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Canal des Pangalanes: How to get there?
Eighty-one miles by boat from MananjaryCanal des Pangalanes: See when to go?
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Madagascar
Canal des Pangalanes Holidays
Built at the beginning of the 20th century, the Canal des Pangalanes was developed by merging hundreds of lakes and lagoons running along Madagascar's eastern coast. Stretching over more than 370 miles between Tamatave and Mananjary In the south, it boasts about 250 navigable miles.
Canal des Pangalanes: What to see nearby?
What our travellers think of their stay
Built at the beginning of the 20th century, the Canal des Pangalanes was developed by merging hundreds of lakes and lagoons running along Madagascar's eastern coast. Stretching over more than 370 miles between Tamatave and Mananjary In the south, it boasts about 250 navigable miles.
My suggestion
You must stop to visit one of the last steam-operated sugar refineries and have a taste of old rum, and/or a niaouli essential oil factory.
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