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'''Whether you're 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 a tour of a vanilla preparation and export facility offers an insight into the lengthy and highly labour intensive transformation process of vanilla orchids into the fragrant black vanilla bean beans and baking ingredient that most people are familiar with.'''
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.
