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Madagascar

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Place guide · Allée des BaobabsAllée des Baobabs

A 260-metre corridor of ancient baobab giants flanking the road between Morondava and Belanitra, Madagascar's most photographed landscape and a globally recognisable icon of the island.

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0218.800° S · 48.400° E
Place guide · Andasibe-MantadiaAndasibe-Mantadia National Park

A rainforested national park east of Antananarivo that protects the largest of the lemurs — the indri — and offers some of the most accessible and immersive rainforest experiences in Madagascar.

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0322.700° S · 43.800° E
Place guide · IfotakaIfotaka Community Forest

A community-managed forest in Madagascar's southern spiny forest ecoregion, famous for its populations of ring-tailed lemurs, radiated tortoises and a remarkable concentration of endemic species found nowhere else on earth.

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0420.050° S · 44.550° E
Place guide · KirindyKirindy Forest

A privately managed forest reserve in western Madagascar's Menabe region, famous for its population of the elusive fossa and as a research site for studies on lemur ecology and behaviour.

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Place guide · Nosy BeNosy Be

A volcanic island archipelago off the northwest coast of Madagascar, famous for its ylang-ylang and vanilla plantations, humpback whale watching, and some of the best scuba diving in the Indian Ocean.

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Place guide · Tsingy de BemarahaTsingy de Bemaraha

A UNESCO World Heritage Site of razor-sharp limestone needles in western Madagascar, covering 152,000 hectares and offering one of the most extreme and visually dramatic karst landscapes on earth.

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