{"id":33813,"date":"2020-02-11T08:18:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T06:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/highlights\/tsingy\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T16:47:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T14:47:16","slug":"tsingy","status":"publish","type":"highlights","link":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/destinations\/africa\/madagascar\/tsingy","title":{"rendered":"Tsingy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bemaraha N.P. and the Ankarana massif<\/h2>\n<p>A special phenomenon on Madagascar are the <strong>Tsingy,<\/strong>A<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Malagasy<\/span> \u00a0 word for a formation of<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">eroded<\/span> \u00a0 Limestone. Due to erosion, limestone has been transformed massively into a plateau with sharp points. This Tsingy can be found in the<strong>Bemahara N.P.<\/strong> and the<strong> Ankarana Massif.<\/strong> \u00a0 Besides black tsingy in Bemaraha and Ankarana you also have beautiful red tsingy in northern Madagascar. The red Tsingy does not consist of limestone, but of eroded sandstone formations with an impressive red color palette.<\/p>\n<p>The landscape of the <strong>Ankarana Massif<\/strong> is dramatic and magnificent at the same time. The massif is a limestone plateau with sharp points, the so-called Tsingy&#8217;s, which protrude high above the dry landscape. The plateau has many caves and underground rivers amid dry, green forests. The area offers a home to many lemurs, birds, snakes, chameleons and other special species. A truly rugged paradise!<\/p>\n<p><b>Tsingy de Bemaraha<\/b> \u00a0 is a nature reserve in<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Madagascar<\/span> \u00a0 registered since 1990 on the<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">World Heritage List<\/span> \u00a0 of the<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Unesco. The landscape in the reserve is very varied, from Tsingy to tropical rainforest on the hills.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Bemaraha N.P. and the Ankarana massif you will find a bizarre landscape of Tsingy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":301375,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country":[227],"highlight_category":[602],"continent_category":[186],"class_list":["post-33813","highlights","type-highlights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-madagascar","highlight_category-gebied-en","continent_category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/highlights"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233722,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33813\/revisions\/233722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=33813"},{"taxonomy":"highlight_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlight_category?post=33813"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=33813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}