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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 will provide an insight into the lenghty and labour intensive procedure of transforming the green fruits of the vanilla orchid into its fragrant black natural vanilla spice that makes it the much loved and certainly the most highly priced ingredient in certain quality ice creams, chocolates and gourmet deserts.'''
What can be seen and experienced will depend the activities that are ongoing during a visit. Between May and June, the plucking of green vanilla beans are completed across plantations on 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.
