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DISCOVER MADAGASCAR

Lose you so someday, through a hike, at the bottom of a campaign the central regions - so less sea - of this almost Continent and ask your way.
You will invariably get a response of the kind "continue North and., come to this place, take West... ». An also natural to move ease could come from distant sea men who had a compass in the head.

Their boats ? Variants of these canoes to profile both elegant and frail who today bring to shore fishermen of Morondava and Nosy Be. Other versions still meet, as well to Srilanka in the Tuamotus archipelago.

Outrigger canoe would have even served to the ancestors of the Māori to join New Zealand !

Its roads extended to the distant East African sides with stopover for some browsers and terminus for others, in Madagascar.

After the breakup of the Gondwana, which it was part, the island ended up be the fourth largest in the world with its 592.000 km² of area and its 5.000 km of coastline.

The East who smells the spices and tropical fruits, the beaches set in a lush tropical vegetation like to play with the burst of spray.

To the West, terrain slips in successive slopes to the calmer waters of the Mozambique Channel. It is the country of the great rivers, stretches of Savannah, and Baobab trees.

The North is to him only the summary of the island with its mountains, its fertile sinks, its harbors and its islets of end of the world.

The South crossed by the Tropic of Capricorn to 12 km of Tulear exposes its expanses of semi-desert and the vegetation bordering the unreal of her Bush in a reigning master year-round Sun.

The Center marked by the work of man and nature, also land of history, alternates its landscapes and its reliefs sometimes bruised by erosion.

But it can happen to this same erosion to Don his clothes of artist and sculpt world-famous wonders !
This is the case of the Tsingy, real limestone forest to sharp ridges, or the Boulder of Isalo where imagination will recognize a boot, a window, a lion watching over his land, or even a genuine Queen who are neither coat nor the Crown...

Its long geological process and its insularity helped Madagascar to develop, as in a laboratory protected from nuisances, an exceptional biodiversity marked by endemic records estimated at 80% for wildlife and 90% for the flora.

The man is unfortunately too often destructive.
The immense task of reddish sharp against the blue of the sea, the passenger both fascinated and intrigued contemplates through his window to the portrait of Majunga, is none other than the blood of the Earth punctured by a very long tradition of slash and burn, and deforestation, and carted to its mouth by the Betsiboka River.

Today Madagascar has decided to multiply by 3 the area of its protected areas.

Except for the fact to be genetic reservoirs of the fauna and flora, they play other perhaps less well-known but vital roles such as water towers, regulators of climate, shields against silting.

Or that, through ecotourism and concepts such as the basic community tourism, local or even regional development pole.

The Nature tourism represents today more of 50% the global market, and is growing faster than that of the seaside.

Madagascar has winning assets on both, with the 'Sea-discovery' pair, which differentiates it from many other destinations.

Captain Cousteau had two expressions to him to set the big island :

The first, countries of the bird-Roc, was referring to the mythical bird of the thousand and one nights, which he likened to the aepyornis, which continues to find giant eggs, intact, in the sands of the South.

The second, the island of spirits, related more to a sometimes enigmatic culture where the authority of the ancestors is omnipresent.