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Cyclones from November to April, cool dry highlands from May to October, and an east coast that rains all year. Timing a trip to Madagascar.

Madagascar was settled from Borneo and from East Africa, and Malagasy people were later enslaved and shipped across the same ocean. A double history.

Ancestors are present, fady are local and binding, and a good speech is an art form. How Malagasy society works, and how to be a guest in it.

Four traditions on the UNESCO lists, a music culture that fills the highlands and the southwest, and a calendar that mostly is not one.

Rice at every meal, an accompaniment beside it, and a chili paste on the side. What to eat in Madagascar and what the menu is telling you.

The rainforest most visitors to Madagascar actually see, three hours from the capital, and not one of the six components of the Atsinanana inscription.

Limestone needles, canyons and dry forest across western Madagascar, in a serial property that was renamed and greatly extended after inscription.

The upper town of Antananarivo, its royal palace and its nineteenth century streets, on the Tentative List since 2016 and not inscribed.

Six rainforest parks along the eastern escarpment, inscribed in 2007, on the Danger List for fifteen years and removed from it in 2025.

A royal city, a burial ground and a set of sacred places on a hill north of Antananarivo, still visited by pilgrims after five hundred years.

Sixteen hundred square meters of stone steps in Port Louis, where a system that moved half a million people and reshaped the labor of empires began.

Mauritius is warm all year, so the question is not temperature. It is cyclones, humidity and the difference between the coast and the plateau.