African Escape '26 | Read Trip Posts → African Escape '26 | Galleries Main Album » Day 5 – western Madagascar – Drive to the Avenue of the Baobabs Another cart pulled by zebu Pitstop for a pee break under the mango trees Where we had a quiet lunch Doug teaches haja to make balloon animals Cars on on board Fran with anika Sunrise over the manambolo river as we leave bekopaka Doug making balloon animals Us with alex and anika on the ferry 1 Doug and anik Doug and alex The narly top of the sacred baobab 1000 years old 2 Village shots on the way south 1 Thatched roofs make the house cooler than a tin one Doorways face east Flooded rice paddies A lone baobab The narly top of the sacred baobab 1000 years old 2 Sacred baobab 1000 years old 3 Sacred baobab 1000 years old 1 At the baobabs in love adika lodge At the baobabs in love 10 For sale in the shop At the baobabs in love 2 At the baobabs in love 3 We try to fit around the baobabs in love We try to twist like the bobabs in love Village shots on the way south the bags contain charcoal and kindgly for burning Village shots on the way south you can make out the mud walls As we walk down the avenue of baobabs before sunset 7 As we walk down the avenue of baobabs before sunset 1 As we walk down the avenue of baobabs before sunset 3 As we walk down the avenue of baobabs before sunset 5 As we walk down the avenue of baobabs before sunset 10 This one has a strange lower trunk As we walk down the avenue of baobabs before sunset 12 We picked a baobab sapling for mark The hole is dug Prep before planting The plastic is removed It gets placed in the ground Doug saturates it with water It s hard to make out but there will be a forest of baobabs here one day should they all make it Us with the sappling in the ground You can see the plaque with the error and the new one The marker for the baby tree Doug holds up the sapling so you can make it out