About 130 million years ago, the current island of Madagascar separated from the African continent to settle in the Indian Ocean and lay off its other half, India.

Due to this division, the African island has one of the most curious and richest natural ecosystems in the world, and one of the best places to appreciate the particularity of the Malagasy environment is none other than the Avenue of the Baobabs.

What is a baobab"

First of all, let’s get to know a little about these trees. They are of the genus Adansonia and known as baobab, but also called bottle tree because of its shape or primate bread.

In the world there are about eight species of baobabs, of which six are found in Madagascar; they can reach a height of up to 30 meters and can live between 800 and 1000 years, which makes baobabs unique trees.
These bottle-bodied trees, according to a legend, were so, so conceited that a god turned them over, leaving the branches buried and the roots growing upwards. In fact, looking at some from afar, it gives the impression that the crown is roots.

When the roots point to the sky

To the northwest of the island of Madagascar, between the towns of Morondava and Belon’i, 25 baobab trees guard a dusty road as the only survivors of a tropical forest replaced by locals to promote agriculture, hence in Malagasy the baobab is known as renala or “Mother of the Forest”, in honor of the largest and most impressive trees not...