This once-prosperous town now has a most Sergio Leone-esque appearance. At any moment, you expect a guy to come and play a harmonica tune in your ears... It's a possible stopover between Tuléar and Morondava (but the direct road between the two towns passes near Bevoay, about a 3-hour drive from Morombe). There's an airfield (but in 2023 there were no flights), telephone network, Internet, an Alliance française housed in a tiny shack on the main street, a bank, a post office, a service station and a hospital dispensary.Near Bevoay, on the banks of the Mangoky River, lies the magnificent Ampanonga forest, with its hundreds of baobabs, some of them thousands of years old. The "Tsitakakoike", one of Madagascar's largest baobabs (27.30 meters in circumference), is said to be between 1,300 and 1,500 years old! Its Malagasy name means "if you shout from one side of the trunk, you can't be heard from the other". In 2018, it was thought to be on the verge of death, but a year later, while some of its trunks had collapsed, young leaves seemed to be growing back. Hope for the future. Not far from this sacred baobab, in the village of Andombiry (rural commune of Antongo), an even bigger tree was discovered, the "Tsitakakantsa" (which means "if you sing on one side of the trunk, the song cannot be heard on the other side"). Madagascar's new giant measures 28.98 metres in circumference.

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