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'''Whether exploring a national park in the SAVA region or travelling through Sambava, - the de facto centre of the world's vanilla - a visit to a vanilla plantation and preparation facility offers an insight into the long process of how the vanilla orchid plant is transformed transformation into fragrant black vanilla beans.'''
What can be seen depends the time of the year and the activities at the time of a visit. Usually, 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.