Day 6: back to Ambositra

Today we have to go back to Ambositra where we will sleep next night.
 

Until cars join us, we continue to look for orchids by the roadside and we find some.

 

Here are two seedlings of Angraecum protensum which grow directly on the rock...perfectly lithophitic!!

 

 

Sometimes we discover, beside a little river, an other "allery forest, with certainly a lot of epiphytic orchids as we found yesterday...

 

Last discoveries for Itremo, dozens of feet of Hebenaria hilsenbergii on the grassy banks and this little snake which crosses quietly the track just in front of us.

 

 

 

 

The huge thunderstorms of these past days transformed the track in a field of mud.
One of our 4x4 was immobilized in a cart track of about one meter deep and it was necessary to return to take out it of this sticky mud. 

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After long hours, an other huge thunderstorm force us to stop...there is no more road in front of us, only a torrent of mud.

 

 

We arrive to the Hotel  in the middle of after noon and it is with a certain pleasure  we find a good shower, a real bed and a roof above our head for the next night...

Before dinner, we have time to compare our notes, our pictures, and to try to identify some orchids we saw the last past days.
We already found a lot of orchids and we are only at the end of the 6th day.