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00:0088 million years ago a piece of Africa broke free alone in the vast Indian Ocean it transformed
00:13into an alien world strange creatures even stranger landscapes
00:20animals that don't exist anywhere else on earth stone forests sharp enough to slice skin
00:40and giant trees so twisted they look planted upside down
00:55this is Madagascar an island forgotten by time that became one of Earth's wildest creations
01:05and nowhere is this strangeness more alive than in the West where the landscape looks less like
01:17Earth and more like a fever dream painted by gods
01:26here trees grow upside down their massive trunks balloon toward the sky while their
01:35roots seem to reach for heaven
01:41the baobabs ancient giants that have been watching over this land since way before humans ever arrived
01:51some of these trees are over a thousand years old
01:57these ancient giants are living water tanks each trunk holding around 32 000 liters
02:05tap one and you could literally fill an entire swimming pool
02:14but these giants are survivors of something tragic
02:19this avenue of baobabs isn't a natural forest it's a graveyard
02:24for millions of years these trees stood within a massive tropical forest that covered this entire region
02:41then humans arrived less than 2 000 years ago and changed everything
02:46the forest was cut down for farmland centuries ago
02:54only the baobabs remain spared because the first people to see them recognize something sacred
03:02but these ancient survivors can't prepare you for the challenges of simply moving through western madagascar
03:17take the tsirubahina river where what should be a straightforward crossing becomes something almost mythical
03:26some places are lucky enough to have bridges
03:35concrete spans that let you glide above the water like the modern world intended
03:42but not everywhere is so fortunate
03:52in remoter crossings there are boats to help
03:58flat practical vessels that carry entire cars across the water in acts of pure faith
04:04you drive your car onto a wooden platform that barely looks seaworthy
04:12then trust that this humble boat will deliver you and your vehicle safely to the other side
04:23and then there are the chingi de bemaraha
04:27stone forests that rise from the earth like nature's own razor wire
04:37limestone formations so sharp they'll slice through skin with the gentleness of a scalpel
04:48some tower 70 meters high creating a maze of stone blades that stretches beyond the horizon
04:56from above it looks like the earth cracked open and revealed its teeth
05:10an endless labyrinth of razor sharp pinnacles that could swallow you whole
05:18stand at the edge and you realize just how small you are
05:21the scale is almost impossible to comprehend
05:31it's a place where gps becomes useless and the only direction that matters is up
05:40crossing them requires a different kind of faith
05:43rope bridges stretch between the towers swaying gently as you inch across air above a landscape carved by lightning
05:56for generations villages avoided this place entirely too dangerous and too haunted
06:06only recently have these precarious pathways made it possible for humans to walk
06:11where spirits once ruled
06:18but it's not the landscape that's strange in the south of madagascar
06:23it's what lives here that defies explanation
06:26this is andrangitra national park
06:35granite peaks pierce the sky their jagged heights offering some of madagascar's most challenging terrain
06:45here hikers test themselves against stone towers that have been watching over this land since before
06:56continents had names
06:58the air is thin and sharp carrying sounds that seem to come from the beginning of the world
07:15but descend from these rocky heights to the lower valleys and the landscape softens
07:27green hills stretch beyond the horizon rolling gently toward distant peaks
07:33and it's here in these peaceful clearings that the true rulers of madagascar reveal themselves
07:45ring-tailed lemurs sun themselves on rocks worn smooth by countless generations their striped tails catching the morning light like living flags
08:06their legs are built for leaping between trees and trees
08:08here in the ocean
08:11and on the ocean
08:21watch the safarka lemurs try to cross open ground
08:24and you'll see evolution's most charming compromise.
08:33Their legs are built for leaping between trees,
08:37so when they have to walk they hop sideways like nature's own ballet troupe.
08:54But these aren't the only lemurs with outsized personalities.
09:12Bamboo lemurs twitch and fidget with nervous energy,
09:17as if they're perpetually worried about something only they can see.
09:24Meanwhile, the red-ruffed lemurs have mastered the art of relaxation,
09:36often found draped across branches like living velvet cushions,
09:41basking in patches of sunlight with the contentment of creatures who've figured out life's secret.
09:53And then there's the Indri, Madagascar's largest lemur,
09:57whose wide eyes give it the permanent expression of someone who's just witnessed something absolutely shocking.
10:04These lemurs carry 60 million years of separate evolution in their DNA.
10:17Over a hundred species that exist nowhere else on Earth.
10:31Until humans arrived just over a thousand years ago, some were massive.
10:35Gorilla-sized giants that dominated these highlands before disappearing into legend.
10:41We now travel deeper south to Isalo National Park.
10:51Here, the landscape shifts dramatically.
10:58Sandstone formations rise like ancient castles, carved by wind and water,
11:04into sculptures that seem too perfect to be natural.
11:15At the park's heart stands Fenetre de Lisolo.
11:21A natural window carved into sandstone that frames the endless landscape beyond.
11:28You're looking through stone that once lay beneath ancient seas,
11:32now a perfect portal to Madagascar's vastness.
11:40But when darkness comes, something stranger emerges.
11:48The eye-eye, a lemur with bulging eyes and a skeletal finger,
11:53taps against tree bark like biological sonar, listening for the hollow spaces where grubs hide.
12:05Part spirit, part predator, hunting in an echo chamber of sound.
12:19And then there are the true masters of Madagascar's evolutionary playground.
12:36Chameleons.
12:38Half of all the world's chameleon species live on this island.
12:42From giants the size of house cats,
12:45to creatures barely larger than your thumbnail.
12:56Watch one hunt and you'll witness precision that seems impossible.
13:06Each eye moves independently, scanning a full 360 degrees with no blind spots.
13:13When they strike, their tongue fires out twice the length of their body,
13:21faster than your eye can follow, hitting targets with the accuracy of a laser-guided missile.
13:28Scattered across the landscape, ancient Mahafali tombs emerge from the earth like forgotten monuments.
13:49Stone markers where ancestors rest, weathered by time until they seem part of the land itself.
13:55Somewhere in the shadows moves Madagascar's apex predator.
14:05The fossa.
14:07A ghost that hunts lemurs through the canopy with deadly precision.
14:13Evolution's answer to the absence of lions.
14:17Silent, elusive and the reason paradise still has rules.
14:21But to see how humans fit into this ancient equation,
14:34you have to leave the wild parks behind and follow the roads north.
14:42Winding ribbons of red earth that snake across endless amber hills,
14:47and through valleys painted in every shade of gold.
14:56These roads follow ancient pathways curving with the natural contours of the land,
15:02rising and falling through a highland world where time moves differently.
15:07Each turn reveals another vista of rolling grasslands, another distant village,
15:17another reminder that some journeys are as important as their destinations.
15:22And as these roads wind toward more populated valleys, the landscape begins to change.
15:39Rice fields emerge from the hillsides like nature's own staircase,
15:44carved into terraces that cascade down slopes in perfect geometric patterns.
15:50The terraces create a patchwork of colours that shifts with the seasons.
16:03Emerald green when the rice is young and reaching toward the sky,
16:08gold and amber during harvest time,
16:10and mirror silver when flooded fields reflect the highland clouds.
16:24Eventually these winding roads converge on Madagascar's beating heart.
16:31Antananarivo, the capital,
16:34built across a series of hills like an ancient amphitheatre.
16:41Home to over 2 million people,
16:43in a country of 26 million, the city sprawls in every direction.
16:50A testament to human persistence in one of the world's most challenging places.
16:55Despite being consistently ranked among the 10 poorest countries on earth,
17:05there's something remarkably resilient about this highland heartland.
17:14High above the city, the Rover Palace once symbolized royal power.
17:19Today, that same name has been given to something few would expect from one of the world's poorest countries,
17:30caviar.
17:34In the highland waters of Lake Mantasowa,
17:36sturgeon imported from Russia produce Africa's first and only caviar.
17:42Rova caviar, a royal delicacy born from Madagascar's unlikely ability to make the impossible seem inevitable.
17:58In villages like Ambodilendami, nestled high in the mountains,
18:03life moves to rhythms shaped by rice, rituals and the seasons.
18:08Here, every inch of arable land has been carefully sculpted into steps that follow the contours of the hills.
18:25These are communities where survival depends on understanding exactly when to plant,
18:30when to harvest and when to simply wait.
18:39Throughout the barren countryside, life still emerges.
18:48A single dirt road leads into Andrahybe village,
18:51connected to the outside world by this one fragile thread.
18:59Life has not really changed here for centuries,
19:03where survival still depends on understanding mother nature.
19:11Yet even in these remote locations, modern attractions draw curious visitors.
19:19At Analivari, geysers shoot from the ground where underground water meets volcanic heat,
19:26creating eruptions of steam and mineral stained earth.
19:36Across the grasslands, quad bikes carve paths through amber hills,
19:41offering another way to experience this highland vastness.
19:44It's a reminder that Madagascar's isolation has become part of its appeal.
19:53And hidden in the volcanic heart of these highlands lies Tritriva.
20:09A lake that fills the crater of an ancient volcano,
20:13its dark waters reflecting sky from depth that seemed to hold secrets from when the earth was young.
20:25But not all of Madagascar's attractions are found in the highlands.
20:28Follow the roads toward the coast and you'll discover that the
20:32call of the ocean has its own adventures to offer.
20:45At Sakalava Bay, the wind turns the sea into a playground for windsurfers.
20:53They ride the same trade winds that once carried the first settlers to these shores.
21:02On the beaches where these ocean winds blow, other ancient residents move at their own unhurried pace.
21:15Tortoises that carry time itself in their shells.
21:22Some alive today may have hatched before Madagascar became a French colony.
21:27They're 150 year lifespans making them living bridges between centuries.
21:38Beneath the crystal waters that lap these shores,
21:41Madagascar's isolation continues its work.
21:45Coral reefs explode in colours that have no names.
21:58Home to fish that dance between formations built over centuries of patient growth.
22:04This is diving into a world that exists nowhere else.
22:15Where evolution's creativity extends far below the surface.
22:19Scattered across these turquoise waters lie islands like jewels cast by some ancient hand.
22:39Nosy Ve rises from the sea like a green crown.
22:42While nosy tannically curves in perfect crescents that look almost too beautiful to be natural.
22:55Each one a small world unto itself.
22:58They drift across the ocean toward distant horizons.
23:01And every year these same waters become a highway for some of the ocean's most magnificent travellers.
23:15Humpback whales journey 8,000 kilometres from Antarctica,
23:20crossing half the planet to reach Madagascar's warm lagoons.
23:23They come here to give birth.
23:37To let their calves take their first breaths in waters that have welcomed new life for millennia.
23:43Following ancient migration routes they continue northwest.
23:56Their songs carrying across the Indian Ocean toward other volcanic islands that rise from the deep.
24:03Here crossing into the waters of the Comoros these same whales encounter something entirely different
24:17from Madagascar's ancient stability.
24:26A different nation but part of the same geological story.
24:33These are newborn lands. Places where the earth itself is still being written.
24:42The whales know these waters well but the islands they visit are Madagascar's geological opposite.
24:53Where Madagascar spent 90 million years perfecting its isolation in stillness,
24:58the Comoros, the Comoros create their wonders through constant change.
25:07Through volcanic fire that refuses to sleep.
25:12On the beaches of Chominy, black volcanic sand stretches along turquoise waters.
25:29Each grain is a fragment of lava that erupted only centuries ago.
25:33You're walking on ground that was once molten rock, now transformed into beaches,
25:42where ancient whales and newborn islands meet.
25:45At dragon's back, dramatic rock spines jut into crystalline waters like the fossilized backbone of some ancient sea monster.
26:05On Anjouan, a village spreads below a castle that watches over the ocean from its volcanic perch.
26:24As if guarding secrets at the island is still too young to tell.
26:29The plateaus of Diboyne and Oozio rise like green carpeted tables.
26:42Their grass covered volcanic slopes hiding the fire that built them.
26:46These elevated plains seem to float above the ocean, peaceful pastures that disguise the sleeping volcanoes beneath.
27:01While at Lac Soleil, an emerald lake sits impossibly close to the turquoise ocean,
27:21two different shades of paradise separated by barely a strip of black volcanic sand.
27:31It's as if the earth couldn't decide between fresh water and salt, so simply chose both.
27:53But it's at the heart of Grande Camorre where the true power of these islands reveals itself.
28:01It's at the heart of the sea.
28:05Rising like a sleeping giant, Carthala volcano dominates the horizon.
28:14One of the world's largest active volcanoes, its massive caldera stretches three by four kilometers wide.
28:22This is a mountain that refuses to sleep.
28:32Standing before Carthala, you're witnessing the opposite end of isolation's timeline.
28:41Where Madagascar spent 88 million years slowly perfecting its impossible creatures.
28:46Here, the earth creates new worlds in an instant.
28:57This volcano has rewritten itself over 20 times in just two centuries.
29:02Each eruption adding new chapters to a story that's barely begun.
29:07Our journey began with a piece of Africa breaking free 88 million years ago.
29:20We traveled through kingdoms of the bizarre dancing primates,
29:28razor sharp stone forests,
29:29villages unchanged by time.
29:44It's been a journey across worlds but also one story.
29:50The earth itself, writing wonders at the edge of time.
29:54Where Madagascar spent millions of years perfecting the impossible through isolation,
30:06these volcanic islands are just beginning their own chapter.
30:14What unimaginable creatures will evolve here?
30:17What new impossibilities will emerge when these baby volcanoes have had time to cool and create?
30:24In the shadow of Carthala's Smoking Crater,
30:30the next chapter of Earth's Stranger Story is already being written in fire and stone.
30:37Think isolation creates strange worlds?
30:56Wait until you see what happens when a country is almost completely empty.
31:00Click here to discover how Mongolia's vast emptiness
31:08shaped an empire that conquered half the world.
31:22An emerald trees are not having a Almaty of the island.
31:28And there's another way to investigate.
31:30What has happened at this time?
31:31How to find an empire that conquered the world.
31:32And then, how do you find this stradly?
31:33How to find some time in the queues of the civilization?
31:34You do know that you've picked up the territories in the world.
31:35We don't have to find it to be a place like this.
31:39You will find the place like this.
31:40So, let's see what the soul is left.
31:41It's a place like this.
31:41Why don't we see that,
31:43where we see the soul of the two buildings.
31:45What are you saying?
31:45What are you saying?
31:47It's just a place like this.
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