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== Your Guide to MadaCamp.com - a wiki about Madagascar ==

'''At first impression, the name “MadaCamp” may come across as having something to do with camping in Madagascar. However, this is far from the only topic covered here. Instead, MadaCamp This is a methaphor for everything about Madagascar presented within one campsite, so to speak. Anything wiki about Madagascar which can be published here as well as edited by anyone.To create a new page, point your browser to a location where a page does not necessarily already exist (eg. madacamp.com/Zebu) and click the tab named ''create'' to begin editing.

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<span style="width:32px;height:22px;float:left; margin-top: 5px; border: 0px solid green;">http://www.madacamp.com/extensions/GoogleMaps/To add your own images/button_map_open.gif </span> This to this wiki includes a Google Map authoring tool for adding satellite maps to pages. To create a Google Map, first [[Special:Userlogin| sign up]] and thereafter click on the map button above [[Special:Upload| Upload file]] link in the editing box for toolbox in the editor to appear. Find the region you wish to display and thereafter copy the generated <nowiki><googlemap>...</googlemap></nowiki> code into the edit box and save the page. <!--The map editor can also be used to add place-markers, info-bubbles, pathways as well as draw regions around areas on the mapsleft column.--> <br>

This wiki includes Google Map functionality with a map authoring tool for adding satellite maps to any pages. To create a Google Map, click on the map button http://www.madacamp.com/extensions/GoogleMaps/images/button_map_open.gif above the editing box for the map editor to appear. Pan and zoom to the region you wish to display. When done copy the generated <nowiki><googlemap>...</googlemap><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" border="0" style="margin/nowiki> code into the edit box and save the page. The map editor can also be used to place markers, info-top:10px;">bubbles, pathsways and regions onto the map images.

<tr valigngooglemap version="top"><td width=0.9"50%"><div stylelat="background: #5e8a00; color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px;">&nbsp; About Madagascar</div> Madagascar is located in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa. It is the world's fourth largest island, covering a total area of 587,041 square kilometres. The country is divided into six provinces, each named after its capital: Antananarivo, Antsiranana, Fianarantsoa, Mahajanga, Toliara, and Toamasina also known as Tamatave. The continent separated from Africa 165 million years ago, and since then its flora and fauna have evolved according to its own fantasy, like nowhere else in the world: Lemurs are known worldwide, but the red island (on account of its vividly coloured soil) is home to several endemic species of chameleons, fossas, frogs, birds, snakes, jumping rats, baobabs, carnivorous plants, orchids and many more strange "living beings"! With the lemurs, 80% of its flora, 40% of its birds, 98% of its reptiles being endemic, Madagascar is a naturalist's promised land! The same is true for the Malagasy people, about 20 million: a unique blend of African and Asian, whose culture resembles no other worldwide. The population is divided in 18 ethnic groups. The nomad Vezo fisherman swears only by the sea, the zebu is everything to the Bara of the desertic south, while land is the gretatest wealth for the Betsileo of the malagasy 937464"altiplano". The relative isolation of the island due to geography and recent history, kept the traditional way of living, rites and the ancestral beliefs, very lively and genuine. For the traveller avid to find something different, a dream! Madagascar has it all: deserted beaches, tropical forests, mountains, spiny forests, rice-terraced highlands...<br><br> </td> <td><div stylelon="background: #5e8a00;color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px;">&nbsp;Featured Articles</div> <!-- when adding a feature, copy template from here ...[[Image:??46.jpg|?link=?|left|70px]]'''[[?heading/link?]]'''<br>Summary...<br clear="all560059">... to here --> [[Image:BBC_image_00012.jpg|link=MadaCamp:Current_events|left|70px]]'''[[MadaCamp:Current_events|Madagascar in Crisis]]'''<br>Daily updates of the crisis in Antananarivo and elsewhere in the country reported by various media sources.<br clear="all">  [[Image:Anakao_00055.jpg|link=Anakao|left|70px]]'''[[Anakao|Anakao, an idyllic Vezo fishing village]]'''<br>Anakao is a small beautiful Vezo fishing village situated on a long stretched beach about 40km south ofTulear, where life can be very relaxed.<br clear="all">  [[Image:Ambalavao_03.jpg|link=Ambalavao|left|70px]]'''[[Ambalavao|Ambalavao, a charming town in the highlands]]'''<br>Ambalavao is a town with the largest zebu market in Madagascar and where herdsmen come to sell their cattle after walking with their zebu herds from virtually all parts of the country.<br clear="all">  [[Image:Ilakaka_021.jpg|link=Madagascar_Sapphire_Rush|The Madagascar sapphire rush|left|70px]]'''[[Madagascar Sapphire Rush]]'''<br>Madagascar, the fourth largest island on earth, is well known for its unique nature and wildlife. Throughout thecountry tourists have for long discovered the many amazing natural treasures aboveground, while the real treasurescan be found underground - precious stones.<br clear="all">  [[Image:Taxi-brousse_0001.jpg|link=Taxi-brousse|left|70px]]'''[[Taxi-brousse|Taxi-brousse, the Malagasy way to travel]]'''<br>An advantage in going by taxi-brousse is not only the low price, it is also getting to know the Malagasy people while sittingsqueezed next to each other and listening to the preferred music channel of the driver.<br clear="all">   <br clear="all"></td></tr></table> == Towns, villages and islands of Madagascar == <table width="100%500"><tr valignheight="top700"> <td widthscale="25%yes"> * [[Ambalavao]]* [[Ambanja]]* [[Ambatolampy]]* [[Ambatondrazaka]]* [[Ambenja]]* [[Ambilobe]]* [[Ambohimahamasina]]* [[Ambohimahasoa]]* [[Ambositra]]* [[Ambovombe]]* [[Amparafaravola]]* Amparihy-Bejofo* Ampitsikinana* Ampombiantambo </td><td width="25%"> * [[Anakao]]* [[Andapa]]* [[Antalaha]]* Antananarivo* [[Antanifotsy]]* [[Antsirabe]]* Antsiranana* Antsohihy* Arivonimamo* Befandriana-Avaratra* Betroka* Farafangana* Fenoarivo Afovoany* Fenoarivo Atsinanana </td><td widthoverview="25%yes"> * Fianarantsoa* Ihosy* Maevatanana* Mahabo* Mahajanga* Maintirano* Mampikony* Manakara* Mananjary* Mandritsara* Maroantsetra* Marovoay* Miarinarivo </td><td widthcontrols="25%large"> * Moramanga* Morombe* Morondava* Nosy-Be (island)* Boriziny|Port-Bergé* Île Sainte-Marie (island)* Sambava* Tôlanaro (Fort Dauphin)* Toamasina* Toliara* Tsiroanomandidy* Vangaindrano* Vatomandry* Vohémar </td></trgooglemap></table> <br> == Creating and editing pages ==

To create For tips on how to edit a new page, point your browser to a page location that does not already exist (eg. madacamp.com/Zebu) and click the ''create'' tab to begin editing. If you would like to experiment editing first, go to the so-called ''on [[SandboxHelp:Contents| sandboxHelp]]in the toolbox on the left or consult the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User'' which is a page intended for testing purposess Guide] of the wiki software.

To add and use your own images<!--This wiki also allows YouTube videos to be embedded directly on any page, first [[Special:Userlogin| sign up]] and thereafter click on thesee [[Special:UploadYouTube_video| Upload filehow to here]] link in the toolbox on the left.

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