用英文介绍马达加斯加岛,不要中式英语!

用英文介绍马达加斯加岛,不要中式英语!

Madagascar is legendary for its profusion of wildlife and flora,80% of which is found nowhere else on earth.Isolated from the continents 160 million years ago,Madagascar followed a unique evolutionary path into enormous tortoises,elephant birds,and lemurs.Lemurs were the highest primate form on the island until the Malagasy people,of Afro-Polynesian ancestry,arrived a mere 2000 years ago.Though divided into at least 18 tribes or clans,the Malagasy share a belief in the power of dead ancestors.This belief explains the importance of tombs and funerals.Although the form differs among the clans,it is after the first burial that the Malagasy honour their dead.The best-known ceremony is the famadihana of the Merina people,a joyful occasion to communicate with a loved one whose remains are exhumed and wrapped in a new shroud.Some of the world’s most unusual birds are found only on Madagascar gorgeous ground-rollers,the diverse vanga family,the couas.Birders will be rewarded by a visit to any of Madagascar’s splendid reserves.If you long to kick off?most of the endemics,including oxylabes,newtonias and the rare Madagascar fish eagle,we recommend a two-week specialist birding tour.Ask us for further information.
Madagascar has three main climactic/floristic zones - the eastern rainforests,the western tropical dry deciduous woods and the semi-arid south with an unsurpassed diversity of plant species.We can arrange tours for the orchid enthusiast,who will be drawn by the 1200 varieties found in the rainforests,and special botanical and natural history tours.