The East
Eastern Madagascar is a green world: tropical rainforests, long golden-sand beaches and the Indian Ocean shape the lives of coastal populations. It's the richest region for biodiversity, sheltering rare lemurs, the aye-aye, golden frogs and endemic orchids.
Ranomafana National Park is home to rare species such as the golden bamboo lemur. The Pangalanes Canal, a 600 km waterway along the coast, offers a unique pirogue journey through fishing villages. Sainte-Marie Island is a sanctuary for humpback whales from July to September.
The Pangalanes waterway
Ten days in a motorized pirogue on a canal dug a century ago: sleep in villagers' homes, fish with locals at sunset, perhaps cross paths with an aye-aye in the nearby forest (it brings luck, they say), and finish at Sainte-Marie for the humpback whale ballet.
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