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respect their environment. but then comes many people from other countries, from africa, from asia, from spain, from france. many of us don't know the history. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la,

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market. >> over the years i've let a lot of extraordinary landscapes recede into a blur outside my windows. i've looked, maybe seen, maybe noticed, then gone. we all carry different experiences inside us. we see things differently, don't we? madagascar -- exotic, unspoiled paradise or microcosm for the end of times.

antananarivo, tana for short, madagascar's crowded chaotic capital city. >> how are you doing, man? base camp. >> wow, that's quite a rain. i don't know. i'm not sure if i can be in front of the camera. >> just ignore them. >> i'm so used to controlling everything. >> darren aronofsky, director of the films "pi," "the wrestler," "black swan," and sort of appropriate to our location, "noah." he asked me if he could go along on a trip with us. i said where do you want to go. >> madagascar, i knew almost nothing about it.

i knew it was an animated film i've seen a lot of times in my car. >> it is one of the more extreme places that you hear about but you know you'll never go to unless something weirdly summons you. and you're that weird force. >> we're on an island in the indian ocean with this amazing ethnic mix, an incredible landscape. something like 80% of the animals here don't exist anywhere else. >> what does it mean when an ecosystem goes out of balance? what is the blowback? >> here, you can see the blowback. people have been chopping down the forest. all of a sudden you don't have soil anymore, and you can't grow anything anymore. there we go. there we go. >> an important question. you are a vegetarian. >> yes. and it just sort of happened with the release of "noah."

in scripture he was a vegetarian as was adam and eve. humans weren't given permission to eat animals until after the flood. >> so we'll see who is doing better after the end of days. little social experiment here. >> madagascar was settled best we can tell around 700 a.d. by people from what is know indonesia, later africans. in 1895 the french took it, killed off a substantial number of people in the process, and as they do, left behind beautiful buildings and the french language. when independence came in 1960, it was sudden and ill prepared for. continuing political

incompetence has left most of madagascar's 22 million people living on less than $2 a day. >> do you know this place? >> yes. monday, saturday, before going out, before going tonight club. >> first meal in country and i suggested this place. i thought it would be perfect with aaron being a vegetarian and all. this is what you call being passive aggressive, i think. >> so what's good here? >> pork. >> pork, my favorite vegetable. >> just the head of the pork. >> it sounds good. >> i'm not going to have it. i'm going to go just with vegetables. >> you don't want to taste it?

>> i'm not going to taste pig head, not today. >> always take it with beans. >> rossi, the famous musician here, is out of a period out of favor with the previous government back home and elected to parliament. >> the leaves are from -- >> that's excellent. >> these days what are the big issues that are not being taken care of. >> poverty. >> not enough education. we are very rich. we have oil, but our political leaders most of the time are crook. >> how much does the environmental issues matter to the people or is it just about survival? >> they don't care. the international community, they've paid a lot of money to

protect the forest. you protect the monkey. you don't protect the people. i eat the monkey. if i'm hungry, i eat them. they don't care about the world is going more and more war. >> climate change. >> okay. you are going to die, yes? okay. you're going to die. that's life. for them, just normal. >> a lot of people feel that the future should be ecotourism, essentially working in hotels and restaurants for tourists. >> yeah. >> that's kind of a return to colonialism, isn't it? >> that's it. exactly. when i booked this trip, my friends said i was crazy.

why would i stay in someone else's house? but this morning, a city i've never been to felt like one i already knew. i just wanted to thank you for sharing your world with me. it felt like home. airbnb. belong anywhere. pretty good shape. >>chuck, i know i have a 798 fico score, thanks to experian.com. kaboom... get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. it comes with built-in wireless charging capabilities.

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tell me what you think of this. >> i'm looking forward to this. it's a very famous dish, goose. >> goose and shredded meat. >> very cool. >> there's always someplace where the flame is kept burning, history kept alive however faintly. >> this is the stuffing. >> these days in madagascar's capital city it's left to mariette. >> the epitome of the cooking is the way mariette cooks it.

♪ ♪ you are, you are like a sweet perfect bloom ♪ during the colonial period, mariette was a frequent colonial -- culinary ambassador. >> harry bellefonte. >> the go-to chef for visiting presidents and royalty. the success story -- her mansion high atop oatville, the former neighborhood of choice for aristocrats and colonizers alike.

though semi-retired, mariette continues to entertain guests from time to time. >> so this is broth with chicken and ginger. >> these dishes marry cuisine with the techniques of the classical french. >> so moisten the rice with the broth. >> exactly with the broth. >> wow, look at this. >> it is one of the side dishes. it's like a salad. string beans. >> most don't eat meet at every meal. most would eat rice broth with vegetables and that's it. >> i'd do fine. >> yeah, absolutely. >> this is a country that is very rich in natural resources. >> madagascar, we have a lot of things that a lot of people

want. for example, the trafficking of rosewood, prospecting for oil and gas, and don't leave anything for the rest of the country. this is an island paradise. >> and it is disappearing very, very quickly. >> a lot of our forests are being burned down. because people don't have land on which to grow their crops. >> the best case scenario is that ecotourism will save the day. the local people will be cleaning rooms, cooking, and performing traditional ethnic dances. >> yeah, absolutely. >> to me, this is not an ideal option. and we see it -- >> what's an ideal option, though?

>> heading south from tana, it's a very different country out there where rice is the difference between life and death. between the traditional slash and burn agriculture that's existed here since this island was first settled and the imperative of charcoal as heat source, 90% of the forests and jungles that cover madagascar are gone.

>> anything? >> not yet. they're very elusive. they're very difficult to see. >> thanks largely to the work of dr. patricia wright, over 4,000 hectares of forest have been set aside for a national park. her recently completed research station is a state-of-the-art complex that reminds one of that -- what was it -- jurassic merch. >> here he is. he is right know. to me. can you see him?

the greater bamboo lemur previously thought extinct. >> there's only 500 of these in the world in the whole wild. >> wow, lilly. what is the biggest problem? >> slash and burn agriculture. look at it. beautiful. it's so nice. >> he's ---ing on you, right now. >> he's taking a leak right now. >> hopefully that's not an editorial statement. >> look. this is the kind of bamboo chute that the lemurs loved. it's full of protein, and it's full of cyanide. >> the cyanide not a problem for them. >> they can tolerate all kinds of cyanide.

the cyanide comes straight through in the poop. >> do they know how they get it through their system? >> we're working on that. >> what is the dew on the outside of it? just dew? >> careful. don't touch. >> how is your finger feeling? >> it felt sharp, but a fuzzy sharpness. >> just wait a bit. >> it's just like fiberglass actually. >> leave tiny little cuts. >> am i going to die? >> probably. >> are you serious? can it go through the skin now that i've touched it? >> no, you have to eat it. >> hopes of a "black swan 2" the revenge, were dashed today. >> one right above you. >> has the film "madagascar" been good for the lemur business? >> i think the cartoon woke up

the world and that there is a place called madagascar although a lot of people don't think it really exists. >> so what do you think happens? >> how hard is it to maintain the forests? >> it's incredibly hard. we've been working with the villagers around the park, and i think they understand the value of these extraordinary lemurs and the extraordinary forests. the economic value of the tourism is tremendous for this country.

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the boundaries of the ranomafana park protect what they can of madagascar's rapidly diminishing rain forest, but it's not all about lemurs and rare species of unspoiled beautiful places. >> these are the tenella people. these are the people of the forest. this is the fifth time they've had to change the location of the village because they do slash and burn agriculture. this ceremony today is a ceremony to celebrate the fact that 17 people from the village are going to donate their land to conservation. it won't be cut down.

>> before the tenalla land can officially become a part of the park, the gods or the ancestors must be appeased and that often means that something must die. >> have you seen this a lot. >> you usually do go when this is happening. >> wow. >> for someone with as dark a world view, judging from his films anyway, he seems unusually uncomfortable with the bleeding realities of local custom

preferring instead to trip the light fantastic in the rain forest idle.

♪ >> how do you make the argument that it is in your interest to protest the forest when the forest means fuel, food? >> what we've had to do, of course, is make their lives better in exchange. health projects, education projects, tourism. many of the people work as tour guides. they work in the hotels. they have work. they didn't have any work when they got here, but also the benefits of researchers. we hire 85 people full-time. the director of the national park, where's your village that you lived in when you were a little girl? that's on one side of the park.

>> the ancestors presumably okay with the land transfer. it's time to party. dr. wright worked hard to establish the park with the stated aim of protecting the absolutely unique flora and fauna here and reducing human pressures on the area.

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what were they welding on? >> oil pan. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> most of madagascar's french built rail network has crumbled into nothingness, but this train

still runs. >> look how it's painted. >> it's first class. >> yeah, yeah. >> we ride in style. how old is this train? [ horn ] wow, it works. >> oil pan worked. >> i hope that's not a pitying look i see on some of their faces. they're all looking at us like -- >> it's 162 kilometers to the one time major port town.

it's both the greatest thing ever, meaning a fantastically scenic emersion that most visitors never get to see and at times punishing crawl. for the majority of the 17 station stops along the line, this train provides the only connection to the outside world. people hop off and on, load and unload fruit, lychees, bananas. quite a few foreigners on board watch. >> can we get some peanuts? thank you. and there are vendors selling food and drink, which is a necessity since the supposed eight-hour trip is said to approach 18. >> all right. so we got a shaker.

we got an umbrella, champagne. you let the train pour for you. >> right. >> this is the lychee. >> that smells good. >> darren woke early and made the lychee puree for festive cocktails. >> wait, wait, wait. >> oh, yes. it's not bad. it's not bad at all. >> okay. it's a nice summery drink. >> the lychee makes it. >> the lychee makes it, yes. >> what do we call it? the golden lemur. >> the golden lemur.

♪ >> flashes of everyday life, the struggle to live, to eat, viewed from a moving train, then gone. >> different areas of madagascar are burning everywhere you can see. >> after seven hours or so -- >> we're coming into a town. >> -- the imperatives of food, any food, become ever more urgent. >> this is it. this is the stop. i am starving. >> i am so with you. look, this kid is wearing a

banana like a yamaka. >> the train of treats we were told would be here, it is what suboptimal. >> little did i know there would be a feeding frenzy. there's no papaya salad. everything's gone. here are some bananas. >> yeah, a few of those. >> yeah, merci. >> we get what we can. it's hard to complain about the lack of food options when you look around. >> lots of kids. want some? yeah, it's hard. >> this is nice.

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that's a disturbingly large spider. i would be happy if i saw that coming across my pillow. dude, it's a chicken or rooster. i tell you that lobster is smelling good. >> no, they're disgusting. they're like giant insects. what do they eat? >> corpses. >> dead things. >> you are such a debbie downer. >> you were born here. >> and your parents are from here. how far out do they go out? >> 50 miles. >> he goes out 50 miles in a little canoe? >> yes.

every day, every day. >> awesome. >> this is typical dish. green leaves, egg, plants, some spices. >> we bought a lot of food. this sort of spread is not an everyday meal in these parts. >> there's your veggie platter. there you go, man. >> now we have a piece of a shark. >> i said before 2000, but since then -- he says smaller fish. >> smaller fish? >> yes and the quantity smaller. >> that's a papaya salad. >> it's one of those days where the artifice of making television threatens to move dangerously into cruelty. >> what are you guys eating over here? >> who gets to eat and when becomes a pressing concern to the two of us?

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hallelujah. [ speaking foreign language] >> you blessed today. hallelujah. >> hallelujah. >> the book of revelation say whatever we do, god can see and he a take notes. [ speaking foreign language] >> i will destroy the city because all of the people are sinner. amen, hallelujah. hallelujah. >> hallelujah. >> the camera is a liar. it shows everything, it shows nothing. it reveals only what we want. often what we see is seen only from a window, moving past, then gone. one window, my window.

if you'd been here, chances are, you would have seen things differently. ♪ looking back, if you were editing this show, how would you tell this story? this is it. this is the food stop. i'm starving. >> i am so with you. that is quite a scene. lots of kids.

[ kids yelling] >> you always want a simple answer to everything to make it all make sense and it seems to -- i don't know, it's just constantly surprising. >> what can you see everywhere you go? in the office? in the market? people are still making sin. >> as a kid, i always wondered if i was good enough to get on the ark, so, i always empathize with the people who didn't make it. >> the animals come inside the big ship and all of the people dead but noah's family are safe. here is our ship. >> god decides to destroy creation ten generations after he created everything.

so, it must have hurt tremendously. >> god will choose us, like he choose noah. he will save us too. hallelujah. >> hallelujah. ♪ pray for madagascar, pray for yourself, pray for your family. pray. god will save madagascar.

♪ and vacation over, as we headed home to our regular beds. our daily lives, the school and homework and ordinary things. maybe my little brother, maybe i would wake up and look out the window at the night sky and suddenly it would fill with stars. and golden mist. and we would pretend for a second we were somehow deep inside the milky way. a million winking lights.