Morondava Travel Guide

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  Grand Tsingy area is about 600 square kilometer.The rock formation are so bizarre,is like labyrinth of spike tower, some height may be 300 meter,but for tourist area we allow to walk only some part of it,some area is very hard to access.That's why it has this name "Tsingy"... 

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  In the first pic is the exit at the other side of the cave where people waiting for their turn to climb up Grand Tsingy.It has to be one by one only ,we have to keep distance between each other.At this point everybody start to use the hooks on to the wire rope.Guide told us... 

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  This tip is for Klastophobia who has fear of narrow place.I'll show you some pics of a very narrow cavernous everybody have to walk through before arriving starting point of climbing Grand Tsingy.When we walked inside the cavernous it will be completely dark (scary right? :... 

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  Everybody have to walk with guide,not allow to walk on our own.My guide still be Roddy.We walked through flat land under the heat of the sun for about 10 minutes ,then start to walk up through the forest.We started to look for lemur,and we are so lucky that we found a group... 

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  Here are some pictures of animal I saw in Petit Tsingy area.1. Chameleon,we saw it since the beginning of the walk.It's quite big one.Luckily we met it at eye level so we can see it so close,he's moving upward on a branch.I think he made himself a little bigger when seeing... 

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  Here are some more pictures about Grand Tsingy. The first and second pictures are atmosphere at the parking area before start walking.We'll see small stalls selling fruits or some vegetebles.It can be anything of the day,depends on what local can find to sell that day.I... 

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  Show you some pic of flora in Petit Tsingy area.There are some Pachypodium,succulent trees and some palm tree. 

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  I like the first picture.The second also nice...umm....I like all then...Some parts are narrow,but still can walk through. 

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  If you can't imagine how hard or easy it is.These are some picture of stairway,steps or platform for our convenience.We don't need any climbing experience to do this ,so everybody can do. 

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  Before writing about Grand Tsingy,let me tell you about Petit Tsingy a bit.It's not hard at all walking on Petit Tsingy.It's just very short walk.Is it worth doing it? Yes, if you have nothing to do on the other half of the day.And if some are klaustophobia or has hight fear... 

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  On the way to Grand Tsingy,I saw a very small local school.So I stopped to greet them for a while.There were about 25 students age around 4-7 years old.When we arrived ,students just looking at us quietly ,nobody seems to be naughty or scream with cheerful like any other... 

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  I noticed that almost all tourist that I met along the way from Morondava to Bekopaka going to do the Grand Tsingy same day as me.I remember them when they drove past me while my car has broken down the day before.My hotel is one of the nearest to the park so I can arrive... 

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  I started my first day in Bekopaka by going to Manambolo ferry crossing area.The staff from hotel drove us instead of Jeff cuz he's been busy repairing the car some where.The national park office is right there.I paid for the park fee for 2 days.You have to decide how many... 

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  It's better to do pirougue trip in very early morning,especially in hot season cuz it's very hot.The scenery of river you see may let you think about cool breeze,but not at all.There was almost no wind and the sun ray is so strong,and almost no clouds.So prepare sunblock and... 

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  Sorry..I moved this tip to "transportation" tip instead.Please read "Road to Tsingy 1" from "transportation" tip. 

 rosequartzlover1 Says:  Here are some other picture continuing from the former tip.The first picture you can see how bad condition road it was.2.Resting under a big tree shade.My driver checked his engine and looked nervous,but he kept saying no problem.Toilet is everwhere around the bush,but be...