In 1936, famous Berenty reserve around 90 kilometres west of Tolagnaro has been founded by Henry and Alain de Heaulme, who had received the license to exploit 6.000 ha of land along Mandrare river to clear the forest and plant sisal. It was agreed to employ the locals which made the communities less vulnerable to […]
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Parc National d’Andohahela
This prime National Park alongside RN13 west of Tolagnaro is divided into three separate sectors covering 76.140 ha in total between 120 und 1.972 m altitude. The UNESCO world heritage site protects lowland rainforest as well as dry spiny forest and the extraordinary transitional forest in between the two. Andohahela is most famous for being […]
Domaine de la Cascade
Over the course of the last 20 years, 136 hectares of land have been protected nine kilometres west of Tolagnaro at the Domaine de la Cascade. In the vicinity of the last lowland primary forest of the great south, the goal at the Domaine is to protect the natural environment, enhance the area through reforestation […]
Vinanibe & Portuguese Fort – Vinanibe & das portugiesische Fort
A few kilometres west of Tolagnaro lies vast lake Vinanibe which is rich in prawns and connected to the Indian ocean by a small channel. There is a small islet at the northern side where Vinanibe river enters the lake, and on the islet is the so-called Portuguese Fort, the oldest surviving building in Madagascar. […]
Lokaro peninsula & Evatraha – Die Lokaro-Halbinsel & Evatraha
Evatraha is a beautiful, small coastal village at the north end of the vast bay starting at Tolagnaro peninsula. The best way to reach it is by boat via lake Lanirano north of Tolagnaro, from where one must cross the stunning mangrove landscape of the lake and its channels before passing the sluice leading to […]
Tolagnaro (Fort Dauphin)
Tolagnaro, also known by its French colonial name Fort Dauphin, is Madagascar´s southernmost city, built on a peninsula at the south-eastern tip of the island at the place of the former settlement Tholongar. After a brief visit of Portuguese castaways in the Antanosy region at the beginning of the 16th century, it has been the […]
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Brava, the wild one – Brava, die Wilde
With only 64 km2,Brava is the smallest of the nine inhabited islands of the archipelago, an underwater stratovolcano that had been lifted to the surface over the course of thousands and thousands of years. There is no volcanic activity anymore, but clusters of minor earthquakes occur from time to time, a proof that there is […]
Nova Sintra
The capital of Brava Island is Nova Sintra, sitting about 500 metres above Furna down at the seashore. A winding road leads up to Nova Sintra which takes no more than ten or twelve minutes, but you come to a totally different world. Where Furna is hot, humid and rocky, Nova Sintra is green, humid, […]
Chã das Caldeiras
The island of Fogo (fire) is a single giant volcano rising from the Atlantic Ocean. Once, it had been more than 4.000 m high, but 73.000 years ago its eastern flank collapsed into the sea, leaving a huge caldera at an altitude of around 1.700 m. Since then, regular outbreaks (at least one or two […]
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