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Madagascar
has a wide and exotic range of landscapes, from lush
montane rainforest to savannah, from barren brush to
stands of coastal forest teeming with life. In the north
of the island there are the ‘tsingy’, razor-sharp
limestone formations impassable to humans. Among a vast
system of caverns, pockets of forest wait to be explored
where the caves have collapsed. In the southwest of
the island there’s the ‘spiny desert’
or spiny forest, supporting 10 metre cactus-like plants
which grow nowhere else in the world. A tropical environment,
Madagascar suffers regular droughts in the south and
regular cyclone impacts along the east coast. |
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