Avenue of the Baobabs glowing at sunset near Morondava

Madagascar

Lemurs, baobabs and chameleons — an island of species that exist nowhere else.

Madagascar is one of the most singular ecosystems on Earth: the vast majority of its wildlife exists nowhere else. Okapi’s route crosses the island’s emblematic regions — the spiny forests of Berenty in the far south, the dry deciduous forest of Kirindy, the legendary Avenue of the Baobabs at Morondava, the eastern cloud forest of Andasibe and the wetlands of Lake Ampitabe.

The photographic cast is unforgettable: dancing sifakas, ring-tailed lemurs, the indri and its haunting dawn song, leaf-tailed geckos, endemic chameleons — and, on a night island visit, the elusive aye-aye. Giant baobabs under the Milky Way complete one of the most distinctive portfolios in nature photography.

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