Northern Madagascar

Northern Madagascar is characterized by a wide variety of landscape and nature, the Tsaratanana massif which shows the highest peak of Madagascar, Maromokotra, culminating at 2880m brings rain and humidity to the region of Sambirano, Nosy Be and the region of Sambava while dry climate swept six to seven months a year by the trade wind distinguishes Antsiranana and its surroundings. Through difference of climate and micro-climate varying from humid tropical climate to dry climate, the vegetation of the northern region of Madagascar can change dramatically from one area to another showing humid tropical forest, dry deciduous forest to savanna interspersed with succulent and baobabs.

Highlights

Multitude number of bays in the harbour of Antsiranana, one of the largest natural harbours in the world, la mer d’émeraude or the Emerald sea, the Amber cape, Montagne des Français nowadays referred to by its Malagasy name, Ambohitr’Antsingy, tsingy rouge, the tsingy of the national park of Ankarana and its karst formation, the Windsor castle, the baobab forests, three species of baobabs are know in the North, Adansonia suarezensis, A. madagascariensis and A. perrieri, the islands of Nosy Be, Sakatia, Komba and Iranja, the archipelago of Mitsio, and its cohorts of turtle, humpback whales, the largest known fish, the shark-whale, the protected areas of Andrafiamena-Andavakoera, Loky-Manambato, the national parks of Anjanaharibe-Sud, Marojejy and Masoala and their emblematic lemur and bird species, and least but not last, the massif of Tsaratanana amongst the best known protected areas.