Discover Madagascar & Comoros

Hike through forested canyons in the Parc National de I'Isalo, where ring-tailed lemurs scamper in the trees

Catch a whiff of cloves, ylang-ylang and vanilla driving north of Soanierana-Ivango

Drift down the Tsiribihina Riverin a wooden pirogue, passing cliffs carpeted with sleeping bats

Gaze into the vast jaws of an insect-eating plant in Parc National d'Andohahela

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