Red Tsingy
Good to know
- Best time to go
- April–November
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- not-accessible
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
The Red Tsingy is a surreal landscape of eroded laterite pinnacles near Antsiranana in northern Madagascar, coloured in vivid shades of ochre, crimson and pink. Unlike the grey limestone tsingy elsewhere on the island, these spires formed through the erosion of iron-rich clay soils exposed by deforestation. Ravines and columns rise in delicate, dripping formations that shift in hue with the changing light of the day. The site is compact and easily explored on foot, offering photographers an otherworldly scene of sculpted earth.
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