Herper's paradise - Madagascar

[Pierre-Yves Vaucher]

@Jeroen => yes of course LOL !! blablabla
Google said: gosh, awesome variety, bravo and thank you .... You have been here how long? ah yes ... 10 days and in just 10 days you have seen all this??? de Bleu de Bleu is a tipical swiss expression !

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

de Bleu de Bleu is a tipical swiss expression !

I thought it was something with du fromage

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

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[Bastien Comment]

Thanks for the feedbacks! Indeed, Madagascar offers a very large variety of animals and I can only recommend to go there

Here is the last part of our trip.

Ranomafana 8th of February - 10th of February 2012

Some habitats and landscapes.

Night herping:

Hunting Uroplatus.

Some in-situ Compsophis laphystius.

And closer look to this snake.

That was the magical spot along which we found many cameleons, Compsophis, frogs and the Uroplatus.

Day herping:

This frog was a very protective mother and jumped at us making a strange noise if we dared touching the hole.

Nice camouflage!

Liophidium rhodogaster.

Nice rosy belly.

Bibilava infrasignatus.

Yannick, me and Teo, our guide in this area.

And with Mamy, our taxi guide who has been great during the whole trip.

Finally, just like it started in Andasibe, we finished with a last Sanzinia madagascariensis the morning we left Ranomafana.

I hope you enjoyed these pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them. Of course, if one of you wants to go to Madagascar and would like to have some hints, don’t hesitate to contact me. It’s not after a 2 weeks trip that I’ll pretend that I know the place but at least if you want to have some contacts like taxi guides or guides inside the parks (for instance, there was an excellent guide in Andasibe whose name was Donna or Donnah and he was by far the one who knew the best all the animals), just get back to me and I’ll gladly help you as much as possible.

So voilà, I think that’s it for 2012 at least for me. I’m already looking very forward to 2013 and I can’t wait to find the first snakes of 2013 yet. Until then, I wish again all of you a very happy new year!

Cheers !

Bastien

[Kenny De Boeck]

Rrrreally cool! Going there would be a dream come true, the monster Calumma is my favourite but also Uroplates and Brookesia are stunning!

Well, 2014 Belgian-Dutch reunion @ Mad'g..what do you think?

Great trip, love it, especially the frogs and cameleons

[Borji Heras]

this might be the coolest thread posted here

[Bobby Bok]

Rrrreally cool! Going there would be a dream come true, the monster Calumma is my favourite but also Uroplates and Brookesia are stunning!

Well, 2014 Belgian-Dutch reunion @ Mad'g..what do you think?

Great trip, love it, especially the frogs and cameleons

I would be definitely up for that!

[Bastien Comment]

this might be the coolest thread posted here

Thanks for the compliment, at least I can tell you it was the coolest herping trip I've made so far