After visiting the Lemurs Park in the morning, our afternoon adventure was to visit the former palace of Madagascar's monarchy. Madagascar was a monarchy until 1897, then it was a French colony until 1958 and since then, it is a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, with a pluralist multi-party system. The palace is on a campus of several acres with many buildings and much history. We learned that the national flower is the poinsettia and it grows to be as big as trees. The Madagascar flag is white, red and green because of the white blossom, red leaves and green stems of the poinsettia.
The palace and campus are on a hill top, so we had magnificent views of the capital city, Antananarivo, often referred to as Tana.
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