Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park tour

Tsingy de Bemaraha

Where no one can walk barefoot.

This is a unique place where it is impossible to find a large enough piece of land to step with your foot, since you have to walk carefully and tiptoe. Hence the name “Tsingzhi de Bemarha” translated from the Malgach language, walking on tiptoe or where no one can walk barefoot. This unique place is located on the west coast of Madagascar. The impressive mineral forest of Qingji de Bemaraha is a protected area and was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1990 (an area of ​​1,575 square kilometers). The views of the reserve are simply fantastic, it seems that everything is strewn with sharp gray needles in a strange mineral forest with impassable labyrinths, where at the bottom of the gorge, in palm groves, sifaki-white lemurs frolic like cubs frolic. This is unique in its natural origin you must visit! “Stone Forest” has been forming for millions of years! Rocky ledges and canyons were underground in the form of deep narrow karst caves, and monsoon rains washed away tens of meters of chalk deposits. Groundwater washed up the highlands, thereby creating caves and cracks in the limestone. Erosion spread vertically and horizontally, resulting in a “mineral stone forest” of limestone needles. This remote area was not previously a tourist route and only since 1998 the southern part (723 km²) was declared a national park. The northern section is still closed to tourists, as the reserve has an amazing wealth of flora and fauna, the species of which have not yet been studied. At present, canyons, gorges, pristine forests, lakes and mangrove swamps of the reserve are under the protection and research of scientists.

On our tour, visiting the reserve Tsingzhi de Bemaraha you will find eleven varieties of lemurs such as: dwarf fat tail, gray mouse, woolly lemur and sifaka lemur. And also here you can find the ring-tailed mongoose and several species of bats that live only in these places. Among the birds, about a hundred species of birds have been recorded, which are found only in this place and nowhere else in the world, such birds as: Madagascar fish eagle and crested ibis. There are also reptiles in the park: the Madagascar iguana and the long-tailed skink, which you will not meet anywhere, since they live only in this unique place.

Flora has a high level of local endemism, hiccup plants grow only here and nowhere else in the world! This Western part is mostly covered with deciduous dry forests, which are especially well adapted to the region’s extremely changing climatic conditions. The eastern section is formed by grassy savannahs and low-lying shrubs. Inside the canyons we find small areas of dense tropical forests and vines, as scurvy is very humid among high formations.

 Tsingzhi de Bemarha Park is simply incredible for its unique mountain formations. You will never find anything like it in the whole world! Consider, if you were in Madagascar and did not visit the scurvy reserve, then we can say that you were not here! This is not just a stone jungle – it is a home for lemurs whose lives are in danger. And these are hundred-meter sharp-needle “shells” that were previously underground and for many years constant rains so washed this Wonder of the World!