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'''Whether exploring a national park in the SAVA region or just travelling through Sambava - the de facto capital of the world's vanilla - a tour of a vanilla plantation combined with a visit to a vanilla production and export facility, offers an insight into the lenghty and labour intensive transformation process of transforming the green fruits of the vanilla orchid into a the fragrant black natural vanilla spice that is mostly appreciated around makes it a much loved and certainly the world as an most highly priced ingredient in craft ice creams, quality chocolates and countless other sweetsgourmet deserts.'''
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.
