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A Trip to Diego Suarez (Antsiranana), Madagascar

(The northernmost tip of the island)

A photoessay by

RAZAFINDRAVONIARISOA Euphrasie

zafivoniarisoa@yahoo.fr

Antsiranana

Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar

Nosy Be

Map from the internet with thanks

City of Diego Suarez (Antsiranana) (photo from the internet)

Nosy Lonjo

The Foch Place in front of the City Hall, with its stairs

The City Hall of Antsiranana

The City Hall as seen through Foch Place Garden

The Administrative Block

Another view of the same building

The Post and Telecommunication Office, near Foch Place

Diego Cap /

Cap d’Ambre

Nosy Lonjo (Lonjo Isle)

Antsiranana

Baobab nains (dwarfs), indigenous to Madagascar

Baobab nains (dwarfs), indigenous to Madagascar

Montagne de Français (Mountain of the French)

(26 photos counted from this one)

With her specificity and view, but also the degradation (baobab, tunnel, pilgrimage space, vestige: colonisation)

Degradation of the mountain (erosion)

Tunnel entry

Stalactites / stalagmites

A large stone

View from the top (coast of Nosy Lonjo)

Stairs on the mountain

View of Ramena Coast

View from the top: Pasira (It was full of mangroves before)

View from the top: another side of the coast

Deforestation

Deforestation

Tunnel in the mountain

Vestiges: wall on the top of the mountain

Crucifix built by Catholic believers

The other face of the mountain

Place of pilgrimage for Catholic believers

Another face of the mountain

Another face with new constructions

The mountain and its surroundings

Around the mountain (villages)

Degradation

Formation about Environmental Education with the teachers

Teachers: group photo after the formation in Environmental Education

On mission to Nosy Be (Be Island)

At Nosy Be

Soldiers, teachers, schoolboys and schoolgirls participate in planting trees (amelioration and protection of environment).

Malagasy Government gives much importance to the protection of the environment.

That’s why

many people participate in this activity.

Reforestation (Ankoririkihely)

The chief gives instructions.

A teacher demonstrates.

A young soldier plants tree saplings.

The End

The chief explains how to do.