The situation of the hotel, its charm and comfort,
make it an ideal place L'office
du Tourisme de Tulear located opposite the place
of the vegetable market are benefits that you will enjoy your stay
in the capital of the south.
The town of Tulear, bright light under the hot sun of the Tropic of
Capricorn, is wide avenues lined with tamarind and flamboyant, small
streets groomed sand driven by an active population, warm and
colorful.
Tulear is located on a vast coastal
plain near the Tropic of Capricorn on the Mozambique Channel.
Off extends a long barrier reef (the Great Reef)
by 18 km long and 3 km wide. To the north is the river
Fiherenana.
Tulear is nicknamed the "city of sunshine" because she knows a hot
(26 degrees average) and semi-arid with less than 400 mm of annual
rainfall.
The town of Tulear is continuously swept by a wind,
the Tsiokatimo "(or wind south)
In
the seventeenth century, French
flibustiers landed in the bay of St. Augustine near the Tropic of
Capricorn and install a counter to maintain trade relations
especially with Masikoro (Sakalava).
But it was not
until the colonial period (1897) to see a real growth of the city
with the will of Gallieni to implement the French administrative
services previously isolated on the island of Nosyve and to a
regional capital .
Sightseeing Tulear
Museum of Arts
and South Malagasy Traditions (Cedratom): This museum presents the
life, crafts and art funeral of the population Mahafaly and
Sakalava.
Regional Museum of the University of
Toliara: This museum, next to the previous home to a small
ethnological collection and a huge egg of aepyornis. Museum of the Sea:
The small museum of the Oceanographic Institute identifies the
fishery resources of the lagoon. .. These include corals,
algae, sponges, shells, echinoderms, fish, turtles
In the central hall, a large aquarium houses a
coelacanthe, sin in 1995 near Anakao.
Arboretum of Antsokay: an area of 52 ha,
it includes more than 920 plant species of lemurs, turtles
removed, snakes and chameleons.
Coordonées
tel 94 941 73 depuis l'etranger
+ 261 20 94 941 73
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