Étiquette : the big island of madagascar

Geography of Madagascar

GEOGRAPHY OF MADAGASCAR

The Big Island of Madagascar is cuted from north to south by a mountain range with an altitude ranging from 1000m to 1500m in the malagasy highlands. From the highland to the west of Madagascar on the Mozambique Channel side is the largest, occupied by low-lying plains.

On the other hand, from the highland towards the East of Madagascar on the Indian Ocean side, occupied by cliffs abruptly flattened on the coasts.

Indeed, the Highland altitude towards the East and the West has created a catchment basin of Madagascar and almost all the rivers and streams of Madagascar flow either in the east coast part or the west coast part.

The north of Madagascar is volcanic from a culminating point on Tsaratanàna to 2876 m altitude which is the highest peak of Madagascar.

The south of Madagascar semi-arid is divided into three parts such as the Southwest, occupied by uplands of limestones, the South point, occupied by the dry plains and the Southeast, by the Anosyan chains.

All these geographical characteristics condition a wide choice of theme travel in Madagascar.

Madagascar touristic destination

MADAGASCAR TOURISTIC DESTINATION

The destination of Madagascar is becoming more and more popular and the evolution of the number of tourists going to Madagascar continues to increase over the last 10 years. In 2017, the NEW YORK TIMES affirmed Madagascar among the 52 countries worth to visit, in 2018 the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER ranked Madagascar in the 21 best destinations in the world and currently Madagascar is ranked top 10 of the best tourist destinations by ECONOMIQUE FORBES and MODE VOGUE. Also more than 140 nationalities listed frequent the big island of Madagascar and the European tourists still remain the first consumers. As a result, Madagascar will become the best Africa destination and Indian Ocean destination.

Madagascar birdwatching and birding tours

So far, we have identified 265 bird species in Madagascar with 5 families and more than 100 of which are endemics to the Big Island. Some birds come from Africa, Asia and Europe every year during the rainy season those who are migratory and some of them are introduced like sad Martin of India. We can easily watch birds (common) anytime but many are concentrated and scattered in different regions and the rarest birds are located in places far from the beaten track or in dense or primary forests in Madagascar. All this does not discourage the ornithologists and amateurs, only the richness and the beauty of Madagascar birds which motivate them to make the Madagascar destination. We offer you some combinable Madagascar birding tours that we selected among the habitats with high concentrations of birds in Madagascar. You could choose your customized birding tour to Madagascar on the best period of birdwatching to Madagascar which is october to december.

Here are some twitching tour in Madagascar that you could customized