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Pt 3: Gem fever in Madagascar’s wild, wild west

Lonely PlanetFeatures correspondent
Roads Less Travelled: Madagascar

A sapphire rush in the late 1990s took the small village of Ilakaka from boom to bust – leaving it an unadvisable place to linger long.

A sapphire rush in the late 1990s took the small village of Ilakaka from boom to bust – leaving it an unadvisable place to linger long.