Day 2 in Ranomafana NP on the trail of the black and white ruffed lemur…….it was a beautiful morning and we got distracted by some golden bamboo lemurs munching on some rather large shoots. After a circuit or two, some forest scrambling and a call from the spotter we finally found our target lemurs - mum with two babies. They were very high in the canopy and we remembered our neck ache from the day before.
We were also treated to red forest rats, geckos and ground rollers plus a few leech bites.
After lunch by a waterfall we headed off to the local arboretum home to over 150 species of tree. Here we played with the world’s largest chameleon feeding him cicadas - the two horned Parsons chameleon that does not actually change colour. We also saw snakes ( not poisonous) which our guide Nicky played with happily and tasted local cherries straight off the tree.
Upon checking the step meter on the iPhone we discovered we had walked approximately 17 k and climbed the equivalent of 140 floors over the 2 days, we slept like baby lemurs.
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