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Isalo National Park is the perfect place to spend a night or two near the end of a trip to Madagascar. The Isalo Rock Lodge is first class with nice rooms that have decks where you can sit outside and watch the sunset over the sandstone cliffs that surround you:
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About four weeks before we arrived, the local people were doing their uncontrolled slash and burn to create young grass for grazing cattle. The fire spead to the Isalo National Park and killed all but one of their remaining red-fronted lemurs. A family of 4 or 5 has been reduced to 1. It will be gone because there are no more to mate.
This one is a Red-Fronted lemur:
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While on our hike in the National Park, we came across this magnificent spider:
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The cliffs are truly spectacular. The following photos give you an idea of the view outside our room from the deck. This group is post-processed to recreate exactly what I actually saw:
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More cliffs:
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More cliffs:
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More cliffs:
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More cliffs:
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More Cliffs:
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More Cliffs:
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The following photo is a High Dynamic Range artistic version of the last photo:
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The landscaping outside our room and around the premises consisted of sand, rocks, and very interesting plants, many of which were blooming at the time.
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Thorny plant with red flowers called Crown of Thorns:
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Plant with narrow green and white leaves:
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