Stone Forest - City of Towers - Madagascar
Last year I posted Lena's Stone Forest, now I've found another forest hope you like it. The Bemaraha National Park, situated in the west of Madagascar, has been classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990. And for good reason… 752 km of breathtaking scenery with this incredible stone forest known as the Tsingy.
Beneath this apparent austerity, an extraordinary world of forest canyons, humid caves and burning karst karren is inhabited by fundamentally differing plants and animals who thrive in close proximity.
From the Malagasy word, which means to walk on tiptoe, the term Tsingy has been accepted in common language to denote the exceptional topography. This topography of eroded limestone may exist in other areas around the world, but nowhere as tall, slender and extensive as the spires here.
