Madagascar: Tsingy de Bemaraha NP – Grande Tsingy
This national park is likely one of the most surreal and incredible places on earth. Limestone karst here, pounded in the wet season by acidic tropical rains, has eroded into an otherworldly landscape of sharp pinnacles and spires hundreds of meters high. In the Grande Tsingy portion of the park an elaborate via ferrata was constructed to explore the formations – series of fixed cables, ladders, rope bridges and free ropes. You wear a harness at all times and clip yourself to cables, you climb, scale vertical walls, pull yourself up, swing on rope bridges above an abyss after abyss, and eventually get to the top for an insane panorama of the Tsingy landscape in all directions. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site and easily in the top 10 of incredible places I have seen in my life!
