So here's a bit more about the place I'll be going: Madagascar is not just a film! It is the world's 4th largest island and an amazing biodiversity hotspot with the vast majority of it's wildlife (~80%) found no where else in the world. The island split away from both Africa and India when the Gondwana supercontinent split. It is thought some species floated across the channels of water that separate Madagascar (Africa is about 400km away) on rafts of vegetation, where they then evolved independently. The island is well known for its lemurs, which may have arrived on Madagascar by this method around 50 million years ago.
Madagascar was first populated by people who traveled from Borneo in dugout canoes about 2000 years ago and by people from Africa across the Mozambique channel.
Map from the UCLA African Studies website.
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