Avenue of the Baobabs
Nature
Giant trees that look as if they were planted upside down.
Along a dirt road in the west of Madagascar stand about two dozen baobabs, up to 30 metres tall. Their trunks are thick and smooth, with a small tuft of branches at the very top, like roots sticking into the sky.
The trees are hundreds of years old. They once stood in a thick forest. The forest was cut down for fields, and the baobabs were left.
- tall
- 30 m
- trees along the road, roughly
- 25
- kinds of baobab grow only on Madagascar
- 6
- 1
A baobab stores water in its trunk to get through the dry months.
- 2
For most of the year the trees have no leaves.
- 3
At sunset the trunks turn orange and red, which is when most photos are taken.
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