Category: Madagascar

The Avenue of the Baobabs is Madagascar's most photographed place, a 260-metre stretch of dirt road near Morondava lined with 20 to 25 Grandidier's baobabs standing 30 metres tall. Most visitors come for sunrise or sunset and stay an hour…

Cyclone season in Madagascar runs from roughly November to April with a peak in January and February, and the east coast and northeast take the worst of it. Storms cut roads, stop ferries, disrupt flights and close several parks outright.…

Île Sainte-Marie, known in Malagasy as Nosy Boraha, is a narrow island off Madagascar's east coast offering the most accessible humpback whale watching in the Indian Ocean, uncrowded lagoon beaches and the world's only pirate cemetery. Whale season runs July…