Day 4

Second day trekking
We move to the primary forest after a search for more lemurs.
Hery, our guide keeps amazing us with all his knowledge about this place. He knows a lot about plants, birds, insects, animals, you name it!
He grew in this forest; in Ranomafana village exactly. He has spent months with researchers that come and spend days looking for a particular gecko or bird or fern. He has also traveled quite a bit in Madagascar, all the way to the North, where the army is literally fighting to keep the Rosewood alive in another National Park.

We arrive at camp 2 and a big group of young workers from Ranomafana arrives at the same time. At least 20! They are going to spend the week here building the shelters. We watched them preparing diner siting around their fires and pots. Rice and beans for a week; breakfast, lunch and diner!!!

One funny event though. Muriel managed to sit atop a caterpillar that stung her butt cheek. Ouch! She got a little panicky with the growing pain and rushed to ask our guide what to do. He suggested to apply some hand purifier. Guess who got the task to apply the purifier??!!! And right there, as quickly as she could she put the cheek out and Joao applied the paste. All this went quite fast, and suddenly we realized everybody was by now watching the scene, including the young workers!!! What a laugh!

When everything got quieter we went out for another night excursion. They always are a success. Tonight we saw 3 different frogs and 2 chameleons. I got better at night shots!