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'''Whether one is exploring a national park in the SAVA region or happen to travel 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 facilitiesfacility, will give visitors an insight into the lenghty and labour intensive and long process of transforming wild vanilla orchids and their green beans fruits into the familiar and fragrant black vanilla pods bean that everyone appreciates appreciate as an ingredient in ice creams cream and 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.
