Madagascar : a great natural reserve

With 5.000 km of coasts, Madagascar offers two different faces, the east coast being under the Indian ocean strong influence has a great variety or weather while the west coast has much more peaceful weather condition.

The island is spitted in two by a chain of mountain that starts north and ends south. East of the mountains is the cliffs country with a flourishing tropical rain forest almost everywhere. The west is made of two sediment basins (Majunga and Morondava) with vast plateaus of sandstone as Isalo or chalky as Bemaraha.

The must-see in Madagascar : 

Surrounded by twelve sacred hills of the Imeria mountains, Tananarive is built on a huge black granite rock.

- The east coast, the "rosewood coast"
The east coast has its name after the rosewood that can be found in the rain forest.

- South coast, the "coast of Capricorn" 
South of Madagascar is a wide sediment basin where freedom finds its frame.

- The Northwest: "coast of the virgin islands"
From Diego Suarez to Maintirano, "The coast of the virgin islands" has got one of the most beautiful sites of Madagascar.

- The Southeast: the "coast of contrasts"
Southeast of Madagascar is known as the coast of the contrasts and owes its name to the climatic conditions that can be found there...