Madagascar · Indian Ocean coast & islands
The south and the spiny forest.
Isalo is sandstone canyon country, and the spiny forest beyond it is one of the most alien landscapes in the world.
Isalo National Park gives Madagascar its walking and its natural pools, and Berenty and Ifaty hold the ring-tailed lemurs and sifakas most visitors picture. The octopus trees and didiereaceae of the spiny forest grow nowhere else.
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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 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.
- 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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