The Swamp

This was shot just after sunrise in the Menabe region of western Madagascar.

These baobab trees are of the species Adansonia grandidieri and are endemic to Madagascar. Baobab trees - about 30 meters in height and up to 800 years old - are known locally as renala (Malagasy for "mother of the forest"), are a legacy of the dense tropical forests that once thrived on Madagascar.