Short description
According to the UNWTO, Madagascar experienced a 73.1 per cent increase in the number of arrivals between 2000 and 2005, a figure double that of Africa as a whole and four times higher than the global average.
Long description
Discover Madagascar & Comoros
Hike through forested canyons in the Parc National de I'Isalo, where ring-tailed lemurs scamper in the trees
Catch a whiff of cloves, ylang-ylang and vanilla driving north of Soanierana-Ivango
Drift down the Tsiribihina Riverin a wooden pirogue, passing cliffs carpeted with sleeping bats
Gaze into the vast jaws of an insect-eating plant in Parc National d'Andohahela
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