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'''Tulear, also known as Toliara or Toliary, is a port and coastal town on the south west coast of Madagascar. There are with over 100,000 inhabitants from various and mixed tribal origins, such as [[Vezo]], [[Masikoro]], [[Mahafaly]], [[Antandroy]] and [[Karana]].'''
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Tulear's colonial style buildings, grand lanes and many innumerable multi-coloured [[rickshaw]]s leaves a lasting impression on its visitors. Since In this almost always sunny town the locals prefer rickshaw transportover other transport options, as such, there aren't are not many regular taxis and or motorised cars, at least not in comparison to other cities of a similar size, which makes Tulear and there are certainly no traffic jams. The result is an unusually unpolluted city, well worth staying and exploring for a couple of days.
While Tulear itself is missing a perfect swimming beach for swimming, [[Playa de la Batterie]] (close to the light tower), located approximately 4-kilometre walk north of town across some salt-production fields, may be worth visiting if not only for its scenery of large and beautiful sand dunes.
Other nearby attractions suitable for day-excursions include the botanical park of [http://www.antsokayarboretum.org l'Arboretum d'Antsokay] (or Antsokay Arboretum) and the viewpoint from the table mountain 12km south east of Tulear and the [[Reniala Nature Reserve]] - a 45 hectare nature reserve 27km north of Tulear.
