Boats in Madagascar

Madagascar is an island country situated in the Indian Ocean, facing the southeast coast of the African continent, at the same latitude as Mozambique. Furthermore it is Africa’s biggest island and the fourth biggest in the world. It is separated from the continental mainland by the Mozambique Channel.

Madagascar «the red island » with its great rivers to the west flowing into the Mozambique Channel, has vast forests of deciduous trees that shed their leaves during the dry period, and thorny woods with strange tentacled plants, adapted to the sub-arid climatic conditions.
The flora and fauna display Asiatic affinities, but above all there are varieties of animals and plants unique in the world that don’t exist anywhere else. The scenery is magnificent and of great variety and includes the stone ruins of Isalo, rounded mountains in the south of the plateau, the forts at Tsingy, cut out of the limestone massif in the west, and the reefs of coral.

The climate is tropical and the coastal regions are hot and humid. The rainy period lasts from March to July. The central plain is dry and arid, the highlands to the northwest are the coolest, and the rainy periods are from November to December, and from February to May.