exhaust fumes were horrible
  
• Malagasy people's cell phones kept going off
  
• We met a guy walking his pig a long way to slaughter, whipping it with branches to keep it moving

This shows a gecko and them some chameleons.

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We're staying at the Vakona Lodge. Our room is about five flights of stairs up the side of a hill/mountain. [Later counting revealed it to be 65 steps.] It's pretty--actually two rooms, one up a spiral staircase. I'm on the porch now. I can hear a generator, what I guess is a tree frog, and people washing dishes in the lodge restaurant. A bird is whistling.

I'm falling asleep writing this! The pace was more intense than I had anticipated, plus I guess I have jet lag.