Madagascar Photographic Travelogue

 

Madagascar Photographic Travelogue

Published by China Photographic Publishing House

August.2011

Photographer Zhong Weixing

ISBN 978-7-80236-545-2

Preface：

It was all due to animated film by the name of "Madagascar" that I went there.And by this i want to express theat these photos were pretty much agthered along the way,one by one.

The streets of Morondava were terrible:the famed "Avenue of the Baobabs" was no more than a wide dirt path.However the scenery was quite good.The big clusters of baobabs created a rather formidable presence.The massive,perfectly straight tree trunks are ample,and their branches grow to a peak . The treetops form a round roof that strtches in all directions.Those branches and treetops reaching for the sky seem to brim with life,and yet they also have an emphatically statuesque bearing, as if in respect to the most staid mountain god.The women cart their daily necessities on their heads, dragging their daughters by the hand along that dusty Avenue of the Baobabs.Their clothes barely cover their bodies, their cheeks are hollowed, and yet their faces are all relaxed and magnanimous, asif the hardships of life are really no more than the natural law that drives us all. Exposed under the skies just like the baobabs,they stand tall and dream of faraway places as they walk alone...