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'''Whether 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 tour of one of the many vanilla plantations followed by a tour of a vanilla , preparation and export facility facilities, will offer give visitors an insight into the long and labour intensive and long process in of transforming wild vanilla from a wild orchid orchids and their green beans into the familiar and fragrant black vanilla beans and flavoring ingredient which pods that everyone is mostly familiar appreciates as an ingredient in ice creams and other countless sweet treats.'''
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 afield into the countryside, while at higher altitudes around Andapa and Marojejy, the harvesting usually takes place in July or August.
