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Avenue of the Baobabs

Madagascar Toliara

Avenue of the Baobabs
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A dirt road lined with towering Grandidier's baobab trees, up to 800 years old, near Morondava on the west coast. It's most beautiful at sunset.


Tsingy de Bemaraha, with razor-sharp limestone pinnacles and suspension bridges, is reachable by 4x4 in the dry season.

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