This is a wee landscape sequel to the first lemur post (more lemur posts to come, soon)
Anja Community Reserve is spectacularly situated.
I took the above photo as we walked out of the forest and onto the lakeside path at its foot; presumably, ring-tailed lemurs would sometimes walk down to this shoreline, to drink water.
Anja is 13 kilometres south of Ambalavao, which is the southernmost substantial town in Madagascar’s central highlands; ranging from 800 to 2700 metres in altitude, the highlands are mostly a plateau, punctuated by hills and mountains.
Devastatingly deforested, they are beautiful, nonetheless….and the human impact on them has not been entirely negative, as will become apparent in several future posts.
Towering nearly 500 metres directly above the pocket-forest of Anja Community Reserve is the granite formation known as telo mirahavavy – “the three sisters”.
The remaining photos were all taken within a few minutes of the one immediately above.
