Morondava for the Avenue of Baobabs

We crossed back to the west coast of Madagascar for our final night stay before returning back across the Mozambique Channel.

Our stopover, after diverting over Antananarivo following weather predictions, was Morondava, famed for the thousands of ancient baobab trees and the avenue of baobabs accessible by road.

An absolutely incredible experience seeing these majestic trees dwarfing us.

Some of the pilots on our expedition - Carsten, Louis, Llewellyn, Marc, Bruce and Hennie

The Durban boys selfie - Dave, Llew, Louis, Lee and Marc aka Cark or Troll

The Airport at Morondava where we spent our last night in Madagascar

Ox or Zebu wagons, bicycles and walking.. main means of getting anywhere for the locals

Some nasty looking bullfrogs at Morondava

Meeting the local kids

Baobab selfie with Llewellyn

These beautiful trees

A chameleon on my shoulder

No visit to Morondava would be complete without a visit to the fresh meat, fish and veg market

Bruce declines some of the favoured seafood

Sunset on Madagascar Expedition

The sun sets over the hills in Durban, South Africa, where I come from, so it was different and spectacular to watch the sun setting over the ocean on the western shores of Madagascar at Morondava where we spent our last night in beautiful accommodation - Palissandre Cote Ouest 

There was a huge beach on front of the hotel with low lying land, so the sea comes in at high tide. There were even boats stranded in the middle waiting for the tide to change.

Our stunning hotel at Morondava with the west coast Mozambique Channel in the background

Exquisite chalets on the beach

I had a swim in the pool despite it being quite chilly in the water, warm out

The sun setting.. small lagoon in the foreground which we crossed to get to the edge of the sea

Dugout boats for fishing as well as many dhows offshore

On the other side of the hotel was a swampy river which seemed to flow into the sea nearby. We took a walk alongside and found an Italian restaurant and bought pizza to take with us for lunch in the plane for our 5 1/2 hour channel crossing the next day.