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'''Whether exploring a national park in the SAVA region or happenning to travel just travelling through Sambava, the de facto capital of the world's vanilla, a tour of one of the many vanilla plantations, combined with a visit to a preparation and export facility, will give visitors an insight into the lenghty and labour intensive transformation process of transforming from wild vanilla orchids with their green fruits into the familiar fragrant black vanilla bean that everyone are familiar with and appreciates as an ingredient in ice creams and countless sweet treats.'''
What can be experienced depends the time of the year and the activities that happen to be ongoing during a visit. Between May and June, the plucking of green vanilla beans are done 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.
