Don't Miss Places In Madagascar

The island of Madagascar can be found along the waters of the Indian Ocean that is more than 200 miles apart from the coast of Mozambique. In the eastern part, forested mountain slopes rise from a narrow coastal strip fringed with rocks and reefs. Inland are high plateaus, which in many places have been stripped bare of natural vegetation. Madagascar separated from the African mainland about 170 million years ago, and many of the island’s animals evolved into species seen nowhere else in the world. However, human settlement and the loss of the island’s forests mean that its soils are...