🌳 Mission Accomplished! Met a 1,600-Year-Old Baobab in Madagascar
📍 Where? Tsimanampesotse National Park & Reserve Reniala (Near Toliara, at the end of RN7 highway) 🌴 Baobab Royalty P1: "Baby" baobab (500 years young) The KING of Tsimanampesotse (1,600 years old! When 3m-tall elephant birds roamed here 🦤) Unique red-barked baobabs—shorter but tougher than Morondava's giants, thriving in Madagascar’s driest region. 🌵 Surreal Landscapes "Baobab invasion": Hundreds of quirky, dwarf baobabs (way more than Morondava!) Rare pastel succulents on salt flats (ID anyone? 👀) Spiny forests: The ONLY place on Earth with these alien-like plants! s "fake baobab" is actually a Pachypodium) 🐢 Coming Attractions Full guide on these parks (and how to visit)! Meet the radiated tortoise —world’s most stunning tortoise, ONLY found here! #BaobabSafari #MadagascarUnplugged #SucculentObsession #SpinyForest #TortoiseParadise