The Isalo National Park is a National Park in the Ihorombe Region, in the southwestern corner of the Province of Fianarantsoa. It is a sandstone landscape that has been dissected by wind and water erosion into rocky outcrops, plateaus, extensive plains and up to 200 m deep canyons. There are permanent rivers and streams as well as many seasonal watercourses. The elevation of the park varies between 510 m and 1268 m.
The Avenue of the Baobab's is a prominent group of Grandidier's baobabs (Adansonia grandidieri) lining the dirt road between Morondava and Belon'i Tsiribihina in the Menabe region of western Madagascar. Its striking landscape draws travelers from around the world, making it one of the most visited locations in the region. The baobab trees, known locally as renala (Malagasy for "mother of the forest"), are up to 2,800 years old. They are a legacy of the dense tropical forests that once thrived on Madagascar.
The Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park is a national park located in Melaky Region, northwest Madagascar. The Tsingys are karstic plateaus in which groundwater has undercut the elevated uplands, and has gouged caverns and fissures into the limestone. Due to local conditions, the erosion is patterned vertically as well as horizontally. The word tsingy is indigenous to the Malagasy language as a description of the karst badlands of Madagascar. The word can be translated into English as where one cannot walk barefoot.
Nosy Be is an island off the northwest coast of Madagascar. Nosy Be means "Big Island" in Malagasy and is a popular destination among tourists. The volcanic island has an area of about 312 square kilometres (120 sq mi), and its highest peak is Mont Lokobe at 450 metres (1,480 feet). There are eleven volcanic crater lakes on the island. The island is also known for having one of the world's smallest frogs (Stumpffia pygmaea) and chameleon (Brookesia minima).
Andasibe-Mantadia National Park is a 155 square kilometre protected area, located about 150 km east of Antananarivo, consisting principally of primary growth forest in Alaotra-Mangoro Region in eastern Madagascar. This rainforest is habitat to a vast species biodiversity, including many endemic rare species and endangered species, including 11 lemur species. The park's two component parts are Mantadia National Park and Analamazoatra Reserve, which is best known for its population of Madagascar's largest lemur, the indri.
Antananarivo also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana, is the capital and largest city of Madagascar. It was historically the capital of the Merina people, who continue to form the majority of the city's estimated 1,300,000 (2013) inhabitants. The surrounding urban areas have a total metropolitan population approaching three million. All 18 Malagasy ethnic groups, as well as residents of Chinese, Indian, European and other origins, are represented in the city. Despite the crazy traffic and pollution, Tana is an interesting city to visit rich in culture and history.
Nosy Bora previously known as Île Sainte-Marie Île Sainte-Marie (and still popularly known by travellers as such), is an island off the east coast of Madagascar. The channel between Nosy Boraha and Madagascar is known for whale watching. Substantial groups of humpback whales migrate from the Antarctic to this breeding ground. The whales find conditions here that are well suited to their courtship and favourable for the growth of their young and before their annual migration to colder water. Although scarce, southern right whales are also known to appear along the coast from time to time.
Amber Mountain or Montagne d'Ambre is a national park in the Diana Region of northern Madagascar. The park is known for its endemic flora and fauna, water falls and crater lakes. It is 1,000 kilometres north of the capital, Antananarivo and is one of the most biologically diverse places in all of Madagascar with seventy-five species of birds, twenty-five species of mammals, and fifty-nine species of reptiles are known to inhabit the park. Other attractions include spectacular waterfalls and several crater lakes.
.Ankarana Special Reserve in northern Madagascar was created in 1956. It is a small, partially vegetated plateau composed of 150-million-year-old Middle Jurassiclimestone.With an average annual rainfall of about 2,000 millimetres the underlying rocks are susceptible to erosion, thereby producing caves and underground riversThe Ankarana Reserve is an important refuge for significant populations of the crowned lemur(Eulemur coronatus)[Sanford's brown lemur(Eulemur sanfordi) and other mammal species.