Madagascar

Madagascar is the world’s oldest island, the the 2nd largest island country and the fourth-largest island, located off the southeast coast of Africa.Looking for an island that has it all? Well you won’t be short of activities here, from hiking, diving, climbing, biking and much more. Many of the species on the island are found literally nowhere else on the planet.

There’s the giraffe-necked weevil, whose appendage helps it roll leaves into tubes for its eggs, the aye-aye lemur, whose long middle finger helps it find grubs hiding inside trees and the Malagasy giant rat, which can leap three feet into the air.

It is home to the Avenue of the Baobabs which are up to 800 years old. If you are a keen diver or snorkeler, Madagascar offers some world-class diving opportunities, especially on the north of Nosy Be on the Radama or Mitsio archipelagos.Madagascar has a stunning wealth of natural beauty from dry spiny forests full of baobab trees in the south and west, to lush eastern rainforests, to wetland areas to high escarpments.