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'''Whether on a tour of the SAVA region exploring a national park in the SAVA region or just travelling through Sambava - , the de facto centre of the world's vanilla - a visit to one of the countless vanilla plantations and a vanilla plantation preparation and preparation export facility offers will offer an insight into the lengthy process of the transformming vanilla orchid transformation orchids into the fragrant black vanilla beanswhich most people are familiar with.'''
What can be seen depends the time of the year and the activities at the time of a visit. Usually, between May and June, the plucking of green vanilla beans happens across plantations along the northwest coast around Sambava, Antalaha and Vohemar as well as further into the countryside, while at higher altitudes, around Andapa and Marojejy, the harvesting usually takes place in July or August.
