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'''Whether you're one is exploring a national park in the SAVA region or just happen to travel through Sambava, the de facto capital of the world's vanilla, a visit to one of the many vanilla plantations combined with followed by a tour of a vanilla preparation and export facility offers will offer an insight into the highly long and labour intensive transformation process of in transforming vanilla orchids from a wild orchid into the fragrant black vanilla beans and baking flavoring ingredient that most people are which everyone loves and is familiar within ice creams and other sweets.'''
What can be seen depends the time of the year and the activities that are ongoing during a visit. 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.
