Travel Planning
Best Time to Visit Madagascar
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.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Madagascar: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Heritage
Andasibe-Mantadia National Park: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The rainforest most visitors to Madagascar actually see, three hours from the capital, and not one of the six components of the Atsinanana inscription.
Heritage
La Haute Ville d'Antananarivo: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The upper town of Antananarivo, its royal palace and its nineteenth century streets, on the Tentative List since 2016 and not inscribed.
Heritage
Rainforests of the Atsinanana: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Six rainforest parks along the eastern escarpment, inscribed in 2007, on the Danger List for fifteen years and removed from it in 2025.
Heritage
Andrefana Dry Forests: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Limestone needles, canyons and dry forest across western Madagascar, in a serial property that was renamed and greatly extended after inscription.
Heritage
Royal Hill of Ambohimanga: Visitor and Heritage Guide
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.
Destination
Madagascar
The sacred hill at Ambohimanga, the limestone tsingy of the western dry forests, and an island whose story is human as well as natural.