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Morondava is a town and capital of the Menabe region in south west Madagascar. Once the centre of the [[Sakalava]] Kingdom and a popular stop-over for sailors, it is nowadays rich in rice and sugar cane farming. As the population has grown in the area the forests have alsobeen gradually cut down, except the baobab trees which the locals has preserved for religious reasons. However, deforestation continues in large areas of the region including some of the remaining baobabs to make way for sugar cane plantations.

There is Morondava can be reached by a 700km drive from [[Antanarivo]] but since road conditions in the latter part between [[Miandrivazo]] and [[Malaimbandy]] are especially poor, such journey can take between 10 and 20 hours. Morondava has a domestic airport served and is best reached by plane, with regular daily flights by [[Air Madagascar]]. As the population has grown in the area the forests have alsobeen gradually cut down, except the baobab trees which thelocals preserved for religious reasons. However, deforestation continues in large areas of the regionincluding some of the remaining baobabs to make way for sugar caneplantationsconnecting with Antanarivo and [[Tulear]].