The Savanna

In the beautiful, one and only,

Package Includes:

•5 * hotel (The Ravelobe Hotel) with complementary massages

•Fresh-water – filled pool•5 * service•5 * everything you need

Geography

• Porous soil allowing water to drain quickly

• Dry grassland with scattered trees

• A place for animals that were chased out of their original habitat to go

• Provides thin layer of humus that provides vegetation with nutrients

• About 1000 to 2000 ft. above sea level (an ideal place for extremists)

Ideal Vacation Period: May-June

• Not too hot, not too cold with a perfect breeze!

• Plenty of water

• Plenty of animals returning from migration ( perfect time for picture taking)

• Lush green plants to lounge under and fresh, flowing streams and rivers

Plants to look for:

Baobab Tree

• Usually described it as an upside down tree because of legends

• All of the tree is useful the baobab's bark, leaves, fruit, and trunk are all used

• Can grow up to be 25 meters tall

• Grows special fruit called “monkey bread” that tastes excellent!!

Manketti Tree

• Prefers to grow in wooded hills and sand dunes • Straight trunk with stubby and contorted

branches and a large spreading crown • Can grow up to be 66 feet • The nuts give oil and are considered one of the

most important nuts• the fruit ripens on the ground and the color turns

from the original yellow to reddish brown with ripening

Senegal Gum Acacia

• Can grow up to 20 meters tall • Gum comes out of the tree when it stops

growing (Gum Arabic) which is used to make medicine

• Gum is very useful. For instance, if you get hurt, it is like a salve, and is used for many ailments like coughs, diarrhea and etc.

• Gives a nice shade and you could hear the birds singing on the branches!

Plants to Avoid!!!

Candelabra Tree

• Can grow up to be 10 meters tall

• It has little yellow flowers in mid-winter

• If a drop of the white sap from the inner tree comes in contact with the skin, a blister will form

• It will blind you if it touches the eyes and even breathing the fumes burns

Elephant Grass

• Can be as tall as 10 feet

• Grows along lake beds and rivers where the soil is rich

• The stems are coarse and hairy, and about 1 inch thick near the base

• They are razor sharp!! (enter these at your own risk!!)

Whistling Thorn

• Can grow up to be 18 feet tall

• Protects itself with pairs of long thorns up to 3 inches long

• Home to four different kinds of stinging ants who pierce these swollen thorns with tiny holes

• When the wind blows it turns old and abandoned spines into tiny whistling flutes

ANIMALS!!!

Malagasy Rats

• Weigh 21 to 1,500 grams

• build nests in tree cavities or in underground burrows

• They are the primary consumers that provide food for upper level consumers

Malagasy civet

• Weigh between 1.5 and 2 kg. with the male weighing more

• Short, dense fur which is a brownish color and has 4 rows of dark spots running along the back

• A popular attraction: can be photographed rather easily because it can be attracted to bait stations (whip out your cameras!)

Large-Eared Tenrec

• Weighing .03 - .21 oz.

• Small and shrew-like with very short, soft hair-covered tails

• Mostly solitary animals

• Specialized termites feeders and thus act as secondary consumers in an ecosystem

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