Stone Forest

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 Forests of evergreen trees puts me in awe. Dry grass swaying in the fields behind my house also fascinates me.
 A vast area of limestone towers situated in the west of Madagascar in the Tsingy de  Bemaraha National Park  leaves me in awe.  600 square miles of razor sharp limestone towers knocked me out.
According to the experts the tall, rugged, serrated, razor-sharp, needle like tower formations was the work of nature - water dissolving and scoring, sculpting and carving the porous limestone. They call  the formation a karst system.
Experts also call the line-straight canyons grikes. 
While the skewer-like serrated sharp rocks can be intimidating  to an amateur  hiker like myself, lemurs and other birds and life thrive in the stone forest.
Tsingy  in the Malagasy language  means  " where one cannot walk barefoot."  Appropriately named.