Madagascar · Indian Ocean coast & islands
Nosy Be and the island coast.
Nosy 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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Nosy Be itself is developed by Malagasy standards; Nosy Komba, Nosy Tanikely and the Mitsio and Radama archipelagos are where the diving and the quiet are. Humpback whales pass Île Sainte-Marie on the east coast between roughly July and September.
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- 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 Avenue of the Baobabs and the westThe Avenue of the Baobabs near Morondava is the country's defining image, and the western dry forests hold species found nowhere else.
- 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.
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