Articles tagged with "Madagascar"
How Madagascar's weather actually divides: the cool central highlands, the hot humid east and the dry southwest, when the rains come, what the cyclone season does to travel, and why altitude matters more than latitude here.
How to enter Madagascar: the visa-free allowance and the fee you still pay, the longer visas you can buy at the airport, the vaccine certificates, the cholera and Ebola screening, and the customs rules on food, vanilla and spices that catch people out.
The months that suit each part of Madagascar, what the dry season buys you on the roads, when lemur watching and whale watching peak, and the honest case for and against traveling in the wet months.
What the Rainforests of the Atsinanana protect, the six national parks that make up the property, why they were placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2010 and what changed when they were removed from it in July 2025, and which of them a visitor can realistically reach.
What the Royal Hill of Ambohimanga is, why UNESCO inscribed it, what survives on the hill, and how to visit a site that is still used for worship and pilgrimage rather than preserved as an exhibit.
What the Andrefana Dry Forests property actually is, why it is six places rather than one, what the Tsingy is and how you move through it, and the road advice that governs any trip to western Madagascar.