Madagascar · Indian Ocean coast & islands
The Avenue of the Baobabs and the west.
The Avenue of the Baobabs near Morondava is the country's defining image, and the western dry forests hold species found nowhere else.
Photo Yasmine Arfaoui / Unsplash
Kirindy is the place for fossa — Madagascar's largest predator, and one of the strangest animals on earth — and the western forests are dry, spiny and utterly unlike the eastern rainforest.
Tsingy de Bemaraha, a World Heritage Site, is a forest of limestone blades crossed by via ferrata and rope bridges. Reaching it is a genuine expedition and the road is seasonal.
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Elsewhere in Madagascar
- Andasibe and the eastern rainforestAndasibe is the closest rainforest to the capital and the reliable place to see and hear the indri, the largest living lemur.
- The south and the spiny forestIsalo is sandstone canyon country, and the spiny forest beyond it is one of the most alien landscapes in the world.
- Nosy Be and the island coastNosy Be in the north-west is the country's beach destination, and the smaller islands around it are the better part of it.
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