“YELLOW”
THE GREAT SOUTH

For the driver following the National Highway 7, the Deep South starts at Ihosy, where the road enters the land of the proud Bara herders and their cattle. The climate and the soil become drier. Indeed, a mountain range prevents the trade wind and its rain from entering the South. We find here the land of the Mahafaly tribes who are famous for their magnificent funerary art. They build their tombs as permanent structures; their houses, on the other hand, are made of wood.  In the Tuléar region, the purity of the atmosphere is characterised by some of the most beautiful starry nights in the world. The Deep South is a strange universe, crossed by the Tropic of Capricorn, where nature seems to confuse ungratefulness and extravagance. What nature has to offer here is unlikely to be found anywhere else.

The beaches to the north and to the south of Tulear are characterised by endless white sand dunes. Here is the heart of the coral reef of the South West.  Inside it, the fabulous landscape characterized by corals, sea anemone, and sponges reveals itself according to the tides. On the inland part of the beaches the famous, unique and strictly protected “spiny dry forests” shelter a very wealthy endemic biodiversity.