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Madagascar has geysers — at Analavory, near Ampefy. This quiet volcanic lake district west of Antananarivo hides geysers, the Lily Falls and the island’s 4th-largest lake.

In the heart of Antananarivo lies a heart-shaped lake and a black monument topped by a golden angel — a memorial to Malagasy soldiers who died for France in World War I.

One plain rectangle of cloth explains Malagasy life: the lamba carries babies, clothes the living, cushions loads — and, as the lamba mena, wraps the ancestors themselves.

Antsirabe looks like a French spa town because it was built as one — by Norwegian missionaries in 1872, for cool air and thermal springs. The ‘Malagasy Vichy’, explained.

For the Vezo of southwest Madagascar, the outrigger pirogue carved from a single tree is tool, transport and tent. Meet the sea people whose whole life sails in a lakana.

High in the granite massif of Andringitra, tropical Madagascar freezes — frost, bitter wind and rare snow around Pic Boby (2,658 m), the island’s highest climbable peak.

The indri — babakoto, ‘father of man’ — is fady to harm because many Malagasy believe it carries ancestral spirits. How a taboo quietly protects Madagascar’s sacred lemurs.

In 1643 France built Fort-Dauphin, its first colony in Madagascar — doomed by disease and isolation, ended by massacre in 1674, but immortalised by Flacourt’s famous history.