Madagascar

Did you know?

• 🦓Split from Africa about 165 million years ago — about 90% of its wildlife exists nowhere else on Earth.
• 🦓Home to all the world's wild lemur species — over 100 of them.
• ✨The Avenue of the Baobabs has trees up to 800 years old and 30 m tall.
• 👥Malagasy people are genetically closer to Borneo than to mainland Africa — settled by Austronesian seafarers.
• ✨Vanilla — one of the world's most expensive spices — comes mostly from Madagascar.