Have a look at this site to see some great photos and read about travel in madagascar: Many Challanges, Many More Rewards, A Bicyle Journey by Michael Ayers.

If there was one thing I probably wouldn't want to read or hear about before leaving it would be something like incurable crippling mosquito-borne disease hit's island. But what are the chances of that?

While thinking about lemurs, I came across a question posed by the great scholar, Jay Leno: Scientists are complaining that [a] new Dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give kids a mistaken impression. What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing and dancing? I think Leno has a point here. Singing and dancing? That's a stretch.