Madagascar 🇲🇬

Capital City of Madagascar: Antananarivo

Population:
27 Million (2019)

Official languages:
Malagasy, French, English

Currency:
MGA = Malagasy Ariary

Madagascar’s rampant forests and the isolation of the island have shaped and preserved a natural “laboratory of evolution” that is otherwise unavailable on Earth. It is bad that this incredible biodiversity is threatened by aggressive deforestation. The forests of Madagascar are still a shiny, steaming mass of billions of dripping wet leaves with bouncing or crawling strange creatures from nature’s magic box: lemurs and sifakas, chameleons and geckos, aloe and evergreen, baobab and octopus tree.

Best time to visit

April to October (the dry season).

Highlights of Madagascar

Tsingy, surreal limestone pinnacles.
Remote Madagascar from a pirogue floating down the Tsiribihina River.
Hang out at Fort Dauphin (Taolagnaro) with its windswept coast against a picturesque mountain backdrop.
Sail out to Île Sainte-Marie, a former pirate’s nest.
Observe lemurs in the Parc National de Montagne d’Ambre.
Explore the rampant rainforests of Ranomafana National Park.
Take a hiking tour on the beautiful Masoala peninsula.
Avenue of mighty baobab trees in Toliara near Morondava.
Malagasy life in fast forward, the colorful streets of Antananarivo are full of it.