The protected area of Tsingy de Bemaraha in the west of Madagascar consists of a national park and strict nature reserve. Recently I was contacted by the Dailymail to contribute to an article about our experience in the Tsingy de Bemaraha in Madagascar. Now check your email to confirm your subscription.There was an error submitting your subscription.
One of the wildest places I've ever seen and I seen some wild stuff in 10 years of working Seismic in the field all over Africa, S.C. Asia in India and Nepal, Thailand, Belize and N. Canada. This remains one of the best trips I’ve ever taken – so I hope others are inspired to head there and see it for themselves. They can’t yet explain what makes one place a worthy pilgrimage, while others are merely a backdrop, a place to walk on by.What they do know is that change, contrast, the idea of difference excites our brains more than those things that remain constant, that look to be the same.After the blaze of the scarlet tsingy, I almost felt bad for the more humdrum grey, their muted outlines spread across the mixture of tropical and dusty parched plains.Until I ended up climbing them, when they definitely had the last laugh.For they certainly made an impression. Even as we left the But while the movie brought the name Madagascar to many, it kept pretty quiet on the details of what and whom you actually could find here.Our cartoon heroes (a lion, zebra, hippo, and giraffe in case you don’t have children and have never seen the film) wash up on a deserted beach.The only known humans hang from a nearby tree, skeletal in aviation gear.Its current population stands at 25 million, its culture stretches back centuries, and its people identify into more than 20 different ethnic groups.And condensing all of that into the shape of one person, let me introduce you to our guide, the unmistakable, unshakable Floris.Floris looks like a man at ease with his life, a man in his forties or even fifties, who in America I’d imagine leaning back with a cold beer in one hand, barbecue tongs over the other, while sizzling smoking sausages responded to his touch.In the wilderness of Madagascar, he carries much the same demeanor.Despite the loss of sight in one eye, Floris can, quite literally, spot a chameleon at one hundred paces. That all the struggle of the ascent had been worth it (it had.) First one, then another. About Tsingy de Bemaraha Park This unique protected UNESCO heritage site is located in the Melaky region, northwest Madagascar. Sell custom creations to people who love your style.Find out what other deviants think - about anything at all.Experiment with DeviantArt’s own digital drawing tools. The tsingy of Madagascar ate the thin, needle-like rock formations in the country with have a soft, sweet sing-song name.As I teetered with one foot on a knife-edge and the other in the air, the word soft didn’t come into it. The site is unique with its biodiversity and exceptional landscape called the Tsingy - which can be translated into "where one can only walk on tiptoe". Madagascar’s largest collection of tsingy can be found in the Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve near Morondava in the Melaky Region.
This is the biggest protected area in Madagascar and is classified a Natural World Heritage by Unesco.