"Its wildness blows everything out of the water," he says of his adopted home, where he's just built his third Madagascar Classic Collection safari camp, Namoroka Tsingy. The new seven-tent camp sits just outside a national park, the Tsingy de Namoroka, in the island's northwest. And the area is mind-blowing: 85 square miles of wilderness; six ecosystems, from incredible tsingy - that unreal landscape of limestone towers sometimes referred to as "stone forest" - to wetlands; and all sorts of creatures, including 10 species of lemurs. "There are also 21 species of bats, and the fossils of goodness knows what," says Tucker-Brown. "If you love the wild, and exploration, then there is nowhere else like it on earth. Madagascar is its own world."
"Madagascar, literally, is. It's the only African country with lemurs, but without the rest of the continent's dangerous wildlife. There are deserts to the south and wet tropical forests to the north. It also has some of the whitest beaches and palest blue Indian Ocean seas, which prompted another adventurer, Philippe Kjellgren, to come to the 'eighth continent' - and stay."
"If you love the wild, and exploration, then there is nowhere else like it on earth. Madagascar is its own world."
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